After the madness that was Comic-Con 2012, things have been a little more quiet than usual on the Limited Paper front.  But don’t worry!  We’re not cutting back.  Truth is, we’ve just had a ton of catching-up to do here at Collider HQ:  film set visits that needed to be reported, interviews to transcribe, booze-soaked canoe trips to document–there were times that it felt like our non-poster-related reporting would never end.But today we’re back with a brand-new installment of your preferred Collider.com column, and there’s much to share.  What’s Mondo doing this weekend in Kansas City?  What artists are taking part in Acid-Free Gallery’s Myths and Monsters shows?  Wanna know where you can get a sweet Akira poster?  Any Ken Taylor fans in the audience?  There’s a ton of answers waiting for you after the jump, my fellow screenprint-enthusiasts.Well, folks, Comic-Con 2012 is over for another year.  The madness has started to die down (though if you’re one of the unlucky people that purchased SDCC prints off eBay—only to discover that you’d purchased from someone who had no friggin’ idea how to get your poster into a tube and a tube through the mail without turning said poster into confetti—the madness will probably continue for just a little while longer), frames (and elaborate trades) are being made, and people are starting to look ahead to the next exciting, poster-related event.As it turns out, there’s nothing super-huge on the horizon at the moment, but there are a number of smaller events that’ve caught our eye here at Limited Paper HQ.  And before we lose yet another weekend to travel, we thought it’d be prudent to bring you up to speed on all of those events:  some of them are very exciting, indeed.  For instance….ACID-FREE GALLERY ANNOUNCES MYTHS AND MONSTERSYou might remember Acid-Free Gallery as the website that released that awesome Beauty and The Beast poster by Tom Whalen earlier this year.  Well, the Acid-Free guys are back with another monster-related batch of prints, and this time Whalen’s accompanied by a few other kick-ass artists:  guys like Graham Erwin, Dave Perillo, and the never-not-impressive Laurent Durieux have banded together for Acid-Free Gallery’s Myths and Monsters, a series which goes on sale this Friday.  Here’s what Acid-Free has to say about their show, via email:

Our next print release will feature various Myths and Monsters from all realms. Explore creatures and characters from Greek Mythology. Tap into modern myths and legends like BigFoot, vampires and more! We have gathered another all-star cast to bring you some of the best Myths and Monsters to hang on your walls! The artists include(alphabetical): Charles Santoso, Daniel Torres, Dave Perillo, Graham Erwin, Jeff Kilpatrick, Jerrod Maruyama, Laurent Durieux, Matt Kaufenberg, N.C. Winters, Samuel Ho, Scott Derby, Steve Thomas, and Tom Whalen.  We will be featuring a Limited Edition Screen print release by Laurent Durieux! Stay tuned for more details! Print release preview on July 25th! All prints will go on sale on July 27th!

Wanna see some of the posters being released during this drop?  Of course you do.  Let’s take a look at some of our favorite pieces from Acid-Free’s Myths and Monsters show, in no particular order:

  • Bigfoot National Park by Laurent Durieux
  • 16x24”
  • $55 screenprint edition of 150, $65 variant screenprint edition of 75 (with GID Bigfoot!)

  • Yeti by Tom Whalen
  • 12x24”
  • $50 regular giclee edition of 30, $200 canvas giclee edition of 2
  • Cyclops Island by Graham Erwin
  • 18x24”
  • $40 regular edition of 50, $175 canvas giclee edition of 1

  • Have You Seen Me? by Dave Perillo
  • 16x20”
  • $45 regular giclee edition of 30, $185 canvas giclee edition of 1

There are a ton of other pieces in this collection—screenprints, giclees, canvas giclees, you name it—and all of them are worthy of your attention.  As the guys at Acid-Free Gallery told us above, all of these are going to go on-sale Friday afternoon at this page, so keep your F5’ing fingers at the ready and be prepared to clear some space on your wall for some of these awesome posters.  Our favorite’s gotta be Durieux’s Bigfoot poster…but Whalen’s Yeti is pretty damn snazzy, too.  Head on over to Acid-Free Gallery’s page right now to bookmark it, and good luck on the drop tomorrow, guys!

JASON EDMISTON UNLEASHES THE HAND OF MING UPON AN UNSUSPECTING POPULACE

Of all the posters that we saw at the 2012 SDCC, Jason Edmiston’s Hand of Ming might have been the most impressive:  the artist’s giclee edition of the canvas original (which, you might recall, made its big debut during the opening of the Mondo Gallery at this year’s SXSW) is absolutely jaw-dropping in-person, packed with detail and rich colors that launch themselves right off the paper and into your dumbfounded face.  During the Con, Edmiston (one of the friendliest, most welcoming artists I had the pleasure of encountering during SDCC) was selling the smaller edition of this piece, but he told me that he’d soon be offering an extremely limited-edition 24x36” version via his website.

Well, folks, that time has come:  tomorrow morning, the remaining 18x27.5” versions of the print go on sale…along with the big-ass 24x36” edition.  Here, check it out:

  • The Hand of Ming by Jason Edmiston
  • $75 (18x27.5”) regular edition of 75
  • $150 (24x36”) limited edition of 10

See what I mean?  If you’re an Edmiston fan, a Flash Gordon fan, a fan of awesome artwork, or if you’re just looking to purchase a piece that I’d consider one of the best posters released this year, you need to keep your eyes trained on Edmiston’s Etsy show tomorrow morning around 8am, CST.  That’s when the drop happens, and I don’t imagine that these are going to last very long.  I reached out to Edmiston for a quote about this piece, and here’s what he had to say:

My painting "The Hand of Ming" is now available as a limited giclee. This piece was originally created for Mondo' inaugural gallery show back in February of this year. The show's theme was science fiction films, and I wanted to do a portrait of a great cinematic villain. I hadn't seen Flash Gordon since I was a kid, but Ming the Merciless' character and costume stood out in my mind. I loved the colors and over the top design, and felt that he was an under appreciated tyrant. I imagined focusing on his hands and ring (the source of his power), and immediately thought of the pose Lugosi struck in the movie White Zombie, where he is summoning his evil horde. Ming is a similar master of his minions, and I added the nebula behind his head to imply his mastery over the entire universe.

Thanks again, Jason!  Everyone else, get your credit card numbers memorized, your pages bookmarked, and prepare to do bloody battle on the field of poster-drops come tomorrow morning.  May the best men score!

Click on over to Page 2 to read the rest of this Limited Paper installment, including a new Alamo Drafthouse in Kansas City with The Goonies, prints for Star Wars, Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles, and a new "Thing Worth Getting Excited About."

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MEL BROOKS BY WAY OF THE CASTRO THEATER IN SAN FRANCISCO

If you’re anything like us here at Limited Paper, then you agree that there simply aren’t enough screenprints based on the work of Mel Brooks (what I wouldn’t give for a Martin Ansin Young Frankenstein, or a Tyler Stout Blazing Saddles:  the mind reels).  Luckily, it appears that the folks at the Castro Theater in San Francisco feel the same way.  Last night, Limited Paper received an email from someone associated with the theater, and here’s what they had to say:

For the (back-to-back screenings of Spaceballs and Blazing Saddles taking place this Friday at the Castro Theater), we've gotten Brandon Schaefer to create two new stunning images, both of which will be available in person at the Castro, as well as online. I don't know if you're familiar with Brandon's work, he's one of those "favorite designer's, favorite designers" type of artists…(the Castro) is one of my favorite theatres in the country, built in the early 1900s and still owned by the original family who built it! There will be a live organist playing showtunes before the oversized curtains part, it's a stunning original movie palace and I couldn't be more proud of our ongoing poster series with them.

And what do those posters look like, anyway?  Well, let’s take a look:

  • Blazing Saddles by Brandon Schaefer
  • 18x24”
  • $40 limited edition of 120

  • SpaceBalls by Brandon Schaefer
  • 18x24”
  • $40 limited edition of 120

Well, folks, if you’re interested in Mel Brooks screenprints, this seems like a pretty damn good opportunity to pick up a pair at a really reasonable price (and such small edition sizes, too!).  If you’re hoping to pick these up, keep your eyes peeled over at this link for whenever they drop online, or—if you’re in San Fran-- head on over to the Castro Theater tomorrow afternoon to pick up the pair in person!

MONDO BRINGS THE GOONIES TO… KANSAS CITY?!

In case you hadn’t noticed, the Alamo Drafthouse empire is expanding:  just yesterday, we got word that a new Drafthouse would be opening in San Francisco, and before that we’d heard that Dallas, New York City, and a slew of other cities were getting their very own branch of Tim League’s theater chain (which, for our money, is the all-time-greatest place to see a movie, ever).  What does this mean for all the Limited Paper enthusiasts out there?  Well, more opportunity for Mondo to come to your hometown to show a movie and sell an exclusive print.  Yes, the bigger the Drafthouse gets, the more likely it is that you’ll get to attend the same sort of Mondo events that those of us living in Austin have been so lucky to experience over the past few years.

Case in point?  This Saturday’s screening of The Goonies in Kansas City, MO.  Here’s what Mondo’s creative director, Justin Ishmael, has to say about the screening:

Six years ago, I moved of Kansas City to Austin, TX for the sole purpose of watching movies at the Alamo Drafthouse.  One thing led to another and I got a job there, eventually turning into my current position with Mondo.  Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that we’d be able to show The Goonies…in Kansas City…at an Alamo…with a poster.  Shows how much things can change in six years!  I am so excited to come back, check out the theater for the first time, and to meet all of you dudes!

Now, this Saturday’s screening of The Goonies is long-since sold out, but that doesn’t mean you should give up hope just yet:  if the circulating rumors are true, some of Mondo’s Goonies prints will find their way online, which means that everyone who doesn’t live in Kansas City will have an equal chance to snatch one up, hopefully sometime in the near future.  As for who the artist may be and what the poster may look like, all we’ve been told thus far is that the artist is a newcomer to the Mondo stable, that the print itself features “gold metallic inks”, and that it’s “awesome”.  Who could it be?  Stay tuned, folks:  as soon as the poster’s revealed this weekend, we’ll be bringing you an announcement!

RANDOM ODDS AND ENDS:  NEW AKIRA STUFF, KEN TAYLOR DOES NICK CAVE, STAR WARS PRINTS YOU CAN BUY RIGHT NOW AND MORE!

We’ve got a whole bunch of odds and ends to get through this morning, folks, so hold on tight:  it’s about to get bullet-pointed.  Below, we’ve got links and news regarding a new Akira poster (in multiple sizes!), an older Ken Taylor piece that has somehow still not sold out, information on where you can get some cool new Star Wars-related posters, and more:

*** If you’ve not already seen this amazing Akira print from Alexander Iaccarino (AKA “The Kid Who Draws”), well, you’re probably just as flabbergasted right now as I was the first time I saw this piece.  Available in two different sizes via Iaccarino’s website, this is one of the most impressive Akira-related pieces of artwork I’ve ever come across.  Check it out:

  • Akira by Alexander Iaccarino
  • 11x17” ($25) edition of 100
  • 24x36” ($56) edition of 100

*** Typically, we cover movie-poster-related artwork here at Limited Paper, but the piece below—a screenprinted gig poster for Nick Cave’s now-disbanded Grinderman—comes to us from one of our all-time favorite artists here at Limited Paper, Ken Taylor.  I had this piece listed as one of my ISO’s on ExpressoBeans.com, and a friendly EB’er messaged me to let me know that (against all odds) some of these posters are still available for purchase over at Beyond the Pale.  I checked it out, and—sure enough—they’re still up.  Follow the link, or just check out Taylor’s awesomeness below:

  • Grinderman (Melbourne) by Ken Taylor
  • 11.69x34.33”
  • $49 (AUD) edition of 375, signed and numbered

*** Special thanks to the helpful Limited Paper reader who pointed us in the direction of this page over at a website called Dark Ink Art, where the following kick-ass Star Wars-themed screenprints are currently available for purchase.  Here, check ‘em out:

  • Battle of Yavin by Mark Daniels
  • 16x24”
  • $60 limited edition (comes with signed card by artist)

  • Lord of The Sith by Steve Thomas
  • 18x24”
  • $50 limited edition of 150

  • The Princess by Joshua Budich
  • 18x24”
  • $60 limited edition of 150

THING WORTH GETTING EXCITED ABOUT OF THE WEEK:  CORKY’S POSTER WEIGHTS

People often email us here at Limited Paper HQ asking what we use to hold our posters down whenever we’re flattening ‘em:  “Do you use can of soup?” or “Should I just nail them down to my garage floor?” or “Should I superglue my posters to the radiator?  It’s got kinda a flat surface so that should be good right?”  Well, urm, no, folks.  If you want to flatten out your posters correctly, you’re going to want to use something that’s been specifically designed for that purpose.

I’ve heard horror stories about people mangling $500 posters by flattening them out with beer bottles (which have those little ridges on the bottom, which will—in turn—press themselves into the surface of your sweet, sweet limited paper once they’ve been sitting there for a while) or candles (which can tip over, spilling hot wax—or, if they’re not lit—wax shards onto the surface of your print), and both of those kinda things are to be avoided.  Instead, I’d like to point you in the direction of Corky’s Poster Weights, who makes custom poster weights that you can use to flatten your posters…without fear of them being damaged.

Above, you’ll see a set of Star Wars themed poster weights that Corky put together for some lucky buyer, and below, you’ll see the set of poster weights I’m currently using to flatten out a recent acquisition (and a very expensive poster, indeed:  that’s a Martin Ansin Metropolis).  A set of 4 weights will cost you just $20, and that’s a damn fine deal for the peace of mind you’ll get while flattening out your latest ridiculously-expensive purchase.  If I’d use Corky’s Poster Weights to flatten out a $1500+ poster, well, you know they’re reliable.  Head on over to Corky’s store at the link above and place your order today:  I promise you won’t be disappointed.

That about does it for this installment of Limited Paper, folks!  We’re still playing catch up on all the awesome coverage we gathered during Comic-Con 2012, so stay tuned for that parade of exclusive interviews we mentioned before (Olly Moss, Justin Ishmael, the Mondo guys, Daniel Danger, Kevin Tong, Jock, and more are still on the way), as well as new news regarding some very exciting forthcoming drops from Mark Englert, Mondo, and many more!  As always, if you’ve got something you’d like to share (or have shared) here at Limited Paper, don’t hesitate to drop me a line at LimitedPaper@gmail.com:  everyone else is encouraged to prattle on in the comments section below!

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And if you're just now catching onto Limited Paper, please take a look at some of our past installments here (you've got a lot of catching up to do, n00b):