TODAY'S FEATURED POST
The Art of Doing Business
[caption id="attachment_78985" align="aligncenter" width="1032"] "have a TINY glass of coke or get WHIPPED!" says Santa[/caption] Happy holidays everyone! Figured I'd keep things going with another story this month. This one's about how gloriously the artists' naivety can be taken advantage of in the cut throat world of business. also thought it would be nice to pepper it with some sweet seasonally appropriate Haddon Sundblom paintings. It was early 2005. Our little studio was young, going…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Seven Eternal Truths and The Sons of Liberty
December 9, 2024 - Sometimes without warning, a dream job appears, something you’ve always wanted to do. An opportunity to do a subject that’s become a permanent resident of your imagination, by one of your favorite artists. Mondo is releasing the soundtracks to the Metal Gear Solid series on vinyl, and somehow, I was tasked with doing the gatefold art to MGS2: Sons of Liberty. Now, I wouldn’t call myself a gamer, but I would say that MGS is somewhere up there with Hellboy when it comes to fictional works I’m the most fond of. A lot has been said about the series; it’s influence, genius, weirdness- there’s nothing really like Metal Gear Solid. The most striking feature of the world of MGS to me has always been its ridiculously overpowered concept artist, the inimitable and immortal Yoji…
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