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What is it with me and zombies? Whatever I am working on, there is always a zombie job somewhere in there… recently I had just finished a fairly high profile zombie job (don’t think I can share it just yet) and I had started working on several non-zombie projects. Before I could ask “why aren’t I drawing someone with their limbs hanging off?” I had a request for a poster/flyer for an event in my hometown called Zombie Prom. I guess zombies are so natural to me now that I went into automatic drawing mode and came up with this before I even knew what hit me. It was a neat, quick project for a no-trouble client… my favourite kind! In Birmingham you are never more that 10 feet away from a rat and I am never more than 10 minutes away from someone who want braaaains….

My band, Copter, had been planning to do a Warriors Revue for some time and this year it came to fruition.
Our good friend Mr. Radar made a 30 minute condensed version of the movie and we played along with the visuals creating a musical narrative, a kind of rock opera! For the event, I made subway tickets for entry, Warriors vests for the band (can’t take credit for the design there) and designed a poster with an old school Jack Kirby comic book feel, evoking imagery of the time in a way that hasn’t been used for the Warriors before (to my knowledge).
The whole thing was a fantastic success, with over 100 gang members turning up ,in colours, for Sirus’ big speech!

Poster for a ColdRice party, continuing the theme of comic book-esque soul singers

This is great going thru all my old files, found a bunch of pictures from the Pop which was an exhibition of gig poster art. I had around 10 pieces displayed, lots of ColdRice posters. For all the colours and painstaking hours I spent on some of the ColdRice posters, my favourite was always this Weird War poster I made which took about 10 minutes. Always the way isn’t it?

Yeeeears ago Levi’s comissioned me and my buddy Stef to do an instore painting at the opening of one of their stores. I decided denim, rock n’ roll, so I did a portrait of a girl who wants to be Iggy Pop and we surrounded it with printed confessions from groupies.
Here’s the initial sketch I did and some photos from the event. yeeeears ago and I still have the free jeans they gave me!