4/25/2008

Tasteless



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

4/17/2008

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?

12/20/2007

2008 Calendar

Cover Design



Computer Collage, is this about the next depletion of fossil fuel ressources? I don't know...


Fish in a museum? Wtf??!



The final result, entirely assembled & silkscreened by hand, 102 copies...

11/12/2007

11/11/2007

Studies for an album cover







Some detailed sketches for an upcoming book.
Researching in the classic european comic book type cover illustrations.

11/10/2007

Ballpen


Nothing in particular... just random ballpen sketches laying around on my table enhanced with computer coloring...

11/08/2007

Born Again


Scratchboard done a few months ago for the new CD cover of a local Black Metal band named Overmars.
This album titled "Born Again" consist of one long 40 minutes track, could be boring as hell but still, they manage to leave room for variation.



Enlarged details intended for the back cover.

10/11/2007

Filipiniana Again

BRAVE NEW WORLD

Yes, this blog space hadn't been updated since one month...
Thing is i've been maintaining another page dedicated to the Philippine punk scene from the eighties during last September.
There's lot of bands related information and old exotic Hardcore-punk albums to download.
Click on the pictures to access philippines80shardcore.blogspot.com


BRAVE NEW WORLD

9/08/2007

Classic Comics


The story -board...





This work is a bit different than what i'm usually doing.
It's for a 24 pages comics story that will be executed by eight different persons.
I took inspiration from John Buscema for the physical features and the excessive theatrical poses of the characters, even if the overall aspect is still stiff and static in the end...
Each artist have to draw a segment of four pages. Guess the final result will be quite unusual, as the artists involved in the project have very different techniques and graphic approach...
Should be published next month.

8/16/2007

Garden Gnomes

Done the August 12th in an open air rock festival.

Those angry garden gnomes keeping vigil could epitomize the latest European politics regarding illegal immigration.
from Wikipedia: The first garden gnomes were made in the town of Gräfenroda in Thuringia, Germany in the mid-1800s by Phillip Griebel. Griebel made terracotta animals as decorations and created the gnome based on local myths as a way for people to enjoy the stories of the gnomes' willingness to help in the garden at night. The garden gnome quickly spread across Germany and into France and England, and wherever gardening was a serious hobby. Gnome manufacture spread across Germany with numerous other large and small manufacturers coming into and out of the business, each one having its own particular style of design. World War II was hard on the industry and most producers gave up then. Griebel's descendants still make them and are the last of the German producers, all others having moved production to Poland or China.

The strip at dawn.

8/02/2007

Echo

Found this on flickr.com, Guess it's a gig happening in St Etienne, but i have no idea about that band's drummer which is wearing a pink wig. How tasteless is that?

Here's a better view of the background painting, done back in 1993, sizing 150 by 250 centimeters.

7/27/2007

Outdoor Summer Painting

Excerpt from a comic-strip painting done this July 24th.

Kids were busy and happy.

Another excerpt from a giant comic strip done on July 18th, made by four hands or more, there's quite an unexpected result. Is this the right-wing society favorite whipping boy getting spanked under the eyes of the public?

This is quite sad.

7/25/2007

Foreign publications


Ya salió el número 4 de la Suda Mery K! Habiéndola leído les puedo decir que es lo mejor que se está editando acá. Presten especial atención al especial monográfico de Ivan Brun, un autor francés venido del under galo. Impresionante.
Pero por si fuera poco, también hay buenas dosis de, entre otros, Saenz Valiente, el sorprendente Renzo Vayra, Marcelo Dsalete y un excelente artículo de Carlos Nine hablando sobre sus influencias locales. También en este número podrán encontrar la historieta "Espíritu de Cuerpo",
que hice junto a Dante Ginevra. Qué lindo es publicar en semejante companía.

Published in Argentina by Ex Abrupto
Available in comic book shops in Argentina, Bolivia and Chile.


IVAN BRUN & LIONEL TRAN OTAKU
Graphic novel • Een jong Japans stel strandt in Frankrijk tijdens hun tournee met een videoperformance. Ze doden de tijd met EXil, een verslavend spel waarbij je langzaam in een robot verandert. Ryu is geflipt als bedenker van games. Mui is verkoopster in een mangaboekwinkel. Collega’s van haar verdienen een centje bij met afspraakjes bij klanten thuis, verkleed als mangapersonages. Ryu en Mui zijn van een generatie zonder idealen. Schuilen in een virtuele wereld van games, anime en internet biedt hen een schamele troost.

“Your world reduced to a monitor screen… finger fucks a keyboard into extasy…”



IVAN BRUN ZERO
Korte strips • In de korte verhalen van Ivan Brun (1971) beginnen ze lekker, de jongeren uit de Franse banlieus. Maar het is midden jaren ’90 en ze struikelen over de recessie. Hun toekomst blijkt zo leeg als een woestijnlandschap, net als hun gevoelsleven. En langzaam vult hun vat zich met semtex, dat een explosieve uitweg zoekt…
Ivan Brun is actief in de underground scene van Lyon met muurschilderingen, publieke performances en zijn hardcore band Coche Bomba. Van Brun verscheen eerder Otaku, een coproductie met Lionel Tran.

Published in the Netherlands by Uitgeverij Xtra

Fear


Rough sketch painted on kraft paper back in 1999.
That drawing belongs more to the field of political cartoons than "Fine Arts" painting. The idea behind it wasn't precise at that time, looking at it now it looks like politicians at a G8 summit discussing developpement and global warming issues...haha

6/25/2007

Fear


Acrylic on cardboard,
done in 1995, relates to the Anti-Terrorist paranoïa from those years.