Brand new MAXI Motion Picture Purgatory! This one’s a commission I just completed for a private client about Montreal’s notorious grindhouse theater of yore, The Cristal! As such, what we have here is a raw scan of the B&W pen & ink art, no digitally enhanced gradients or colors, suitable for framing, exactly as delivered! Try reading THIS one on your hand-held device! You might think I’m deliberately cramming a million details into my splash-pages on purpose because of my contempt for the thumbnailization of culture we’re currently suffering through, but I actually started pulling this stunt back in the 80’s when free weekly The Montreal Mirror reduced the size of my comics to make space for their ads! I was so annoyed I decided to start handing in impossibly ornate drawings so they’d look like postage stamps once printed & maybe change their minds to gimme more space! Hence this is how the original format for my Maxi Motion Picture Purgatories got birthed! This installment manages to touch on topless female 70’s Asian kung fu flicks, XXX Through the Looking Glass (1976), Night of the Living Dead (1968), Pearl White from Perils of Pauline (1914), Boogie Nights (1997), Marilyn Chambers in David Cronenberg’s Rabid (1977), John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982), Montreal’s Club Soda, gentrification, molesters, winos, & Shopsy hotdogs among other things! Got an idea for a personalized commission like this? Contact me for more info! (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window & use the magnify function).
SOLD. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.
