Kandy Coated Kackles: 13 Mixtapes for Halloween!

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So I know its a bit late for Halloween (my absent minded-ness forgot to post on here) so sorry about this but I want to share what I was doing for the last 13 days of October. Each day I posted one Halloween mix tape with cover art by me! So that means 13 mix tapes chock full of crazy, spooky, kooky, rockin, jammin' music for Halloween that go beyond Monster Mash and the Ghost Busters theme! I've been collecting this kind of music for about 7 years and I finally felt it was time to share my collection with everyone. Even though Halloween has passed, I hope these mixes get ya excited for it next year! And keep an eye out next October for volume 14. Download them here and check the track listings over at my blog! Enjoy and happy haunts!

It's Strange. It's Kooky. It's Even a bit Spooky.

 STRANGE KIDS CLUB (www.strangekidsclub.com)

October is already well upon us and as the Fall chill begins to take hold, all of the ghouls are coming out to play... including one peculiarly blue-haired, hell-raising fiend: Strange Kid! That's right, Strange Kids Club is proud to announce the special Halloween Edition of its Strange Kid Comix Magazine which features work by some of our very own fellow Autumn Society members.

Sporting a spooktacular cover by monster maker extraordinaire David Hartman this issue continues SK’s tradition of "combining immature, gross out humor with a crazy love for pop culture parody" with brand new comics by creators Aaron Klopp, Brian Fyffe, Christine Larsen, Craig Collins, Keith Allen, Glen Brogan, German Orozco, Sean K. Dove, Keith Allen, Neil Camera, Smo, Beans and Bueller and Zach Bellissimo.

It even includes two, extra special cut-out Monster Masks by David Hartman and Keith Allen for spine-tingling Halloweenie fun (not to mention a few other treats). To get a sneak peek or grab yours today, check out the official Strange Kid Shop.

SKC Halloween Costume Contest – Deadline Extended to September 30th

WHAT IS IT?

To celebrate the coming Halloween season Strange Kids Club is kicking off our very first SKC Halloween Costume Contest, but we need YOU to make it happen. This is your chance to dig up that embarrassingly awesome photo of you in costume as your favorite monster, ghoul, creep, or superhero for a chance to win some sweet, SCHWEET prizes! Don’t believe us? Keep reading you wisenheimer.

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Let the Full Cotton Blend of Strange Kid Embrace You!

Thanks to a collaboration with Autumn Society alum Glen Brogan (www.albinoraven.com) and the awesome folks at 8-Bit Zombie (www.8bitzombie.com) apparel, Strange Kids Club will be receiving its first ever official t-shirt!

Only 30 of these limited edition shirts will be made available while one will also be given away as part of our Halloween Costume Contest (click for more details) along with a Monster Squad art print SIGNED by Fred Dekker, a full head Halloween mask from Trick or Treat Studios (www.trickortreatstudios.com) and more!

Shirts will go on sale starting Sept. 1st!

Helheim

This spring, I was asked by the folks over at Strange Kids Club to contribute to their Halloween anthology. 

MORE PROCESS STUFFS AND INKS @ MY BLOG

MONSTER CREEPS - PHOTOS!

Fred Dekker & Chogrin

A big THANK-YOU to everyone who came out this Saturday night (August 6th, 2011) for the 1-NIGHT-ONLY, MONSTER CREEPS SHOW in tribute to the films by Fred Dekker (Night of the Creeps & Monster Squad). The event featured art tributes by selected artists from the Autumn Society (www.theautumnsociety.com) and other special guests.

I would like thank writer & director, Fred Dekker, for coming out and making this event so special and possible. Thank-you for creating such timeless & epic movies that have touched the hearts of many geeks like myself around the world.

Another big thank-you Del & Sue over at Dark Delicacies (www.darkdel.com) for letting me host the event at their wonderful store. Many more events to come here!

Other BIG thank-yous to the following people and sponsors for making this event possible!

-Justin Gray (burntobuild.blogspot.com), for creating the amazing MONSTER CREEPS show poster, and for getting me back into Monster Squad & introducing me to Night of the Creeps.

-Rondal Scott III for providing the the talents of Brent Engstrom & Corlen Kruger, and for his sponsorship with STRANGE KIDS CLUB (www.strangekidsclub.com).

-Dick Grunert for his Horror movie consultation and sponsorship with his DEAD OF NIGHT RADIO (deadofnightradio.blogspot.com)

-FRIGHT-RAGS (www.fright-rags.com) for their sponsorship and a copy of the awesome "Night of the Creeps meets Monster Squad" poster by Jason Edmiston

-All the MONSTER CREEPS / ARTISTS: Todd Spence, Sara Turner, Ashley Long, Glen Brogan, Kali Meadows, Brent Engstrom, Corlen Kruger, Bobby O'herlihy, Mark Fionda Jr., Karla Jane, Kasey Tarauj, and Pedro Delgado

-Germain Lussier from /FILM for coming out and doing an amazing Q&A with Fred, before the screening of Monster Squad at the Banshee Theater.

-Rich Collado for always helping me get things done on time and covering all my events!

And a last special shout out to my mom and family for letting me watch these kinds of movies while growing up and making me who I am today.

Video & other coverage soon!

"The Crew" From left to left to right: Dick Grunert, Noel Belknap, Del Howison, Fred Dekker, Chogrin, Ashley Long, Kali Meadows

"The signing" From left to right: Todd Spence, Brent Engstrom, Ashley Long, Chogrin, Fred Dekker

Del & Fred hold the Monster Creeps poster by Justin Gray

Fred & Chogrin signing the last poster!

MORE PHOTOS HERE:
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Chogrin Presents: MONSTER CREEPS (poster by Justin Gray)

Poster & "Monster Creeps" banner by Justin Gray (burntobuild.blogspot.com)

Hello and welcome to Monster Creeps! Monsters Creeps is an art show & tribute to Fred Dekker's MONSTER SQUAD & NIGHT OF THE CREEPS.

Monster Creeps will also be an organization under Chogrin dedicated to horror art shows.

A special thank-you to my sponsors: The Autumn Society, Strange Kids Club, Fright-Rags, and Dead of Night Radio.

More to come soon!

Interview w/ Illustrator Tom Whalen

It's turning into quite a week for AS-related interviews it would seem. Next up is an AS alum and one of my personal favorite design-oriented illustrators: Tom Whalen!

Whalen's signature style has made him something on an internet phenom over the past few years, both in the design industry as well as the illustration community. It doesn't hurt that he also enjoys making 80s and 90s pop culture the subject of his works including Transformers, G.I. Joe, He-Man, Star Wars and more!

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Spotlight on Autumn Society Member: Glen Brogan

Glen Brogan should be a name that many of you are quite familiar with; he's a self-admitted nostalgia junkie, an ongoing contributor to AS art events/shows, and my latest co-conspirator on the SK-exclusive web comic Strange Kid Shorties.

When he’s not illustrating icons of pop culture goodness, however, Glen is most likely occupied drawing scantily-clad ladies for the “funniest, sexiest magazine on earth,” Front Magazine and taking on as many freelance assignments he can handle. Luckily, I was able to lure the hardworking artist up to the SK clubhouse for a brief chat, one “strange kid” to another.

Check out the full interview here.

Strange Kid Club

Illustration I did for Strange Kid Club Anthology Book.
Also here is a link to my Portfolio site migmaa.com

Peace,
Mansur

STRANGE KIDS CLUB PUNCH! (UPDATED)

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Strange Kid Shorties #2

The second installment of my web comic for Strange Kids Club went up today, direct link here.

Kick Arse Cartoons: An Interview w/ Mukpuddy Animation Studio

I fell a bit behind in sharing some of our latest artist interviews from the clubhouse, so I'm back to make amends with this awesome feature of Mukpuddy-- a great group of guys! As members of the Autumn Society most of you are probably well aware of who they are and the mind-blowingly crazy cartoons they produced, but for the uninitiated I offer this peek inside the Mukpuddy studios:

How did the name Mukpuddy come about?

We lived with an undiscovered pygmy tribe for 6 years- they treated us like Gods. As we left, they placed their tiny hands on our shoulders and looked to the stars and cried “MUKPUDDY!” and it was so… man, imagine if that were true?! That would be quite a story to tell folks, better than “we took a bunch of words, muddled them up until we found a new word that sounded “cool” which is, in fact, the actual story.

How many “Muks” are there? How do you decide who does what?

There are 3 of us. We came together in 1998 at our animation school in New Zealand and have stuck together ever since. As far as who does what we each have our strengths; Alex’s being character design/backgrounds/layout, Tim with technical things and music/editing and animation and Ryan with writing, voices and animation. But at the end of the day we all do everything so it’s quite hard to give one person credit for a particular aspect of a project, early on we decided that Mukpuddy would be the name that gets the credit.

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Strange Kid Anthology Cover Reveal

Cover Artwork by Brent Engstrom (http://www.brentengstrom.com/)

As many of you heard yesterday, the Strange Kid Anthology is well on its way to becoming the clubhouse's biggest project to date thanks to the efforts of over 20 talented artists, including members of this very Society (thanks Chogrin!).

Today, I'm happy to reveal for the first time here the final cover artwork for the anthology (without the logo) by Brent Engstrom. Brent was very generous in not only providing us with an interview, but doing one heck of a job capturing the pure, nostalgic wackiness of our little Strange Kid. Be sure to grab yours before the pre-order offer expires. $7 for 50+ pages of content, contests, and secret prizes? You do the math.

Featured artists: Brent Engstrom, Jon David Guerra, Jase Harper, German Orozco, Drew Rausch/Jocelyn Gajeway, Glen Brogan, Matthew Allison, Mukpuddy, Chogrin, Mike Geiger, Drazen Kozjan, Elliott McHugh, Vanessa Buldowski, Keith Zoo, Jim Pluk, Dave Perillo, Bobby O’Herlihy, Malachi Ward, Carlos Araujo, Jimmy Giegerich, Raymond Chase, Miguel Manzur, Eric Gute, Sasa Kohler, Jake Armstrong, and Dragan Kovačević.

Strange Kid Anthology #1 - Featuring Autumn Society members! (BUY NOW)

 Strange Kid Anthology #1

Pre-orders available until April 3rd

By now you've heard the news that Strange Kid has gone out and gathered up his most artistically inclined pals (including many Autumn Society members) for a jumbo-sized comic jam starring... well, himself (the vain little creep).

Anyhow, it's a really exciting book with over 50 pages of exclusive comics, contests, and an interview with cover artist and Garbage Pail Kids illustrator Brent Engstrom! PLUS, each issue comes pre-packaged with a special prize inside (woot!).

Pre-order your copy today (click here) for only $7 bucks, but do it quick because that price is only good until April 3rd, 2011.

 

These and many more versions of Rondal Scott's Strange Kid by Autumn Society members & other Super Awesome Artists!  

Mukpuddy does Strange Kid...

We were recently asked to contribute a comic to the 'Strange Kid Anthology' and here's what we put together...

They also interviewed us... CHECK IT OUT!

Let's Get Strange

Trying some new techniques out and seeing if I can push my style a little more. I'm pretty pleased so far :) The top image is a spread for the folks at the Strange Kids Club, it'll be in their anthology book coming out soon, special thanks to Rondal Scott for getting me in there!

The second image is a dvd cover image I was asked to do for a project that my buddy Kelsey Allen did some work on.

I'll be back soon with some gallery pieces for some shows I've got coming up. Til next time, love luck and lollipops y'all.

-B

STRANGE KIDS CLUB PIN-UP

My Pin-up for the upcoming Strange Kids Club Anthology!

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Strange Kid Comics

That's right! I will be doing a comic strip for the Strange Kids Club. I was really excited to create a comic for the anthology but this should prove to be even cooler. This St. Patrick's Day strip is the first one, so SKC proprietor Rondal Scott and I will be getting a feel for the project as we go along.

You can see the official post here on the Strange Kids Club website, and you can pre-order the upcoming anthology here. I know it features the work of quite a few Autumn Society members so I'm really excited to check it out.

Pre-Order your copy of Strange Kid Anthology #1

Hey there everyone! I'm very proud to announce that the gang at Strange Kids Club is now offering pre-orders on our first ever comics anthology!

Currently scheduled for an April release, the Strange Kid Anthology features over 20 different artists from around the world and includes some names that should be very familiar among The Autumn Society including Chogrin, German Orozco, Drew Rausch, Jake Armstrong, Mike Geiger, Eric Gonzalez, Dave Perillo... and that's just to name a few!

Each artist has contributed both their talent and time to create this giant-sized; not to mention it features a comic by upcoming Strange Kid webcomic artist by Glen Brogan, an interview with our cover artist Brent Engstrom (a veteran Topps artist behind Topps Garbage Pail Kids trading cards), and special prizes with every copy of the book - all for only $7 bucks!

Click here to pre-order your copy today.