This is the lineart for our upcoming ‘White Dragon’ print! Designed by Tim Doyle and measuring 12×24, this print will be up for sale in the coming weeks!
He say you BRRRADDE RUNNAH!
- alex fugazi
Ooohhh. Our favorite holiday. And to celebrate, we’re having a print give-away contest-
Back in June, Nick Derington created these exclusive prints for Famous Monsters of FilmLand’s San Diego Comic-Con ‘09 booth- and they were a big hit at the con!
Both prints are up for sale RIGHT NOW in the Art Prints section of the store.
The WEB print is 18×24 and is signed and numbered by Nick in an edition of 225- we’ll only have 40 for sale. AND- the Forry print is 12×18 and we have ONLY 10 for sale!
And, because we love you- (really, we do) we’re having a contest! Each part of the ‘WEB’ above is a reference to a well known (and some not-so-well-known) covers from Famous Monsters’ long history! If you can identify the parts of the web, we’ll ship you a Forrest J. Print on the house! And to help, here’s a handy key below!
So- get on it! Deadline is 10/31 MIDNIGHT. Prints are in hand and are ready for immediate shipment! Email your answers via the contact us form below!
-alex fugazi
I remember a better time. A time when life was about having fun, enjoying a sunny day, or just hanging out with friends. That was when it felt good to be alive. But now the only thing I feel about being amongst the living is lucky. Or unlucky, if you really want to be brutally honest. How can one feel good about being one of the only survivors of…
McDonaldland!
Thunderlips’s Top-Secret Private Journal
Date: Forgotten. Time means nothing in McDonaldland
My belly was growling. How long had it been since I had eaten? Sure, I still had some thawed Flav-R-Ice leftover from the days when refrigeration still worked. But I wasn’t excited about another bout of Sugar Madness. No, I needed something with substance. That’s when I decided to make the terrifying journey down the road. The food wasn’t far from my bunker. But how far can you get in Hell on flip flops? Not very damn far, Skippy.
I wandered almost blindly through deserted streets. The acid sting of rain tore into me, proving even the elements would be a danger. It was Man that had made Mother Nature into a whore… and she was crying poison tears.
Through a jungle of tangled and useless phone lines, wires, and cables, I saw it: the Golden Arches.
Billions and billions DOOMED.
It’s ironic to call them that now. It’s a lie, even. Passing through Golden Arches, you would expect safety… warmth… maybe even hope. The only thing I would find here was a mockery of what we used to believe represented Food, Folks, and Fun. That was in the days before the totalitarian regime declared a police state.
Remember when McDonaldland was fun and you could frolic?
Our sanctuaries had become asylums. And when you amass so many of the hungry, the insane, and the desperate together under one roof and call it dinner time… well, what do you expect to happen? Of course they began eating each other! It’s in our nature, you know. As long as it’s deep fried, who cares where the meat comes from?
But that was in the past. The demonic Fry Kids had long deserted their former eating grounds, skittering into the endless night.
We called them Moptops when the killings started. They scalped their victims and braided their gruesome prizes into their own hair.
The Grimace beast had slithered his grotesque, fluid bulk in search of other prey. Though the trail of edible slime he left behind sustained our need of food for a week, I’m still having those awful hallucinations.
This shake-stealing horror moved on to more interesting game… your children!
And Mayor McCheese? The beloved leader that had sold us all down the river… who knows where that sonofabitch went? With all the money he took, he’s surely enjoying himself in a fortified palace on a throne of deceit. I didn’t even vote for that asshole.
The Cheeseburger Who Sold the World
And then there’s Ronald McDonald. Poor, stupid Ronald. Once a bringer of joy, a smiling jackanape that struggled to bring peace and equality to the world through his wondrous commercials… his tale is too tragic to even recount. But be forewarned. Keep your remaining loved ones nearby at all times, or else they may wander too close to McDonaldland’s hungriest scavenger.
If you see this, you’re already dead.
Those were just some of the monsters to be wary of. As I slipped into the wreckage, I spied a brood of zombies staring stupidly at the cracked menus that used to shine down invitingly on the restaurant’s patrons. I slipped by them towards one of the Workers. The Workers move slowly, and seem to be
trained in some way to be servile towards the few survivors brave (or stupid) enough to fight their way in. The Worker I approached had an extended belly. My heart sank at this new information. They can breed. Dear Lord, the Workers can BREED!
“How can I help you?”
“Uh, yeah. Can I have a number twelve? Do you guys have McDonaldland cookies?”
What can I say? I knew it would be days before I would work up the courage to make another trek outside. And eating cookie-flavored fetishes of the McDonaldland freaks might help me better understand the mind of the psychotic killers. To destroy a monster, you must become one.
“Oh, I’m sorry. We don’t have those at our location. They have them at others, but not ours.”
Goddammit. So much for dry, packaged rations.
“Oh… okay. Then I’ll take the smallest Chicken McNuggets available.”
I amused myself by referring to them as chicken. Like such a creature would ever survive the famished denizens of McDonaldland. Surely any meat in the overly-crisped “nuggets” was stripped from a raccoon, the only animal that has thrived in the Hell we have made of this world. Rabies will do that for ya.
It may not be delicious, but fried raccoon is a delicacy few can afford in our post-apocalyptic world.
She repreated my last order, drone-like. “One four-piece McNugget. Here…”
I jumped to alertness when the Pregnant Worker turned away from me. Was she going for a weapon? Was the dormant thing lying in the normally-docile Counter Worker controlling her actions from within? My heart pounded in my chest and felt like it would burst out. Much like the child was sure to be “born” into our burning world.
She was digging around in the cardboard boxes we used to call “Happy Meals.” If only there were meals to be happy about. Then she turned around and placed two small packages on the counter in front of me. I looked at them cautiously. They were small packets of McDonaldland cookies!
Looks like I’ll be eating this month!
She smiled at me as if I were humanity’s last hope, and these stale wafers pressed into the Ronald’s image were going to help in some foolish quest to save us all. I smiled sheepishly, too ashamed to admit I was going to retreat to my safehouse immediately after woofing down my “number twelve.”
While waiting for the Fry Cooks to kill and prepare my meal, I grabbed at the paper cup left upside-down on a tray and looked for a hydration station. The machine I found dispensed five different kinds of Coca-Cola and a drink that was supposed to taste like the fruit we used to call oranges. They were the color orange, coincidentally enough. It feels odd to remember those little details now.
Having returned to the counter with my disposable canteen filled to the brim with still-bubbling orange brew, I was stunned to see the two paper boxes, one small and one considerably bigger. Then the kind Pregnant Worker placed a paper satchel of potato-flavored grease sticks on the tray.
“There ya go!”
Thank you, Pregnant Worker. I hope you birth well and live happily in ignorance, though I fear that’s not possible, not even for a Worker. Not in McDonaldland. Not in a place where THIS is considered “normal”:
The Burger Clown shows us the gaping maw and deadly chompers he is now feared for.
I looked for a table that had yet to be upturned or missing. I found one facing a grimy window to the gloomy outside world. A world I was terribly afraid of. But that’s a fear that keeps me alive. A fear that immediately began buzzing inside of my head as I looked at my meal.
The meal of the damned… oh look, Monopoly’s back!
As I started consuming what the menu referred to as an Angus burger (I bet poor Angus never knew what hit him), I started hearing strange grunts and clicks and chattering. I looked up from my Scottish manburger and saw a Mumbler not twenty paces from me! These unpredictable shambling-men used to frequent buses and sit on the sidewalks in front of downtown buildings back in the days before the Public Transportation Revolt. When there were buildings to sit in front of, if one so desired.
The wretched thing growled and sang and clicked to itself, its dirty face pressed against a grimy window. It kept directing its attention to me and my consumables. I looked in front of it and saw only a cup of the bitter McDonaldland excuse for coffee. I had better eat quickly. Don’t look up, don’t engage the creature. Just eat, and eat fast.
I dined to the chorus of noises and grunts of the muck-man. The food was unpleasant, but filling. Much like the time I was reduced to gnawing on a cat. That thing scratched the shit out of me. Perhaps I should have slain the morsel first. With my plastic fork, I stabbed each McNugget in turn.
Let it never be said I don’t learn my lessons.
The Mumbler continued his mournful song. For the sake of this entry, I screwed up my courage to capture an image of the deranged survivor.
I couldn’t make out what he was saying, but he was REALLY into it.
I brought this picture to you at great peril. Though my karate skills are at their peak, I was weighed down by a meal that consisted wholly of lard and orange Hi-C. I was no match in speed for a Mumbler cranked up on McCafe with a twist of crazy-as-fuck juice. Instead of further antagonizing the deadly drifter, I shuffled the waste products of my meal together onto the tray and hurried away.
Before I left, and having discovered a new sense of morbid adventure, I decided to take an amusing picture of me in the McDonaldland bathroom, post-Lovin’ It. But I was horrified to find what appeared to be little imp-like children splashing and playing in the remnants of the Hamburglar. What’s black and white and red all over? I can now tell you it’s not a newspaper, friends.
In Memoriam. Rubble rubble, little buddy.
So I ran. I ran for my God-fearing life. God? No, there is no God in McDonaldland. Only monsters in the masks of childhood friends.
“Don’t blaspheme, Thunderlips.”
Washington Times Film Critic, Sonny Bunch, profiled us in today’s issue of the paper! You can buy the paper at this thing called a NEWSSTAND, and apparently, it’s printed on ACTUAL paper. Weird!
Or, you can read it HERE.
The article is called-
Man…GEEZ! If you look at that image of the Paper above, and look REAL closely, you’ll see the date is June 29th, 1989! That’s less than a week after Burton’s BATMAN came out- I bet that paper was full of all kinds of awesome print ads and reviews for the movie. Geez, at the moment that paper was on the stands, I was probably running around the back yard trying to climb trees with my Toy Biz Batman Grapple Gun. Man, Batman was like the most important news of the day, I’d imagine. Nothing more pressing or headline grabbing than that. BATMAN.
Hey, who’s he calling a dork?
-alex fugazi
Kevin Tong blew into Austin like an LA smog, and left like a Texas Twister. And why was he here?
That’s right ladies, the man was here on a working vacation. Between picking up a secret print set from one printer, printing another secret project in Nakatomi Print Labs, and printing the not-so secret Atlas Tron print, he was also here to party-
Uh…there are no photos of Kevin actually partying, as he was the one taking the photos. Man, we were all world class dicks for not taking any pics of him.
BUT- if you go to his Austin Trip FLICKR set, you’ll see details of our harrowing trip to Poster Legend Rob Jones’ house-
Uh…
Quick! Here’s a video of Kevin and Clint exposing a screen on the lightbox at Nakatomi-
What the? Thanks for making fun of me, jerks! I don’t need those weight for exercise, because I love to DANCE!
Anyway, back to the previously mentioned Atlas-Tron- these beauts are printed and in-hand for immediate shipment! If you ordered one of these w/ a shirt, they will be printing in the next few weeks, and in your hands shortly! If you just ordered a poster, that will be on it’s way tomorrow-
Atlas-Tron- one color left to print!
Which reminds me- ONE WEEK LEFT to order Kevin Tong’s invitational entry! Available now in the INVITATIONAL section of the store!
Here it is, all done up!
-alex fugazi, dance master.
After making posters for a few years…CLINT WILSON HAS TOO MANY POSTERS! He’s literally sleeping on top of them, they’re under his kitchen table, and filling his closets. If he could eat them, he’d be fine.
So in order to clear out some room, Clint is having a crazy sale, and we here at Nakatomi are helping him clear out his apartment!
For $20 you get 5 posters in one tube! Each tube will contain at least one of the following, if not more!
-Green Day
-TOOL
-X
-Mars Volta
-They Might Be Giants
Up for sale now in the Gigposters section of the store!
ONLY 20 TUBES AVAILABLE!
