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Just a little doodad about vinyl fairs / hardcore collectors for FFWD out in Calgary. Keep your eye’s peeled for this week’s upcoming issue as well, as I’ll have illustrated the cover for that one – Summer Guide!

Yup. It’s been a while. So to make up for it I want to begift you. More specifically, one of you. Or better even, the first of you. Playing off of the idea of the monthly contest day found on Raymond Biesingers The Daily Sentry (hands down one of the best illustrator blogs out there), I will mail out a copy of both falklands EPs, which I’ve created minor packaging for, to the first person to comment on this post. Easy as that! So you if you enjoy good local Edmonton rock and leaving comments on blogs, you can expect to see their two CD EPs, one of them fresh off the boat, in the mail!

Currently on the table keeping me busy: Some work for the Globe and Mail, due out tomorrow (you can see Genevieve’s today!). Once again, a few illustrations in the making for Euroman out in Denmark, and of course, working on chapter 2 of We Hate This Place Here; It’s Our Home.

Been so lazy. On another note, a wee poster made before the holiday for Stacy Lloyd Brown’s annual holiday show. It was good and you missed out. More to come soon.

Long time best friend Stacy Lloyd Brown, from Musical Chair Music, frequently asks me to make posters, packaging, and other paraphernalia for his things musicallly inclined. This here is a poster for his upcoming tour with fellow group, Machinery. We all originate from Grande Prairie, AB.

This poster is also a tribute to the great Tom Eckersley, famous poster designer for The Underground in London,UK. Can you find out which poster of his I am sniping from?

100% Alberta Beef is a two artist noise EP released on cassette by my good friend Peter Redecopp, a.k.a. RDC, and his pals ACID ATTACK. They asked me if I would be willing to whip up some art for their big collaborative release, and I gladly complied. The only visual request on their behalf was to have a really fat guy on the cover, with a really small penis. Simple enough.

They plan to turn this into a rubber stamp and manually hand-print each copy onto some form of a yellow card stock, perhaps with some red ink. When I see a physical copy of the final package, I’ll show you!

The LIARS posters that I was babbling about in the last blog post are now up for sale at the International Beauty Saloon online store. They are being sold as a set.

Also up for purchase on the site are Genevieve’s lovely posters she made for The Breeders (as seen below).

Happening tonight at the ARTLIFE Gallery in Calgary is the Sled Island Music Festival Poster Show. Every year a select number of artists are asked to design posters for some of the festival’s “bigger” acts, and this year I was lucky enough to be asked to do the posters for one of my favourite bands of recent times, Liars.

These are three colour serigraph prints made by hand by yours truly. These are printed on lovely 15″x 20″ Stonehenge paper. Sexy!

Liars’ first show is an early evening show on the 26th of June, where they play at about 8pm at an outdoor venue, thus the orange sunset / hue in the print. The next night they play a more “all ages” show, on the 27th at 1 am, therefore a night scene. Each of the posters come in editions of only 50. I will be at both Liars shows with these posters for sale. They will be going for $20 a pop! If you can’t make it to the concerts themselves, go to the ARTlife gallery tonight and scoop one up. They are selling at the gallery for $30 per print, and they only have 5 of each, so there’s a chance that they won’t last long!

This here is a poster I made recently for Edmonton’s No Hands. We weren’t sure if it was their last show or not… so we added a question mark to keep it open.