Hello! It’s kind of hard to believe it’s been a decade and a half, but this is an art print to mark 15 years of full time self employment making prints, posters, illustration, paintings, and other kinds of graphic art. This is a concept/composition from a very sold out 2009 art print entitled “Recovery’s For Suckers” from the beginning of my career, completely reworked for a special 2024 release.
The original “Recovery’s For Suckers” (pictured below) was released in January 2009 as a small 17x11” edition of approximately 25 that sold out overnight after an unexpected feature on the now defunct blog, OMGPosters.com. Shout out to Mitch Putnam!
This print was the first installment in a four part narrative series that was admittedly largely about a breakup I had gone through at the end of 2008. Sorta cringe now, but it was the success of this small print run that generated the motivation I needed to quickly complete the series and harness that little bit of momentum into making this kind of art my full time job.
In anticipation of the 15 year mark, I dug out an original print and one of the film positives used back in 2009. I scanned the film positive to use as a template to draw new guidelines that were true to the initial composition. That became the foundation for a total re-rendering of this image.
In 2008/2009, I had drawn the original with a fine point Sharpie, taken the drawing to Kinko’s and photocopied it onto an 11x17” transparency. The other two colors were hand cut from rubylith film. This was printed with my earliest screenprinting setup (predating me owning any drying racks; wet prints were appropriately hung “clothesline style” from binder clips with wire threaded through them and spanning wall-to-wall).
This was just something fun that I wanted to do to mark 15 years of this weird job I have. The release of “Recovery’s For Suckers” in early 2009 was a modest but significant turning point for me, so I wanted to revisit the image. The updated 2024 “Nostalgia’s For Suckers” is available in my store right now. Check it out if you’d like!
Also available are some limited AP copies of a recent poster for Dawes and Lucious’ recent co-headlining/collaborative show at The Caverns in Grundy County, TN.
Five color screenprint on Cougar natural cover, 18x24”, signed/numbered AP edition of just 15. $30. Available now!
In other news, I have just returned from Austin, TX where I participated in Flatstock 92. Much fun was had! I’m back in cold Chicago ready to draw more things, ship some mail orders, and wait for the sun to come out again.
That’s about it for now! I definitely have some more fun stuff coming soon, so I hope you’ll stick around. As always, feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, photos of your cat(s), etc.
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