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The Dark Knight Prizes

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So I haven’t seen the new Batman movie. No one has! Christopher Nolan won’t even show his Mum. She asked to see The Dark Knight one week before the release date so Nolan Inceptioned her and planted the idea that SHE SHOULD SHUT UP AND BUY A TICKET LIKE EVERY ONE ELSE!

So, like Mamma Nolan, I won’t be able to see The Dark Knight Rises until the day it comes out, I may however see it the minute it comes out at a special midnight screening provided I win a fan-boy poster competition run by Dendy Cinemas. The top eight fan-made posters get exhibited for two weeks at the new Newtown Dendy Cinema and I get a prize-pack of Batman stuff and two tickets to see all three movies in the picture theatre (Picture theatre? Who am I, my Dad?) with The Dark Knight Rises playing at 12:01 AM.

As I don’t know much about the new movie I can only imagine that the villain, Bane, is a giant paratrooper with a snorkel who was brought to America in chains from his native Africa and forced to perform in off-off-Broadway shows until he escapes and tries to eat all of the native bats in Gotham… That’s how Mamma Nolan explained it to me anyway.

Here is my submission: SPOILER ALERT – I won!

Radio Star Avoids Video’s Thirst for Blood in the year 3033!

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The Year: 3033

The place: Sydney, Australia

The population: ZERO! Maybe zero… We haven’t looked very hard yet. I mean, I just went to Homebush where the Sydney Olympics were 12 years ago and that place is a freaking ghost town. This place is quieter than a John Cage encore. I dropped $20 and no one picked it up. It just blew away so I threw the rest of my money on the ground and after that blew away I transferred all of my savings to a Nigerian businessman, drank poison and watched the Big Momma’s House trilogy. THE FUTURE IS BLEAK MY FRIENDS!

“Earth 3033” is a radio play series by L. J. Ike who also wrote a series of short stories called “The Third Man – And Other Stories”. I have designed the cover design for both works. Here is the latest design for Earth 3033…

To listen to Ike’s first two episodes you can check them out here.

You can also check out his writing here.

Hulk Smash Expectations!

Design

So it’s your friends birthday and you still haven’t got them a present? You need to get your act together man!

I forgot to get my friend Freddy Friendshipson a birthday present last year and after I told him I had bought his present (I hadn’t) and it was in the mail (it wasn’t) he was rummaging though my letterbox on a daily basis. Turns out that it wasn’t in order to see if I was lying but instead he was committing major identity theft and the next step was stealing my skin so he could wear me like a full body glove and get all the perks that come with being me… like owning a full license and having a perfect library record (you can’t get late fines if you never borrow books! Suckers!). Buuuuuuut  after I gave Freddy one of these personalised comic book covers where I drew him as Mystique from X-Men he felt a little bad about the whole identity/skin theft thing and we are good now. RIGHT FREDDY?!…

The image above is my latest personalised cover done for actor Bjorn Stewart. I secretly found out a few things that make him hulking mad and incorporated it in to the design. I then made him a lot greener and added a few more muscles and hey presto! He received a very cool, very personal birthday present. Get one today!

EVERY DAY HERO

Design, This is Interesting

Superman is not the best thing for Metropolis. Ever notice that all the other major cities remain somewhat untouched but the one he lives in gets the crap beaten out of it? The Mayor of Metropolis is spending so much of the budget rebuilding the city that the the arts and schools get almost nothing. The homeless population get no support from the council and to make matters worse it’s really hard to actually see the homeless population of Metropolis because they are all dressed in suits, suits donated by an anonymous benefactor who leaves them in phone-booths all around town. Let’s face it, the best thing Superman does for Metropolis is clothing the homeless.

So if you want a real hero you should meet Sally Gyles. Sally is traveling to India to get kids out of child labor and in to schools. She needs help fundraising so if you flick her a few bucks you will in turn be helping give some really destitute kids a future. Sally is doing much more than leaving suits in phone booths. Check out her blog:

www.everydayhero.com.au/sally_gyles

The image below is the artwork I created for Sally’s business cards. Sure it’s a little dark but so are some of the factories children have to work in.

How did Clark Kent afford that many suits? He was just a reporter who rarely went to work.

Who’s the Monolith Now?!

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The design featured above is of three ‘characters’ from Stanly Kubrick films. The design is of Jack (The Shining) and Alex (A Clockwork Orange) beating the astro-crap out of the Monolith from 2001-A Space Odyssey so much that that shiny brick will think it’s 2010 again – The Year we Make Physical Contact. The design is called ‘Kubrick’s Killers’ and to all of you who question who the Monolith killed please remember that Hal would have never had the opportunity to kill a small crew of spacemen if the monolith didn’t kill all of these scientists on the moon –  N00B! Nobody thinks of the scientists!

…also Monolith hates being photographed with space tourists.

I’ve Got It Covered

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This yin-yang of bat-bird is a book cover I designed for author Fleur Guenther. It was great to sit down with Fleur after reading an excerpt from her novel and discuss what she wanted for the cover art.

So Fleur informs me that this is some kind of internet book. She says I can read her book or any other book on my computer – Even Vin Diesel’s autobiography “In Like Vin”. She says I can read it anywhere at anytime. That’s all well and good Fleur but how the funk am I supposed to lug my Commodore 128D to the beach to get my daily fix of sea air and Vin musings or as I like to call it ‘Diesel Fuel’?

If you want to download Fleur’s book here is the link

Vin Diesel is set to bring out a second autobiography after the success of Fast five called “Next of Vin”.

Spock and Lock

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What I love more than Spock is a good Spock pun. What I love more than Popping and Locking is almost anything – Only because when I try to do it people call ambulances. Popping and locking is a kind of dance Mum, it’s very popular with the kids… it is. No it’s not a chiropractic thing. Gosh! Jeez Mum why aren’t you cooler! Jimmy Neighbourman’s mum is really cool she plays Skyrim!… HOW DO KNOW WHAT THAT IS?!
You can buy this design as a T-shirt here.

Happy Birthday – You Just Became My Hero.

Design, Painting

So, is it your birthday coming up? Why not get a personalised comic book cover why not! You will have to ask your friends to contact me with some pictures of yourself and you will first have to be a really good friend to deserve something this cool.

The design featured above is a hand painted design I did for my friend Nick’s Christmas present. He always wanted to see what it would look like if a non-fictional character tried to blast his fictional ass away! He also asked if I could find someone with a similar last name just to make it interesting.

Or for those of you that just want a very specific gift to give, you could get this for your very deserving, very non-fictional friend. Just contact me and we can talk shop.

Excelsior!

Ed

Bumi Manusia Everyone!

Design

The Ubud Writers and Readers Festival is on again this year October 3-7. The festival is held in Ubud which is a town in central Bali. This year they held a poster competition and the poster featured above is my entry. If I win you will all hear about it and if I don’t I might go back and delete this post and pretend this all never happened and then after all that I’ll probably go upstairs and cry in the shower with my clothes on.

Fingers crossed!