Artist and famous tattoo flash designer Mitch O'Connell has an art opening at Zombo Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA on November 3.
Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood is home to a growing community of restaurants, clubs and galleries. The area's newest and most hip 'n happenin' art space is Zombo Gallery!
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The wonderful Mitch O'Connell has designed a set of stitching patterns for Jenny Hart's Sublime Stitching. They look great! Link (Via Craft)
Previously on Boing Boing:
• Interview with artist Mitch O'Connell
Craig Yoe interviews the excellent illustrator Mitch O'Connell on the Arf Lovers blog. Mitch has a new book out called Mitch O'Connell: Tattoos.
Mitch, what is you first comic book experience?
My first experience professionally (kinda) drawing comics was around 1980.
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At a press conference today Mitch O'Connell (81) told reporters, "This week, there's been good bipartisan cooperation and a string of, uhhhhhh….."
He suddenly froze and stood silent at the podium for 30 seconds, when a colleague walked up to him and said, "You OK, Mitch?" — Read the rest
Going to a flea market with Mitch O'Connell is a bit like trying to get high with Willie Nelson: you can take pride in saying that you did it, so long as you don't get your ass kicked in.
I came close enough. — Read the rest
In 2015 my friend, the fabulous artist Mitch O'Connell, created this excellent illustration of Donald Trump as one of the evil aliens from John Carpenter's 1988 science fiction film, They Live. Once Trump became president, Mitch tried to install a billboard with the illustration, but no one in the US would let him. — Read the rest
Mitch O'Connell asks, "What boy wouldn't want to emulate the suave sophistication and rugged manliness of a Humphrey Bogart, James Dean, Steve McQueen, and that guy that lives in front of the 7-11?"
In 1989 artist Mitch O'Connell visited the Chicago Loop's last cavernous decaying grindhouse on its final day of operation.
When Trump told the J6 rioters "we love you, you're very special," perhaps the most lovable and special rioter in the eyes of the orange-tinted fascist was Guy Reffitt. A leader of the Three Percenters (a violent extremist movement), Reffit wore a camera on his helmet during while leading rioters in the assault on the U.S. — Read the rest
My friend Mitch O'Connell, "The World's Best Artist," recreated the cool shirts featured in an episode of Leave it to Beaver and is selling them on his site.
If you never saw the peewee version of 'The Wild Ones' on tv and are a little confused about what I'm yacking about, watch it for free.
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Yep, the Beatle was tripping balls. Specifically, he had just taken a hit of DMT with famed 1960s art dealer Robert "Groovy Bob" Fraser. From the NME quoting a paywalled Sunday Times interview:
"We were immediately nailed to the sofa… And I saw God, this amazing towering thing, and I was humbled.
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My friend Mitch O'Connell (that's O'Connell, the world's greatest artist, not McConnell, the invertebrate fascist symp), sent me a cache of Trump Tijuana Bibles, secreted in Tony Schwartz's 1987 book, The Art of the Deal.
Tijuana Bibles are little 8-panel pornographic comic books that were popular during the Great Depression, and usually starred famous comic strip characters, like Blondie, Popeye, Dick Tracy, and Mickey Mouse, engaging in all manner of carnal congress. — Read the rest
Artist Mitch O'Connell has curated a sizeable gallery of swingers ads from old magazines. Some are not safe for work. All are a testament to the varieties of the human experience.
A few months ago my artist pal Mitch O'Connell launched a crowdfunded plan to pay tribute to the cult classic movie They Live, about a race of space creatures who secretly take over Earth by brainwashing people into supporting policies that are bad for them. — Read the rest
My dear old friend Mitch O'Connell designed the art for this fabulous They Live tribute billboard, and he's looking for your support to rent billboard space for it.
"Clear Channel Outdoor" tells me renting one month of a 10' 5" by 22' 8" billboard can be had for as cheap as $850, plus a production fee of $225 every 60 days.
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Mitch O'Connell has designed not just one, but two T-shirts depicting Donald Trump as one of the elitist alien creatures from John Carpenter's cult classic movie, They Live.
My friend, the artist Mitch O'Connell, wrote, "I decided to stop waiting for Sir Paul to give me a ring requesting that I design his tour poster, and just went ahead and whipped one up.
So if you know the second cousin to Paul's lighting guy, someone who works at the dry cleaner where Paul drops off his shirts, or have 3rd row tickets to an upcoming concert, please pass along my art! — Read the rest
Our friends at the world's greatest underground publisher Last Gasp launched a Humble Underground Book Bundle! Pay what you want for digital editions of killer art/culture books by Mitch O'Connell, Basil Wolverton, Kirsten Anderson, Diane di Prima, the Cacophony Society, and more.
Mitch O'Connell is curating the the "M.O'C" Dirty Needle, an erotic tattoo art show, that opens tonight in Detroit.
Artist Mitch O'Connell has posted his astonishingly large collection of 1970s embroidered patches. I hope somebody starts making them again!