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MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY ORIGINAL ART!
$100.00 EACH
Select from alphabetically archived fave flicks to obtain hand-drawn originals HERE
You get three items total with each purchase: The pencil art preliminaries, the original finished B&W inks, & a color newsprint tear-sheet (or B&W gray tones, depending on when it came out) from the Montreal Mirror the way it was originally published. Postage & framing not included.
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"Ordinarily, I start off by sitting through whatever weekly tinseltown turd the Montreal Mirror orders me to "review" with flashlight & notepad in hand to annoy the hell out of theatergoers unlucky enough to sit next to me. I scribble down plot chronologies & goofy quotables. Then when I get home I finish my text via word processor following these notes breaking everything down panel-by-panel, speech balloon per speech balloon, & transcribe it all onto my drawing paper (no I don't have a cartoon-lettering computer font, every word is microscopically hand-scribbled one-by-one). Then I pencil in the rough art & retrace everything in refined final inks w/a light table so I can scan the results, touch everything up, & email it to Montreal Mirror for publication. All original art's on 11X17 inch white bond, inked in black w/PILOT hi-Tecpoint V7 Fine, & V5 Extra-Fine pens. Gray tones & color for the print & online versions are done digitally so do not appear on original art." -Rick Trembles
MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY ANTHOLOGY!
MPP Volume 2 (hardcover, 192 pages)
Collection of the best of Rick Trembles' comic strip movie reviews from the Montreal Mirror (published by FAB Press in 2009). Rare limited edition hardback version signed & numbered by the author (only 100 copies were made). Includes comic strip intro detailing the method to Trembles' madness.
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"There are comic artists, there are movie critics, & then there's Rick Trembles, who's had the genius idea of combining the two to form his own personal dark art. Trembles' strips are a joy to read & invariably more interesting than the movies that inspired them." -THE GUARDIAN. "Hilarious" -Michael Weldon, PSYCHOTRONIC. "Motion Picture Purgatory is always hysterically funny, always thoughtful, always goes in interesting (true) directions, & is always fascinating to study. It bears re-reading, which is rare in any cartoon product." -Joe Bob Briggs, author of JOE BOB GOES TO THE DRIVE-IN. "Rick Trembles is a man who is not afraid to flaunt his obsessions whether you like it or not in these intense comic strip/movie reviews aptly called Motion Picture Purgatory. I personally have always liked his jagged, detailed drawing style, & the unique layouts of each one of these strips is a marvel to behold." -Peter Bagge, author of HATE (FANTAGRAPHICS), & SPIDERMAN (MARVEL COMICS). "What are movies, after all, but words & pictures? Like a big comic? So what better way to approach film criticism than an actual comic? The incomparable genius Rick Trembles has done just that. You've got be a serious movie fan to digest this stuff. Trembles certainly is." -SCREW MAGAZINE. "Spot-on & very necessary. Trembles covers everything from blockbuster movies through to arthouse favorites & underground obscurities. You might even learn something." -HEADPRESS.
MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY ANTHOLOGY!
MPP Volume 2 (softcover, 192 pages)
Collection of the best of Rick Trembles' comic strip movie reviews from the Montreal Mirror (published by FAB Press in 2009). Includes comic strip intro detailing the method to Trembles' madness.
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"Rick's comics are funnier, more observant & entertaining than most film criticism today, not to mention more so than many of the movies themselves." -Michael Gingold, FANGORIA MAGAZINE. "Toxie & I love Trembles' art. If Troma movies did not move, they'd want to Tremble. He is a hilarious & profound genius & an excellent dancer." -Lloyd Kaufman, creator of THE TOXIC AVENGER & president of TROMA ENTERTAINMENT. "Rick Trembles is like a punk-rock Leonard Maltin." -FISHPISS MAGAZINE. "Clearly the work of a deranged genius - film reviews for psychos." -BOOKMUNCH. "Local lurid dilettante, commanding comix captain & preposterously prehistorical post-punk band big-gun Rick Trembles has published a comic book compendium that will immerse you in the concentrated assuredness and artistry with which Trembles works his foul fantasies!" -HOUR (Montreal). "Rick combines his seemingly endless knowledge of all kinds of film, from the most obscure to the most mainstream, with his signature artistic style. You've never seen anything like this before. This is a great book." -CREATURE CORNER. "Hilariously acidic comic-strip reviews from the mind of a Montreal menace." -Howard Cruse, author of STUCK RUBBER BABY & WENDEL ALL TOGETHER.
MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY ANTHOLOGY!
MPP Volume 1 (softcover, 192 pages)
Collection of the best of Rick Trembles' comic strip movie reviews from the Montreal Mirror (published by FAB Press). Includes written intro about the history of the strip by Trembles & an embossed shiny silvery cover.
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"Among the few real innovators of comix & movie critics (now there's a mutant hybrid!) is Rick Trembles, whose unique work shouldn't really be all that unique: in the best of all worlds, communication on a primarily visual medium like movies would invite fusion with a primarily visual medium like comics. But only Rick has put this primal perception to work with bracing wit, clarity, & no-shit honesty - & he's been doing it for over two decades. Another of Montreal's best-kept secrets is out. Move over, Chas Balun & Joe Bob! Howl, gorehounds! Wake up, cine-whores! Tremble, Hollywood hucksters! Rick Trembles is entering the braincells via the optic nerve - and you'll never be (or see) the same again!" -Stephen R. Bissette, SWAMP THING. "Comic strips & films are unique art forms that were invented at the same time. Both tell stories with images & words. There has been a lot of back & forth between them; many comic strips have inspired movies while great film directors such as Truffaut & Fellini got their start directing fumettis (photo comics). MAD magazine's finest moments were its film parodies. Trembles' work fits right in there. 'Motion Picture Purgatory' is the first-ever regularly published comic strip movie review. You learn a lot more about the movies from his comics than you would from Roger Ebert or a NY Times review." -John Holmstrom, creator of PUNK MAGAZINE (the first of its kind) & illustrator of several early Ramones albums.
SIGNED SCULPTURES!
Bijoux Numbers 1 to 5
Rick Trembles' homemade creature sculptures from a 2009 gallery exhibition duplicated in sturdy plaster! 50 dollars each. For more details & photos of the other 4 creations click on the image above or HERE
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BRAND NOT NEW!
The Electric Vomit
Rick Trembles' first 70's punk band on 7-inch vinyl! 3 original songs; No End, Treasure Hunt, & Boredom Abolishing plus band history & lyrics inside!
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"A great Montreal punk rock artifact. The Electric Vomit may not have been at the ground zero of Montreal punk, but they were pretty damn close. These recordings are from 1979 & feature a pre-Nils Carlos Soria & a pre-American Devices (& future Mirror cartoonist) Rick Trembles in all their acne-ridden splendour. The three blasters here are as punk as Sid’s scowl, with a speedy, proto-hardcore tempo predating what would come shortly later." -Johnson Cummins, The Montreal Mirror.
BRAND NEWISH!
The American Devices
First factory-made CD label release from Montreal's longest-lasting "post-punk" band! Includes 22 killer songs spanning 1980 to 2004, a 12-page booklet by Rick Trembles detailing his band's secret origins crammed with rare photos, a full color foldout poster of current members, & a brain-bending foldout Pete Frame style hand-drawn genealogy graph tracking the Devices' musical milieu dating as far back as the 70's!
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"Really weird music... sounds like The Velvet Underground meets The Fast" -John Holmstrom, Punk Magazine (New York City). "As the first few notes start trickling in, the momentum behind the American Devices becomes unshakable" -Liz Worth, Exclaim! Magazine (Toronto). "Onanistic/obsessive, & in their singular way, brilliant, ...irreducible" -Mark Lepage, The Gazette (Montreal). "Intricacies & idiosyncrasies pushing the envelopes of punk ethos, proggy complexity, & twisted pop charm" -Rupert Bottenberg, The Montreal Mirror. "An essential possession for any serious lover of Montreal music" -Martin Siberok, Hour (Montreal). "Authentically delirious thick-skinned psychedelic alterno-punk" -Serge Paradis, Ici (Montreal). "Wiggley surf guitar on amphetamines, perverse lyrics, obscure mythology, & refusal to die" -Terrence Dick, Broken Pencil Magazine (Toronto). "The real deal… hits you with its euphoric minimalism & penchant for the unpredictable, songs spinning & twittering into manic claustrophobia, jangly angles, fraught bass-lines & hyperactive freak-outs" -Liz Worth, Eye Weekly (Toronto). "I put the Labelle/Trembles combo right up there with some of the other great guitar duos in rock and roll; Reed/Morrison, Jones/Richards, Thunders/Sylvain, Verlaine/Lloyd, Julian/Quine, Shelley/Diggle, Ranaldo/Moore, etc." -Chris Burns, Nutsak (Montreal).
BRAND NOT REALY NEWISH!
AMERICAN DEVICES 20TH ANNIVERSARY SPLIT SINGLE
Limited edition personally numbered 4 song 7 inch vinyl with Yes Or No (AKA Wetmare) by THE AMERICAN DEVICES (Rick Trembles guitar/vocals), The Monster Mash by PHYCUS, Pills by CORPUSSE & Band Meeting by DETROIT METAL. Includes painted cover & inside comic by DEVICES member Rick Trembles.
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BRAND OLD!
DECENSORTIZED
12 song LP released in 1989 with hand-sculpted embossed cover by Rick Trembles. Only a handful left & the master tapes have deteriorated. Includes Party Pooper, Suck My Rocks, Got The Feeling It's, Wet Nurse, The Ballad Of The Green Berets, Coalshaft, What Is The Meaning Of Life, Gorey Story, See My World, Unexploded Bomb, Someone We Once Knew & Trigger Off.
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"Hard-ass guitar burn" -Jimmy Johnson, Forced Exposure. "A remarkable Canadian quartet" -Mark Rhodes, Alternative Press. "Too weird to succeed" -Mark Lepage, The Gazette.
MEGALO/DEVICES SPLIT SINGLE
4 song 1993 split 7 inch with 2 from MEGALO, Marc (STEAK 72) Montanchez's former band, & 2 from THE AMERICAN DEVICES (Spacey Seasick & a remake of Trigger Off). Includes a Rick Trembles comic inside.
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NINETIES DEMOS
Very few left of this 8 song 1998 cassette release. Includes Wetmare, Namby Pamby, Deusexmachina, Devices 1980, The New You, Sudden Dearth, Fancy Parties & Womb Service.
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2 SOLITUDES COMPILATION
Montreal band compilation cassette includes the song Decensortized by THE AMERICAN DEVICES.
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FROM MONTREAL...
1983 Og Records Montreal band compilation 7 inch with DEJA VOO DOO, THE TERMINAL SUNGLASSES & CONDITION includes the song Hitler Was A Jew by THE AMERICAN DEVICES.
NOT AVAILABLE
PRIMITIVE AIR-RAID
1984 Montreal band compilation LP includes the song Spontaneous Combustion by THE AMERICAN DEVICES.
NOT AVAILABLE
SUGAR DIET MAGAZINE #1
Extremely rare Montreal "counterculture" zine put out by the DEVICES' Rick Trembles in 1984 containing comix & interviews with 12 local bands (I.E.: DEVICES, NILS, DEJA-VOODOO, MEN WITHOUT HATS, SCUM, etc...). A page of comix from SD1 was bought for publication in legendary underground cartoonist Robert Crumb's WEIRDO MAGAZINE. Due to the scarcity of this item the best we can offer are photocopied versions of the originals.
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SUGAR DIET MAGAZINE #2
Self-published 1992 comic book by Rick Trembles deemed "even more twisted & weird than me" by Robert Crumb. Includes the strip "How Did I Get So Anal," bisected by Marcie Frank in Queer Diasporas (Duke University Press) & completed as an award-winning animated film in 2004 by Rick Trembles retitled Goopy Spasms.
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SUGAR DIET MAGAZINE #3
Rick Trembles' 1995 self-published comic book follow up to Sugar Diets 1 & 2.
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On the comix work of Rick Trembles: "Immediate impact" - Chester Brown, creator of YUMMY FUR. "Masterpiece" - Peter Bagge, creator of HATE. "Liked your comic a lot!" - Daniel Clowes, creator of EIGHTBALL. "Mighty good!" - Julie Doucet, creator of DIRTY PLOTTE. "Fuckn' great!" -Mike Diana, creator of BOILED ANGEL. "Genius" - Darius James, author of NEGROPHOBIA and THAT'S BLAXPLOITATION.