CCD Interviews: Live From The Show Floor Of The 2014 NY Comic Con - Fat Guy Inc. Doing It BIG On The Main Floor!!!!

Most of the CCD gang is on the chubby side... we are proud of that. Hell, even the skinny guys down with our crew put on when it comes to throwing down food. It may be one of our favorite things to do as a group (especially Tommy & I). So when I came across an interesting looking artist booth with a couple of guys who look ALOT like me sitting behind it I had to walk over. And when I saw the name of the company... well, Fat Guy Inc. certainly has an appeal to a guy of my size!!!! Brendan & Peat are two Long Island residents that were  brought together through food... and now that they are a team, they are taking the art show/con circuit by storm! They have some great pieces, and the coolest part is that their styles are different but work well together at the same time. These guys are hysterical, and the art is pretty amazing. They refer to their collected works as 'an artistic stew', considering they have many different styles and mediums that they work with. One of my favorite pieces was a scene from Star Wars, which was after the destruction of Uncle Owen & Aunt Beru's house. The is a smoldering pile of what can only be assumed to be a Beru/Owen souffle, and Brendan refered to this piece as "A Tatooine BBQ". Hysterical... and all food related! These guys were great, so jump on over to their Facebook and Twitter pages and show 'em some love!!! Check out Tommy's interview with the fellas after the jump....



Some of the guys work from 2014 Comic Con:

Brendan's Fat Yoda (looks a lot like George RR Martin)

Peat's original sketch of Mysterio based on a Tarot Card

Squidward Sushi... 

  And the CCD Interview:

CCD Interviews: Live From The Show Floor Of The 2014 NY Comic Con - Artist 'SpaceWolf' And His Unreal Woodwork!!!

While we were cruising the show floor at the 2014 NY Comic Con we are always on the lookout for cool booths, and when we passed by the SpaceWolf booth on the edge of The Block we got just that. Awesome wood carved art... and a crazy vintage spacesuit to boot? Yup, the look and aesthetic of the booth got me to approach it from across the way. Then once I met the proprietor and struck up a conversation with him I was really intrigued. Original wood carved art, hand made in Brooklyn NY, and all pieces limited to a run of just 50 laser engraved pieces with the original being destroyed after? Yup, this was an interesting booth to say the least. The work was unreal, so pinpoint accurate and fine in the line work. And the subject material was quite awesome too... vintage spacemen, sea monsters, crazy flying ships, and all types of shit that we truly love fill the pieces that SpaceWolf has created. After the show, I went over to his website and saw even more cool ass pieces he has to offer... and some of those were much more pop culturally related. Chtulu and Battle Royale? Yeah, this is the exact way I like my art! They also create things like IPhone wood skins, laser engraved moleskin journals, and even necklaces & other jewelry. But the coolest part was helping to support the dissemination of a fellow Brooklynites fantastic artwork to a wider audience, which was truly our pleasure. Make sure you head over to SpaceWolf's website, and check out their cool ass Instagram by clicking here.   Check out some samples of his work and the video of us interviewing him live from the show floor after the jump...

Street Art Meets Super Heroes In Artist Dillon Boy's Work....

There is nothing I enjoy more than finding a cool artists work on Instagram or the Internet, no matter how late to the party I may be. Artist James 'Dillon Boy' Wright has been on the scene for a minute (his Obama 'Hope' poster concoction got him into Time Magazine way back in 2008) and I have seen a few of his pieces over the years. But I just found his Instagram page and was blown away by some of the work he had going on. He has a 'Western Grafitti' series that portrays some of your favorite superheroes in western style get-ups, guns a blazing. Then he has his crazy Disney princess re-creations, or his 'superheros meet real life' mash-ups like 'Nobody Likes The Thing' (my personal fave) which puts these extraordinary characters into real life situations (Thing is getting no likes or comments on Instagram... lol). His shit is dope... and like a typical creative artist he doesn't just stop at the actual artwork. If you look at the contents of his Instagram feed in grid format he takes close ups of his work and makes 6 and 9 square collages that supersize his pieces. A pretty great way to show of the detail of his pieces. So even though I may be a bit late to the party on Dillon Boy's work, it is never to late to give a cat his props when they are due. Check out his Big Cartel store, where you can cop some of his crazy cool art at a relatively cheap price for such a big shot artist. Check out my faves after the jump...



Western Graffiti series faves:

Superheroes with real problems:

Cap, Grid Style:

2008 Time Magazine article about Obama, Dillon's piece is circled....

    

Comic Book Quote Posters by G3N3S1S Studios

Reddit has be finding us some gold lately, most of it coming courtesy of my main man Joe Fletch and his obsessive surfing of the 'Net. Thank you sir. Anywho, G3N3S1S Studios is responsible for creating these awesome minimalist quote posters featuring some of the most popular characters in comic books, and boy are they pretty terrific. They mind all types of books and movies for the quotes, from classics like The Dark Knight Returns and more recent books like Batman & Robin. They quote the big guns like Bats, Cap & Wonder Woman... and also minor characters like Booster Gold, Cyborg, and Batgirl. These are just fantastic. You can see all that G3N3S1S Studios has to offer over on their Facebook page, and check out the full gallery of quote posters over at Imgur (38 in all). You can see my faves after the jump...

X-Men 50th Anniversary - 30 X-Men Throughout The Years

The X-Men are in the midst of a 50th anniversary celebration, and when you have been around that long you are sure to have undergone some changes. No way everybody is going to look exactly the way they did in the beginning. But how much have they actually changed? Iceman has gone from a giant snowman in the 60s to one of the coolest ice made figures in the history of comics. Beast has gone through some unreal changes as well... like furry changes! And how about Psylocke turning into Sasha Grey after all these years? Now that is an X-Men casting I would love to see! I must say, Mystique seems to be the one who has undergone the LEAST amount of changes... which is ironic, since her power is to change her appearance into anything she wants! All in all, these pieces are dope and encapsulate some of the greatest renditions of the X characters throughout the years. I am working on finding out who the artist is, but for now just enjoy these fantastic pieces as a trip down memory lane! Can you name them all????

 

Artin' It Up - 2013 All Horror Week Edition - Day #1

Tommy Lombardozzi is a great artist that I have worked with here at CCD since the very beginning. He is also a really great friend of mine. But watching him grow as an artist and expanding his artistic abilities to new mediums has to be one of the coolest things about collaborating with him in general. Tommy has always created awesome new pieces for All Horror Week (check here, here and here for some examples), and this year is no exception. He has created 5 new pieces, one for each day. The first piece tackles on of Universal's original horror icons. No... not Drac, or Frankenstein, or the Wolfman. No Creature or Mummy... nope. TL is taking on the baddest bitch of the classic Universal Horror movie universe: The Bride of Frankenstein!!! This piece is 10 x 8 and is done Marker, pen and pencil. Another great one, and not the usual subject matter that is usually highlighted when we see art inspired by the Universal classics. Check out the full piece after the jump, and check back every day this week fro a new piece from TL....

  

Postma Does The Ghostbusters

Once again Canadian artist Phil Postma finds a fresh and unique project to put his own personal design twist on them. This time he takes on iconic movie posters of the eighties and gives them a Ghostbuster theme - perfect for Halloween. And perfect for this years All Horror Week on CCD. Postma never disappoints, but these are on another level. Check them out after the jump...