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Hey You! We’re back!

Monday, May 11th, 2009

It’s been a while since I’ve done a post. With the Cinemapocalypse tour going on and then other projects cooking, I haven’t had much time to do much posting. I have been twittering though. You can follow us at www.twitter.com/mondonews. If you would’ve been following us there, you would’ve known that we put the remaining metal variant Tyler Stout Robocop posters up for sale. If you want one, you better do it now because we have like one or two left and then they are GONE.

We did a ton of stuff on the Cinemapocalypse tour and I know it’s kinda late, but I figured I’d give a quick top ten of things we saw, learned or did…in no particular order.

1. While driving to the theater in San Francisco, I saw a dog peeing on another dog.

2. In San Francisco, packs of wild nudes roam free in the streets.

3. Unknowingly, I offered to eat Sissy Spacek’s leftover food in LA.

4. Roswell, NM isn’t a fun town like you’d think it would be.

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5. Phoenix is the weirdest place in the U.S. Within five minutes, we took the famous black wrestling picture, watched a newscast about exploding rodents and a fir tree growing in a guys lung and talked to a junkie who was on a mission from God to find a VHS copy of HOWARD THE DUCK. No joke.

6. Clu Gulager is one of the nicest guys you could possibly meet.

7. Eddie Deezen isn’t acting. He’s playing himself…and that’s a very good thing!

8. The three of us looked like junkies the way we were digging through boxes of VHS tapes in a small town McDonalds parking lot. The guy promised us 17,000 videos, but was off by 16,800.

9. Unfortunately, comic book back issues and video stores are becoming  things of the past.

10. At one point during the trip, Zack and Lars somehow convinced me that if you used the urinal in this weird little town and there was a man in the stall beside you, he’d try to reach over and grab your penis. I must’ve been tired because I believed them.

-Justin

Are you Covered?

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Just got turned onto Covered today. Covered is an awesome blog where artists re-interpret comic book covers ranging from Ditko/Kirby sci-fi series’ to Mignola’s Rocket Raccoon. Jon Vermilyea totally made Venom look good! Check the blog by clicking on VENOM!

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Top Secret Star Trek Promos Revealed!

Monday, April 6th, 2009

It’s times like this that I’m happy eyes exist.

About two months ago, we here at Mondo got a call from Paramount Pictures. Turns out,  they are fans of ours! They had taken notice of the quality of  the Poster Series and also of the artists that we use and wanted us to recommend some that we thought could turn in AMAZING artwork.  In addition to the traditional big studio promotional push, Paramount wanted to get creative and have artists reinterpret STAR TREK with their own specific style. We were thrilled to collaborate on a part of this innovative venture and I think you’ll really be happy with the results. I know we are!

Mark Todd is doing a ton of shirt designs lately. First, the new Badass Cinema shirts, now the Enterprise!

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It’s probably good that I haven’t met Jesse Phillips yet. When I do, I’ll probably just stutter and stammer all slack jawed and embarass myself. He’s one of my favorites! Remember the IRON MAN poster Jesse did for us?  He totally raged on this poster featuring the Enterprise:

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Hmmmm…there was one other guy that did a poster for them….who was it again? Oh yeah…TYLER STOUT! Can you imagine what this thing is going to look like?! At the time of me writing this, artwork isn’t available, but I’ve been promised to get a copy of it in the next few days. I’ll be posting it here as soon as it’s available.

Paramount also had a few of our celebrity Austin homies design their very own Enterprise models. First up is Ain’t It Cool News’ head honcho Harry Knowles’ ship:

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They also had that troublemaker Robert Rodriguez do one:

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Also, veteran Alamo poster artist Bobby Dixon designed an Enterprise model for the promotion. We’re expecting photos of the finished model soon and will post them here when we get them!

If you’re like me, you’re most likely a half inch away from the computer screen trying to pick out detail on these models. Don’t you worry. If you come to the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar starting Monday, you’ll be able to see all of this and more in person!

You didn’t forget about us showing WRATH OF KHAN and ten minutes of the new STAR TREK did you? You can find information on the screening here and if you can’t make it to the show, you can see models from other designers here.

Thanks to Paramount for involving us on this project and a very special thanks to OMG Posters and Rob Jones for their help.

-Justin

Don King: American Hero

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

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Don’t know enough about Don King? Did you know that he’s known for “Givin’ out turkeys smack dab in the hood?” I didn’t either. Watch this informative rap video about Don King and get your learn on.

ONLY IN AMERICA!

Jon Vermilyea Store Open!

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Alright…this is exciting.

I just went to Jon Vermilyea’s site and he has updated it with a brand new store that has about six or so incredible prints for sale. His Johnny Quasar stuff is definitely my favorite. Why haven’t vinyl figures been made of this stuff? I’m totally grabbing the MUDMAN print. He also has prints of the Mothman that he did for Fantagraphics’ BEASTS! BOOK 2 for sale.

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I may have mentioned this in an earlier post or Twitter message or something, but Jon sent me early 2009 Fantastic Fest poster art yesterday. This poster is going to RAGE! Monsters gone wild!

-Justin

MUTO by BLU

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

I saw this in the Fantastic Fest animated shorts program last year. Press play…It’s amazing.


MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Speaking of Fantastic Fest, I got an email from Jon Vermilyea today with a sketch of the 2009 poster and it is looking crazy! It’ll be out of control in 3D.

-Justin