My cover for the incredibly awesome Frankenstein’s Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech’s Brave New Beasts by Emily Anthes.
Art Director: Rodrigo Corral at Farrar, Straus & Giroux (April, 2013. New York)
My portrait of Austin-based and guitar virtuoso Gary Clark Jr for Rolling Stone Australia. As it has become the rule for these portraits, I’ve included details from Clark’s favourite music albums to create the 21st piece of what it’s been informally named ‘My Record Collection” series.
Romy Madley-Croft, from The XX.
Rolling Stone Australia (Feb., 2013)
Check out Brooks Peck’s awesome short fiction “Tony Cattone and The Blue Moon Ransom” in the upcomingHowler Magazine Nº002.
Double-page illustration by yours unholy.
Howler Magazine (NY, Jan., 2013)
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Behold Howler Magazine Number Deux covered by yours unholy and praise your favourite magazine on this god-forsaken green earth!!!
Amen
(65% less scandalous than last time)
Howler Magazine (NY, Jan., 2013)
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A man called E—Mark Oliver Everett—from Eels.
Rolling Stone Australia (Jan., 2013)
If you know me at all, you’d know I’m a sucker for old EC-esque comic book cover aesthetics (think ‘Crime SuspenStories’ or even ‘Tales from the Crypt’), so when I was commissioned by Editora Ática in Brazil to illustrate the cover of their upcoming edition of ‘Um Estudo em Vermelho’ (‘A Study in Scarlet’), the first of the titles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, I knew exactly what I wanted to do.
One of the biggest challenges here was to create three different sets of typefaces that would clearly differenciate what was meant for the reader to see—the book’s title and author—and what was part of the meta-character of the cover itself (note it’s a cover within a cover). Research also became an unbelievably useful tool as it helped me to achieve one of the main goals I had for this project which was to depict Sherlock Holmes in a more realistic way. For example, I learnt that curved pipes weren’t trending at the time the story takes place but were introduced later when the first Sherlock Holmes plays were presented on stage. Curved pipes allowed theatre light technicians to illuminate better the actor’s face without creating the annoying shadow casted by a regular pipe. And the hat… one way or another I had to get rid of that stupid hat we were used seeing Holmes with! So I told the editors there was no reason for the greatest detective ever (sorry Batman!) to be wearing a hunting cap in the middle of mean, ol’ London, that it was plainly ridiculous as he wasn’t chasing foxes in the English country-side. That did the trick. Regarding the three interior illustrations (available here), I was explicitly told not to be literal so my intention was to reference elements of the story that I thought were meaningful without being too descriptive. When you read the book, and I hope you do as it contains a wonderfully written revenge story, you’ll know exactly what they represent without having them interfering too much with your imagination’s role. Hope you like them.
My portrait of Bob Mould for Rolling Stone Australia. (Dec. 2012) / Rolling Stone magazine, Australia.
Ho-Ho-Ho, mofos! My cover illustration for the nearly-there Munsterama XXX-Mas catalog Vol.31! Tune in, request your free copy and get a load of your fav records this holiday season. www.Munsterama.com
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Basque Country, Dec. 2012
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“Elect me so I can help the neediest—especially my own family.”
My take on Francisco Everardo Oliveira Silva a.k.a. Tiririca—or Grumpy in English—, the “semi-literate, cross dressing, potty-mouthed” clown that ran, and got elected, for Brazil’s House of Deputies in 2010.
Art director: Robert Priest.
Reuters Magazine (New York, Nov.-Dec. 2012)
My portrait of Slipknot’s Corey Taylor for the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone Australia. (Nov. 2012) / Rolling Stone magazine, Australia.
November, 2012.
So this one was conceived with a different purpose but as the project* for it was intended never really solidified for me I thought there was no point in letting this sort of sequential narrative attempt rot in a drawer.
Finally, feel free to enjoy it with the soundtrack that accompanied the whole process—from conception to execution. So without further ado, allow me to reintroduce in your life the always glorious Three Suns!
* A very noble one, I may add!
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