Brave New World, Poitiers, pt 2

Views from the exhibit,
Paintings are melt with comic pages and propaganda posters with layers of a beautiful brown tape...

Brave New World pt 1

Preparing the exhibition.

Keep Dreaming...

Two pages for a collective album tackling great achievements done under 8 years of Bush administration...
In this sarcastic story, the Republican candidate wins the election, we'll see the result in three weeks, but who knows, american people are capable of doing incredible things!!!
No offense for U.S. citizens there, but, as far as i remember, the slandering campaign against France led by some U.S. and British media back in 2002/2003 was really funny too...

Vectores de la Muerte

Cover Illustration 01



Cover illustration 02



Inner Sleeve.

Illustrations for the next Coche Bomba lp called "Vectores de la Muerte" ( does it really means something? ) which
had been recorded back in 2002 before being released this year.
It should take the form of a double folded cover, quite unusual way for a record packaging. The thing will be printed and pressed for November.
Here's a short promotional text:

"Six years after the last studio session from Coche Bomba, the two fellas from Etoile Renoi & Raoul Prod. decided to unearth, remix and remaster the recording,
to press it on vinyl and wrap it up in a beautiful double folded sleeve. A different way to say punk is not completely dead... At last its corpse's still moving...

Coche Bomba were five jerks from Lyon starting playing fast, violent and distorted Hardcore Punk at the beginning of the Nineties.
Not that they were ahead of their time, but their quirky sound, machine-gun drumming, odd tempo changes, were not that common by French standards back then...
Instead of following trends or imitating bands, Coche Bomba rather developped its personal musical approach.
Lyrics, alternatively sung in French, English and Spanish dealt mostly with socio-political issues...
Despite being unappreciated and misunderstood in their early years, the band managed to gain recognition in the European H/C scene from the 90s.

After spewing out many different records gathered on the discography CD "5 years of trash guerilla", after a two-month tour in South America, and a farewell gig
in October 2003 opening for Dropdead in Paris, here's finally their last, unreleased full-lenght album.
Recorded in 2002, "Vectores de la Muerte" has 26 furious and relentless songs delivered in less than 27 minutes...

While the world dies, here are its last cries of despair."

Brave New World

Manually Separated Color, pencil on left and ballpen on right.


Poster for my next painting exhibition.
The thing will be held in Poitiers, hometown of the Fanzinothèque, a place which collects and files fanzines from all over the world since 1990.

The exhibit will be focused on an adaptation of Aldous Huxley s "Brave New World" updated by the Terrenoire collective.

The opening is planned for October 25th, and that will be a good opportunity for me to lay some noise in public.

No Comment

After being postponed and delayed many times, despite a rental expulsion, the publishing company being closed down in 2007... This long awaited album is finally out, fresh off the printing presses.

The original cover illustration.




a few glimpses from the pages, fortunately, the color quality of the print went out quite well.
The album will reach the bookstores shelves for September 17th.

Totenkopf

from the original design...

...to the final product.

This beautiful skull was made a few months ago for the punk band Vomit for Breakfast.

Speedball

click to enjoy a full detailed view...



My cover illustration for the comics fanzine Speedball, this third issue is centered on food... Expect the whole thing finished for January 2009, ready for the Angoulème international comics fair.

Richard Durn

Study

Front cover

Back Cover

Cover art for an upcoming Lp from the french punk band Richard Durn,
R. Durn is the name of a mass murderer who killed 8 people and wounded 17 people in the Nanterre's town council back in March 2002, mainly as a result of a terrible life of frustration... To avoid any connotation to violent imagery, i decided to opt for a more allusive and enigmatic subject matter...
Ooops, somebody's ringing at the door...

Viñetas Sueltas, again

Cover for a badly xeroxed fanzine compiling the contributions from the participants of my workshop. The main objective was adapting newspapers articles in a single comic page.


Young participants of an informal meeting at the youth center "Fundacion Defensores del Chaco", in Moreno, a neibourhood in the outskirts of Buenos Aires.
Info about the center here: www.defensoresdelchaco.org.ar


Drawing done on the spot at the said meeting...


Exhibition of my works at the Alliance Française of Buenos Aires. The Argentine edition from Lowlife sold well, couldn't even bring my own copies back!


Theater in Corrientes Avenue...

The first comic festival in Buenos Aires was a blast, that was a great opportunity to meet and discover the works from confirmed and aspiring comic artists from different parts of South America, as Lucas Varela, Alejandra Lunik, Marcelo Dsalete do Brasil, Paola Gaviria from Colombia, Jorge Perez Ruibal from Perù,
Salvador Sanz, Javier Suppa, Ernan Ciriani coordinating the festival along with mr.Thomas Dassance ,
Polaco Scalerandi and Gaston Souto from the crazy Lule Le Lele team, Julian Sequeira, Gustavo Sala, and many more that i forgot to mention...
Thanks again to the organizers and the cultural institutions who made it possible...

Viñetas Sueltas

The poster for the first international comic festival held in Buenos Aires from May 20th to May 24th. Art by Lucas Varela.
Details about the festival can be found there


Cover for the South American version of Lowlife that should be published soon...
More information later.

Pictobello 2008

Pictobello is an event happening in the streets of Vevey, Switzerland...



20 different artists had to realize an illustration on empty advertising billboards sizing 270cm x 130 cm during the day.

My finished piece, click on the picture for a full detailed view...





List of the participants, 16 Swiss and 3 French:

> Vincent Gravé (F)
http://vincent.grave.free.fr
> Soluto (F)
http://soluto.free.fr
> Emy Amstein (CH) 08
http://www.jagern.ch/bleistift/amstein_emy.html
> Louiza Becquelin (CH)
http://louizablog.com
> Christian Bovey (CH) http://www.jagern.ch/bleistift/bovey_christian.html
> Mathias Forbach (CH)
http://www.themes.ch
> Jo Germond (CH)
http://www.fotolog.com/jean_marc
> Karen Ichters (CH)
http://www.urka.ch
> Mathias Rihs (CH) http://www.jagern.ch/bleistift/rihs_matthias.html
> Ben (CH)
http://ben-illustration.blogspot.com
> Serval (CH) -Illustrateur.
http://www.monsieurlapin.com
> Walder (CH)
http://www.walderworld.ch
> Ivan Brun (F)
http://sickfuckermagazine.blogspot.com
> Sarah Haug (CH)
http://www.the-steak.net
> Joëlle Isoz (CH)
http://www.joelleisoz.com
> Valentin Kissling (CH)
http://www.kuhikuhi.net/valentin
> Emmanuelle Klaefiger (CH)
http://www.misska.ch
> Katia Orlandi (CH)
http://www.darksite.ch/katako
> Nicole Rossi (CH)
http://www.nicolerossi.ch

Tasteless

What this country needs right now is a deep aesthetic and cultural reform.

Summer Of Hope... Don't Mess with Real Estate

Street painting done with the Organic Comix collective in the streets of Evian, June 21st 2007, "Fête de la Musique"

Yes, we do really use those oversaturated colors... Fun to do at the very moment we're painting it, but it makes me want to puke when seeing the result a few months afterwards.

Same story adapted in a comic page that should be published next month in the Underground/Indie Rock magazine "Abus Dangereux".
Despite the commemoration of May '68 forty years anniversary, this is just a reminder to the young generations that it's much better and reasonable to leave the decisions about their future to the elders and the ruling class... Got the message kids?