Hi Weirdo! is an amazingly fun and life-changing children's book by artist Mitch O'Connell and his 7-year-old son, Aiden. This book will warm the hearts of cool kids, happy mutants, and high weirdos.

O'Connell's eye-catching cartoons in this book are next level, as always. — Read the rest

For the last few years, artist Mitch O'Connell (not Mitch McConnell) has been erecting billboards depicting Trump as one of the aliens in the classic science fiction movie They Live. Whenever he posts an announcement to Facebook, angry people weigh in with their opinion, which Mitch happily uses to promote his projects. — Read the rest

The reviews are in! Mitch O'Connell's Trump "They Live" billboard, which many Boing Boing readers help to fund, has won wide praise among the intellectual elite who discuss fine art on Facebook. Mitch collected the reviews and posted them on his blog. — Read the rest

Artist extraordinaire Mitch O'Connell has a new book out, called Tattoos Volume Two: 251 Designs, Bigger and Better! Mitch and I've known each other since we were both 16 years old at Boulder High School. (He was in marching band. Here's his photo.) — Read the rest

Holding off purchasing Mitch O'Connell the World's Best Artist by Mitch O'Connell because you just didn't have the room for a giant 4 lb. book?

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Now it's a featherweight ebook!!

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And it has THIRTY EIGHT EXTRA PAGES of sexy art and sensational stories!!!! — Read the rest

Artist Mitch O'Connell recently had a baby. After making a pipe pacifier for his infant, he started a line of baby clothing featuring sideshow characters!

Step right up! The Fair has come to town!

From "The Prince of Pop Art," artist Mitch O'Connell
introduces "Lil' Sideshow," a tent full of adorable carnival
cutie characters ready adorn all your baby wear needs!

In his vast photo collection are old Chicago movie theaters, delightfully dirty old Times Square, and his backyard tower of impaled baby dolls. Brought to you by Random House Audio (click here for free downloads!) and by Stamps.com (click here for a special $110 offer!)

In this episode of the Gweek podcast, I interviewed Mitch O'Connell about his massive new art book, Mitch O'Connell the World's Best Artist by Mitch O'Connell. This book shows his early work (he published a great zine when we were in high school together), his attempts to enter mainstream comics ("Interesting, but no cigar" — Jim Shooter), his commercial art, band posters, gallery paintings, tattoo flash, and more. — Read the rest

I've told this story before (on Gweek), and I'm going to tell it here again. I'm a great admirer of artist Mitch O'Connell. I'm envious of his work, which pays homage to exactly the kind of garish mid-century populuxe ephemera that triggers a kind of lowbrow Stendhal syndrome in me. — Read the rest

Artist Mitch O'Connell says:

Bad?
Not really, I think they're so interesting and mesmerizing
that I shelled out the big bucks
(usually around $20) to have them hang on
the walls of the M.O'C Manor.
Btw, I've already willed everything to The Art Institute of Chicago,
so don't waste your time throwing money at me in the hopes
of prying any of these treasures from my grip.

…from the video rental section behind the curtain. Artist and ephemera craphound Mitch O'Connell dug deep in his archives to find these cinematic gems.

Yesterday I wrote about artist Mitch O'Connell's funny pencil sketches that Hanna Barbera commissioned him to create. Today, Mitch posted the paintings that Hanna Barbera commissioned. See them all here.

Mitch O'Connell says:

Back in 2003 I was asked by Warner Bros (who owns Hanna Barbera) to come up with my take on those great characters. I could choose from Atom Ant, Dastardly and Muttley, The Flintstones, The Herculoids, Hong Kong Phooey, Huckleberry Hound, Jabberjaw, The Jetsons, Josie and the Pussycats, Magilla Gorilla, Penelope Pitstop, Peter Potamus, Scooby-Doo, Secret Squirrel, Top Cat, Wacky Racers, Yogi Bear and a million more for my sketches.

My old high school buddy Mitch O'Connell, who used to wow us in art class with his Conan drawings, has a line of products for sale at Retro A-Go-Go, including some cool canvas prints that you can trick people into thinking are original paintings. — Read the rest

My high school art class buddy, Mitch O'Connell, drew these 30 temporary zombie tattoos. I'm going to have to order a couple of packs for my daughters.

You have love for the pale-skinned undead, so why not share it with the world?

My old high school buddy Mitch O'Connell has a new show opening at La Luz De Jesus Gallery in LA. It runs from October 2 – November 1, 2009. Incredible stuff.

Mitch O'Connell's imaginative, vividly colorful, smart and well executed artwork is undeniably and unabashedly old-school low-brow.

Rotofugi Gallery in Chicago will be showing new works by Brian Morris & Mitch O'Connel. The show is called Secret Handshakes.

May 22 – June 7, 2009. Opening Reception Friday, May 22nd, 7-10pm.

The delightfully demented artist Mitch O'Connell has a show coming up on April 25 and 26 at the Tattoo Factory in Chicago.

Mitch O'Connell, "The master of skin deep kitsch" according to Entertainment Weekly for his his newest book, Mitch O'Connell Tattoos will be there trying to unload giclee prints, paintings, skateboard decks and whatever else there's space for.

Due to popular demand for these high-art masterpieces, artist Mitch O'Connell and "the world's #1 master of digital glitter," Colleen Fry (think of her as Mitch's own "Robert Havell, Jr."), have created a new batch of holiday glitter gifs.

This season, show some class and attach a glitter gif to every email you send! — Read the rest

I usually don't like animated GIFs, but Mitch O'Connell's glitter graphics are great. Link