So, about 18 months ago, Nakatomi founder, Tim Doyle, did this album cover for a local band-

The front cover was drawn by Doyle, but just about every detail of the image was dictated by the band. Yes, yes they did ask for a drawing of Truck-a-saurus sodomizing a 1983 Dodge conversion van.

The back cover was up to Doyle, and he drew the only slightly more sedate image of the now ‘well loved’ van.  Accompanying the van, just to the left,  is the completely evil Pickles the Cat.  Pickles might be known to Nakatomi fans as the cat driving the El Camino in ‘The Camino Cats’ print.

Pickles is pure evil.

So, back when he did the album art, the band said they all wanted to get the back cover as a tattoo.  “Yeah yeah,” Tim thought- “Nice sentiment, but it’ll never happen.”

Well, last Saturday, ‘Contact High Five’ committed great violence to their skin and their future employment opportunities-

All told, 4 members of the band got the exact same tattoo.  Completely awesome.  Nakatomi heartily apologizes to their families.

Feel free to check them out on-line here- Contact High Five.

Or, might I suggest the band stABBA, the Death-Metal Abba cover band, featuring members from Ch5?- stABBA.

Never, ever do this.

And, just something to keep you awake at night, dreading the apocalypse-

God almighty, that’s awful.  Pickles is a real cat. That evilness is actually real. She’s going to be starring in an upcoming comic book based on the ‘Sea Also Rises’ prints.

You’ve been warned.

-alex fugazi, praying for death.

“Take Thy Beak From Off My Heart, and Take Thy Form From Off My Door” was designed for a “The Raven” themed art show and book in Mexico.  AND- unfortunately it looks like the show and book are canceled, but we do still have the prints for sale!

Available in a red (limited to 47) and blue (limited to 32) editions, this 12×24 2 color silkscreen print is hand-printed and features a split fountain.

Here’s a pic of the actual prints-

Both prints are just $20 each, and are available for sale right now HERE.

And, don’t forget to check out our new FREE PRINTS.

-alex fugazi

We love you.

Since we’ve opened up our print shop, we’ve tried to make sure we’ve always had prints to give away for free- handbills and whatnot squeezed onto existing print jobs, etc.

Well, our LAST ONE blew outta here a few weeks back, and we finally were able to get the next one out!

This 24×6 2 color screenprint features a split fountain and is a detail image from THIS NEW PRINT.

There’s about 50 of each colorway, and they’re all signed by the artist, Tim Doyle.

You’ll get ONE free with each POSTER ORDER, for the next 100 orders.

(We can’t put free prints into T-shirt orders…or I should say, you wouldn’t want us to.)

Now, who else is going to love you like this?

-alex fugazi

Clint Wilson and Tim Doyle were asked to participate in “The Tesla Project”, a Tesla themed art and music event held here in Austin last weekend.  Both created prints for the show, and now that the show has wrapped, we bring the prints to all you in Nakatomi-land!

“Tesla” by Clint Wilson is an 18×24 hand-printed silkscreen poster, signed and numbered by the artist in an edition of 50.

“Man of Tomorrow” is a 12×24 hand-pulled silkscreen print, signed and numbered by Tim Doyle in an edition of 100.

Both prints are just $20, and both are for sale right now in the Nakatomi Store HERE!

-alex_fugazi

(Edison can suck it.)

Tim Doyle teased this print, “The Cook”, on his site a few days back, and we’ve been getting a deluge of email about it’s release!

WELL…it’s up now!

“The Cook” measures 12×24, is 4 colors with 2 split fountains, and is signed and numbered in an edition of 150.

There is also a wood variant also available in a small edition of 10, pictured below-

(Click the image for a BIG pic in our Flickr gallery.)

Like all Nakatomi prints, these are hand-printed, and being on a natural surface like wood, there will be slight variations from print to print in this edition. (The paper prints are dead-on perfect, though).  Do keep this in mind when ordering this extremely limited item.

Both these prints are available right now in the Nakatomi store, and are in hand for immediate shipment!

-alexfugazi

“Respect The Chemistry.”

“Alright, Bucky… here’s the plan. I’m going to strap a parachute on and grab you by the britches. You won’t need a chute because my grip is like a vice. Then I’ll jump us into the middle of a hellish firefight in the Pacific. Here’s a Tommy gun. Ready?”

“What?!? Wait Cap… wait… no… AHHHhhhHHhHHHHHHHHHhH SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!”

That’s the American spirit, kids.

Also, if you look at the covers of other issues of Timely’s (Marvel’s Golden Age incarnation) USA Comics, you’ll see that more than a few Nazi plots revolved around torturing/ injecting/ killing/ meatgrinding Bucky. Here’s my favorite:

What the hell kind of sick shit is that?

“Not only are ve goink to iron maiden your pig Amerikaner face, but ve’re alzo goink to make zure all ze blood haz rushed to your head to make it an ezpecially soppy affair. All for ze glorious Third Reich’s assured victory over ze Allied dogs. Ready? Okay Grubil, star ze crank…”