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Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts

The Walking Dead Guitars & Accessories From Peavey With Artwork By Charlie Aldard.





A big hit at the Long Beach Guitar Expo and The NAMM 2013 Show was the newly licensed product line from Peavey Electronics® featuring graphics from The Walking Dead, the award-winning comic and TV show.





Designed for serious collectors and musicians alike by Peavey electronics, one of the world's largest manufacturers and suppliers of musical instruments and professional sound equipment, these new musical instruments will feature highly detailed artwork on guitars and accessories such as the straps and picks shown below.



Order The Walking Dead Zombie Guitar leather and Poly Straps here

“We are very pleased to be working with Skybound, the creators of The Walking Dead,” commented Hartley Peavey, founder and CEO of Peavey Electronics. “The immense popularity of The Walking Dead comic and cable TV show will allow us to get our products in the hands of an entirely new market and will expand our range of designs.”



Order The Walking Dead Characters Guitar Pick Packs here

Shawn Kirkham, Director of Business Development at Skybound Entertainment, added, “The merging of The Walking Dead’s iconic art and the equally iconic Peavey brand is a no-brainer. I’m excited to see fans and musicians strapping on guitars featuring gruesome Walking Dead artwork from Charlie Adlard. These guitars, straps and picks are going to look brutal!”


above: musician Nikki Stringfield with the Walking Dead Guitars

Below are prototype images of the guitars available. The actual products ship in July and will look more like the photographs shown above.

The Walking Dead Issue 100 Cover Rockmaster Electric Guitar:

This guitar will feature the cover art, shown below, from Charlie Adlard's Walking Dead Issue #100:


• The Walking Dead Issue 100 Cover Rockmaster Electric Guitar!
• Features the cover art by Charlie Adlard of The Walking Dead's issue #100 (shown above)
• Full-size electric guitar with a basswood body, maple neck, and rosewood fretboard.

Designed for serious collectors and musicians alike, this The Walking Dead Issue 100 Cover Rockmaster Electric Guitar from Peavy Electronics features The Walking Dead comic book artist Charlie Adlard's highly-detailed art seen on issue #100 of the comic book series. This guitar is a full-size electric guitar with a high-gloss finish of the cover of issue #100 on a basswood body that provides excellent balance and tone. The maple neck and rosewood fretboard on The Walking Dead Issue 100 Cover Rockmaster Electric Guitar enable fast rhythm and lead playing!

Order The Walking Dead Issue 100 Cover Rockmaster Electric Guitar here

The Walking Dead Michonne Rockmaster Electric Guitar:

This guitar features Charlie Adlard's cover art of Michonne from The Walking Dead comic book series:


• The Walking Dead Michonne Rockmaster Electric Guitar!
• Features an illustration by Charlie Adlard of Michonne from The Walking Dead comic book series. (shown above)
• Full-size electric guitar with a basswood body, maple neck, and rosewood fretboard.

Designed for serious collectors and musicians alike, this The Walking Dead Michonne Rockmaster Electric Guitar from Peavey Electronics features The Walking Dead comic book artist Charlie Adlard's highly-detailed art of Michonne from the series. This guitar is a full-size electric guitar with a high-gloss finish of Michonne on a basswood body that provides excellent balance and tone. The maple neck and rosewood fretboard on The Walking Dead Michonne Rockmaster Electric Guitar enable fast rhythm and lead playing!

Order The Walking Dead Michonne Rockmaster Electric Guitar here

The Walking Dead Riot Previews Rockmaster Electric Guitar:


above: Guy Dobson, Chief of Content for Southern Cross Austereo, with an actual photo (albeit blurry) of The Riot Walking Dead Guitars 

This guitar features Charlie Aldard's illustration of The Walking Dead shown below:


• The Walking Dead Riot Previews Rockmaster Electric Guitar!
• Features art by lead artist Charlie Adlard from The Walking Dead comic book series.
• Full-size electric guitar with a basswood body, maple neck, and rosewood fretboard.

Designed for serious collectors and musicians alike, this The Walking Dead Riot Previews Rockmaster Electric Guitar from Peavy Electronics features art from the lead artist in The Walking Dead comic book series. This guitar is a full-size electric guitar with a high-gloss finish on a basswood body that provides excellent balance and tone. The maple neck and rosewood fretboard on The Walking Dead Riot Previews Rockmaster Electric Guitar enable fast rhythm and lead playing!

Order The Walking Dead Riot Previews Rockmaster Electric Guitar here

Shop all the Peavey Electronics Walking Dead Items here

Original Art With A Side Of Fries. 38 Painted McDonald's Fry Containers by Ben Frost.





Australian artist Ben Frost is known for his kaleidoscopic Pop Art, mash-up paintings that take inspiration from areas as diverse as graffiti, collage, photorealism and sign-writing.




One of his fun series of works consists of acrylic paintings on McDonald's French Fry packaging. Happy Meal to Super sized, the familiar red and yellow Golden Arches containers feature hand-painted pop culture icons, Super Heroes, images reminiscent of Lichtenstein's pop art, Cartoons, Japanese Manga, Universal Iconography and more.





By subverting mainstream iconography from the worlds of advertising, entertainment and politics, he creates a visual framework that is bold, confronting and often controversial. With a blatant disrespect for the signifiers of our visual culture, Ben creates multi-layered surfaces of refreshing intensity.







About Ben Frost:


He has been exhibiting throughout Australia and internationally over the last 10 years, including solo shows in London, New York and San Francisco, as well as group shows in Beijing, Mongolia, Amsterdam, Berlin and Singapore.

A selected artist for the 2002 Primavera exhibition at the Sydney MCA, Ben was also guest speaker at the 2008 Semi-Permanent and AG IDEAS conferences throughout Australia.

His work has appeared in countless magazines and newspapers including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Oyster, WeAr, Monster Children, Ok!, HQ, Eyeline, Australian Art Collector, Broadsheet, and Art Monthly.  Television appearances include Rush TV 2010 (ABC3), The Apprentice 2009 (channel 9), The Barefoot Investor 2009 (CNBC), Sunrise 2008 (channel 7) and Today Tonight 2008 (channel 7).

In 2006 he co-founded the online art portal StupidKrap.com and also began and runs the international paste-up event ‘Paste Modernism.’

He currently lives in Sydney and operates Stupidkrap Studios, a multi-displinary art collective of 10 established and emerging artists in Annandale.

His work is in the collections of Kerry Stokes, Art Bank, Griffith University and numerous local and international locations.

text and bio from Ben Frost

Ben Frost Is Dead (his official website)

Two Comic Approaches To Breast Cancer Awareness. I Don't Mean Funny, I Mean Superheroes.




The news has just broken that Marvel Entertainment will be launching a month-long campaign in support of Susan G. Komen for the Cure® during National Breast Cancer Awareness Month with special variant covers on select October titles and educational material on Marvel.com.




Clad in Pink versions of their famous costumes, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Black Widow, Wolverine and more will be helping to increase awareness of the ways to fight—and reduce-- this risk of this disease.



The comic books, on-sale in October (US and Canada only) that will feature the special Susan G. Komen variant covers: AVENGERS #31, CAPTAIN AMERICA #18, CAPTAIN MARVEL #5, FANTASTIC FOUR #611, INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #526, MIGHTY THOR #21, UNCANNY X-MEN #20, WOLVERINE #315

Nobody's Immune To Breast Cancer


I can't mention 'Comics' and 'Curing Breast Cancer' in the same breath without sharing this wonderful ad campaign by DDB Mozambique with you.

Illustrated by Maísa Chaves, this four ad print campaign features famous female superheroes (She-Hulk, Wonder Woman, Storm and Catwoman):





The above ads feature the copy “Nobody’s immune to breast cancer. When we talk about breast cancer, there’s no women or superwomen. Everybody has to do the self-examination monthly. Fight with us against the enemy and, when in doubt, talk with your doctor.”

Full campaign credits:
Advertising Agency: DDB, Maputo, Mozambique
Creative Directors: Anderson Lima, Zeca de Oliveira
Creatives: Sara Vale, Christiano Vendramine, Erick Vasconcelos
Illustrator: Maísa Chaves (me)
Graphic producers: Faruk Issufo, Mauro Mussagy
Planner: Cristiana Oliveira
Accounts: Vasco Rocha, Christine Ramela, Fernanda Neves
Media: Khida Ismael"
Graphic producers: Faruk Issufo, Mauro Mussagy
Planner: Cristiana Oliveira
Accounts: Vasco Rocha, Christine Ramela, Fernanda Neves
Media: Khida Ismael"



Help support finding a cure, visit Susan G. Komen For The Cure and find out how.

Fictional Magazine Covers Combine Retro Superheroes and Pin-Up Girls.




Illustrator Des Taylor, who has a self-professed obsession with retro film and 50's pin-up girls, combined these interests to come up with a collection of fictional magazine covers.




His LIVE covers are a fictional magazine company he created that covers stories surrounding the people in and around the heroes of yesteryear. Superheroes, their romantic interests and their sidekicks are featured on faux issues dating back to the 50s, 60s and 70s.















The works will be showcased at KAPOW! London comic convention. Des claims that if he has the time, he'll do the Marvel Boys to finish off the set.

See more of his work at his blog and buy prints or originals here

a special shoutout to Joe Gaulzetti for bringing these to my attention.