Mission Statement: I’m a comic artist, but feel more comfortable by making illustrations as opposed to comic books. One drawing tells more of the story than countless pages of comic strips. I hope my art inspires people to create their own stories…
Most of my work is dedicated to Miss Satan, a character I created few years ago. She’s circus and burlesque artist and she produces her show anywhere she can. I’m really influenced by folk tales and nonsense, which is why Miss Satan is surrounded by animals and characters from folk tales, and few human beings.
I love drawing freaks. Most of the time they look ugly, sad and defenseless, they some kind of Pokémon to me (one day I will create a collectible cards game with all of them).
I’m really influenced by my environment. I was born and raised in a little city in the countryside of France (far from big cities), the type of place where marriages are celebrated between cousins. I know that I have consanguinity in my genes – that’s certainly why I draw freaks — but I’m still very attached to this place.
graffiti noun : (1) a key indication of poverty, language of the people, costly vandalism, the most prevalent medium of art in the world, landmarks for violence, an expression that transcends the false constructs of race, and yet another segment of black culture to be appropriated, and at the same time demonized, by the white majority in America. (2) unauthorized writing or drawing on a public surface.
Growing up outside east Denver, I remember helping clean graffiti off the side of the church my family attended. It was back soon after we tried to wash it off the first time, and the second. After a while, we stopped doing anything about it.
I didn’t always like graffiti, but it always interested me. The act of carving one’s name on the surface of something physical, in secret, somewhere someone would see it someday – it’s primal, but a sign of self-reflection, intelligence even.
Shotgun Suicide gets down and dirty with Epiic, Setsuka and Porcellana to show you the correct way to unscrew nuts, take off rubbers, and put the (disc) brakes on your ride.
Artist, SG photographer and Coilhouse Magazine founding editor Zoetica Ebb has designed a super stylish series of iPhone and iPod Touch cases for indie arthouse Apple accessory company Izozzi.
WHY DO YOU LOVE IT?: Because of the wide variety of extremely talented people who share their stuff and all the interesting tips you can find on how to make your own stencils.
DISCUSSION TIP: Be open-minded.
BEST RANDOM QUOTE: “I don’t care about labels, I do what I do, I do how I do it and people can call it whatever the hell they want.”
MOST HEATED DISCUSSION THREAD: Anything concerning Banksy.
WHO’S WELCOME TO JOIN?: Those who are interested in decorating our boring urban infrastructures!
This week I’m featuring artistic shit out of Portland, Oregon – the best city in America, but don’t fucking move here because it rains for eight goddamn months out of the year. Oh, and by the way, I hope you have a master’s degree and several thousands of dollars in savings, because the only thing a bachelor’s will get you in this town is a part-time job in a coffee shop as a barista-back to a thirty-three year old with a villain mustache straight out of a silent film, who has, apparently, been studying the art of java and thrift-store shopping since he was sixteen.
