Artist Bios
Jeral Tidwell
I've been drawing since birth. Parents are crazy and I am too. Learned to paint, I love to paint. Professional (Yea right) artist since 1988, always will be. No college, just work - I learn Everything the hard way and like it. Airbrushes, paintbrushes, pens, pencils, cameras & Computers, I love 'em all and use 'em all. Had a creative drought - met my soul mate, Ahhh...Peace of mind, it's flooding now. Work for rock stars - Doin' posters and CD covers. Art shows from LA to NY, in books and magazines too. I love Tattoos, stickers, cats, dogs, dirt, small tits, nice asses, trees, and flowers. Been drawing like a mad man, I can't wait to see what's next. Jeral's work has been featured in The Art of Modern Rock, Panda Meat: Source Book 1 and Swag 2 : Rock Posters of the '90s and Beyond. To see more of Jeral's work go to www.humantree.com.
Posted On: Thursday, December 28th, 2006 @ 9:37 pm by Smitty
Scott Fisk
Scott Fisk is a Professional Hot Rod Illustrator from central Vermont. He owns and operates an illustration studio called “Studio 669”. From this studio Scott launched “CAR-TOONER.com” exploiting his unique style of automotive illustration. Graduating from Butera School of Art, Boston class of 1992 Scott has been a sign pro/mural artist ever since. Yet it’s Scott’s pencil and ink skills that keep him in demand! His insane and unique illustrations have been featured in such syndicates as Ol Skool Rodz , Car Kulture Deluxe, Hot Rods Illustrated, Rodders Digest, DRIVE!, Kustoms Illustrated, Smokin Shutdown (Berlin, Germany), Street Low , LAID, and Speed Machines just to name a few! Considering the fact that Scott does his illustrations’ totally from his left fingertips unassisted by computers gives him an “Old School” quality making him a rare commodity. Because of this he is HIGHLY sought after in this “Kulture Scene” As well as freelance work for individual clients, all along maintaining the “IN YOUR FACE!” style that 669 is well known for. Scott stems his style from a new breed of illustrator, where “old” is “new”. “There was a time when everything fell off of finger tips, and not keyboards. I do it the way it used to be done. As time goes on there will be less of “us”, and I REALLY dig those odds! There will come a time when there will be 5000 graphic designers out there to 1 ol’ skool artist, yup I like them odds alot. I like having nothing to hide behind except the swipes of my prismacolors’. Yet when I need that “assistance”, I have a designer that I totally trust to assist me.” Scott also does his best to stay UN~influenced by other artists’ maintaining his own style and direction. “I don’t want to look like everyone else, I want to look like Scott Fisk from 669 in Vermont.” However there are some artists’ out there that Scott really digs. “I think that Max Grundy and Lance Sorchick are pretty incredible artists’, they are so dynamic and raw! Everything they do has PUNCH to it.” Studio 669 is ever changing and constantly evolving. “As artists’, we are to evolve, that’s our mission our “genetic” characteristic. We NEVER settle for the same everyday, that’s why we are artists’” Check out Scott at www.car-tooner.com. or MySpace.com/Studio 669 Make sure to tell him that POSTERBOMB sent yer ass there!
Posted On: Friday, August 01st, 2008 @ 7:01 pm by Smitty
Rob Schwager
After discovering punk rock during the early 80's, Rob Schwager designed album covers, t-shirts and flyers for various punk bands in Chicago. This led to abundant work as a silkscreen concert poster artist, supplying hand crafted promotional posters to bands and venues across the country. In the early 90's, he fulfilled a childhood dream and became an artist working on mainstream comic books. He's spent the last 15 years of his life working on such classic icons as Spiderman, Superman, Batman, and the X-men, and his work has helped shape comic book pop-culture as we know it today. Rob Schwager has most recently been featured in The Art of Modern Rock and is credited as being a well respected rising force in the art of color for the comic book industry. He views the shrinking world and the society around him as an ever-growing battle between good and evil. He creates imagery that encompasses his own journey of faith while enabling him to take a break from the turmoil of day-to-day life and reconnect with the dreamer he was as a child. To see more of Rob's work go to www.robschwager.com.
Posted On: Thursday, December 28th, 2006 @ 9:38 pm by Smitty
Chainsaw Chuck Majewski
I am Commercial ILLUSTRATOR , Commissioned Illustrator, and recently a gallery artist doing what I've always done, but now on Canvas. , I may also be contacted at chainsawchuckxxx@yahoo.com I've been drawing for more years than I've been alive? I was born in Chicago and moved to Florida when I was 11. I was raised on a steady diet of Coffee and Warner Brothers Cartoons. One character I received from an old GumBall Machine in the 1960s was also an influence. It was a plastic Rat Fink. I collected stickers and any art I could find with him, and other assorted Weirdos. Years later, I pursued Commercial Illustration. I created the Subway Subman Super Sandwich character, A Sexy Babe Hula Girl for Lost Enterprises, some animation for MTV (which Viacom recently removed from YouTube ) as well as assorted illustrations for children's books, ad campaigns, promotional t-shirts, giant stage sets , pinups and just about anything that needed artwork. In the early 1990s I worked with Ed "Big Daddy" Roth and Jimmy (C) Cleveland on Rat Fink Comics. That coincided with my Kustom Kulture themed paintings. Through the Rat Fink Comix assignment, I got to meet and thank many of my early influences: Ed Roth, Robert Williams and Stanley Mouse. Through the years I also did get to meet and thank Chuck Jones, Ray Harryhausen, John Kricfalusi, Forry Ackerman, and Dave Stevens. I have also created pinup designs for t-shirts and prints and private commissions, Some of the work I created as a pin-up artist can be seen in the pics section. Message me for another site of my personal work. Recently, I started a company: MadTiki Gear ( www.madtiki.com ) to place my designs on shirts. . I have also been creating a few designs for our local public Community Based FM Station 88.5 WMNF. Thanks, Chainsaw Chuck Majewski.
Posted On: Thursday, October 30th, 2008 @ 6:42 pm by Smitty
Angryblue
Being 1/3 of Monument Studio, 1/2 of Crackhead Press and having a side gig of daily attempts to take over the world is a pretty hoppin' business. Through Monument and his own efforts, he's partially responsible/to blame for keeping Hot Topic in business through rock merchandising and draws more skulls in a week than you have buried under your house. You can check out more of Justin's work at www.angryblue.com.
Posted On: Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 @ 12:46 pm by Smitty
Johnny Ace Studios
Johnny Ace not only earned his "Official Rat Fink Artist" title from Ed "Big Daddy" Roth for 20 years of loyal service, but continues to honor the spirit of Roth Studios in his work. He was one of the originators of the punk flyer/poster art form and has worked in such varied fields as the skateboard industry, comics, toy prototypes, computer games, and too much more than this space will allow! He counts as inspiration such legends as Ed "Newt" Newton, Mouse!, Wally Wood, Eric Stanton, Johnny Craig, Basil Wolverton, Tom Kelly, Basil Gogos, Tom Sutton, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, and others. Kali Verra's artistic range includes traditional pinstriping, graphic design, glamour and fx makeup, airbrush, animation, sculpting, and more. She was taught the pinstriping trade by Roth and used a mach brush, given to her by him until it was "on it's last three hairs". Kali draws inspiration from such varied sources as Kenneth "Von Dutch" Howard, and Ed "Big Daddy" Roth; to William S. Burroughs to the unwholesome trinity of Bava/Argento/Fulci... she also has a soft spot for the hokey side of the occult. To see more of their work go to www.acekustoms.com.
Posted On: Thursday, December 28th, 2006 @ 9:38 pm by Smitty
Mike Martin
Columbus' own master printer and Rock poster artist Mike Martin lives a life we would all love to live, not for it's ease or prestige, but for its loyalty to individual happiness. I've worked and designed with big companies like Nike; says Martin. "I started out doing advertisement artwork when I was in a band back in the day called Bazooka Joe. I got tired of the road and knew I needed to get out and do my own thing. Finally, it was my wife that made me rethink what I was doing and decide where I wanted to go. I went from a shark in a small pond to an ameba in an ocean."Clearly beaten and sore from a long thirteen-hour night of hand printing hundreds of original silk-screened posters, Mike Martin still sports a devilishly happy smile. "If you've never done this work before," says Martin, "you'll never know it as a labor of love." As the owner and operator of Enginehouse 13, the company that sells the original poster art he creates all around the world, Martin never stops working. In addition to the commissioned work he does on a regular basis for venues like Promo West, Martin, along with some of his fellow local and national artists, set out to revive the publice's understanding and appreciation for the lost artof "Gig Art" (a.k.a. Poster Art). Now that the book The Art of Modern Rock (published by Chronicle Books, ), which features him and hundreds of other well-known artists and their work, is in every public library in the nation, they've succeeded.
Posted On: Thursday, December 28th, 2006 @ 9:38 pm by Smitty