Mat Brinkman Comics

After last year s release of brian chippendale s maggots this work is the last major piece of the puzzle that is made up of the long awaited comics works from the halcyon days of fort thunder.

Mat brinkman comics. Although those days are now fading into history the work itself is only now finally getting the wider exposure. According to the book s back cover brinkman exhibited his monster heads in mail order monsters at max wigram gallery in london uk. Retail price 15 00. The copacetic comics company.

Mat brinkman is a founding member of the artist group fort thunder. Other artists of the group are erin rosenthal leif goldberg brian chippendale jim drain paul lyons and brian ralph. Retail price 125 00. In mat brinkman s heads 44 s print run of 1000 boutique comics publisher picturebox and the hole art gallery joined efforts.

I can t resist reproducing part of the gallery s press release. Scanned from the original artwork the layout gives the impression of a flip book with blank pages on the left and illustrations on the right. In 1995 he co founded fort thunder and the famed paper rodeo zine that was active until 2001. Brinkman was a co creator of the fort thunder artist live work space in providence rhode island from 1995 2001.

Many comic critics qualify him as the most influential underground comic artist of the past two decades. Brinkman s prolific output of posters comics music and films continue to be highly influential. The italian indie publisher hollow press has put out limited print runs of his influential collections multi force and teratoid heights and portland comic retailer and publisher floating world has taken on distribution duties in the states. Michele nitri graphic design.

Mat brinkman is the author of teratoid heights 4 41 avg rating 73 ratings 10 reviews published 2000 multiforce 4 70 avg rating 60 ratings 7 revi. I recently got a copy of expedition to the hairier peaks by mindflayer an excellent little noise duo project consisting of brian chippendale and mat brinkman. He recorded with the bands mindflayer and forcefield who performed at the 2002 whitney biennial in 2000 his teratoid heights comic was published by highwater books. Mat brinkman lives and works in colorado.

The work of legendary fort thunder co founder and comic book artist mat brinkman just got a new shot on north american shelves. Mat brinkman was born in texas. Kramers ergot 7 op rarity dan zettwoch frank santoro 10 more. Soooo stoked to finally hear this in it s entirety anyway here s the album art left and right halves of the inner sleeve art featuring drawings by both chippendale and brinkman i think i m not entirely sure.