Bob's Art du Jour: Eggleton painting from Garamania

Bob Eggleton's wonderfully ethereal-yet-truly-Gara-grody portrait from GARAMANIACAL is still available for your home gallery; check it out here.

Huge Thanks To Garamike Backers!!!

This is my formal Garamania THANKS to all the great people who funded The Becoming; this is truly a list of excellent people, and I am honored that each saw fit to fund my strange project!  Please take a moment to click the links below, too, to check out the good works some of my backers are involved in!

I will also take this opportunity to say that things are in the works behind the scenes, and the post-GARAMANIACAL re-emergence of Garamike will be happening soon... please stay tuned!

Adam Rabin

Aldo Santamaria

Alec W. Bauer

Alen Cileli

Ali Savitt

Alice Levitt

Allan Nordstrom

Amy Burke

Andrew Gold

Ben Nordstrom

Bill Dabelstein

Blake West

Brenda King

Camille Clark

Caroline O'Connor

Catastrophoea

Dan Cypress

David Dopko

David Fisher

David Miller
(http://www.pirogiunion.com/)

Daimyo

Hannah Wilhelm

Heloise & The Savoir Faire
( http://www.heloisemusic.com/)

Hilary Martin

Phinneus
(www.junktiques.net/)

Janine Flood

Jen Berger

Gwynyfier
( http://www.gwynyfier.com/, dirtylittlesecretradio.com)

Jessica Mainieri

Jill
(http://www.saxonrestoration.com/)

Joe Collins
(http://www.fromhousestohomes.org/)

John & Hopa

John Murray

John Ryan

Judy Baker
(http://www.fromhousestohomes.org/)

Kala Gillim

Kevin & Aziza

Kevin Chen

Kevin Liparini

Lori Lilly

Marcus Brown

Mark Dabelstein

Mark Nagata
(http://www.maxtoyco.com/)

Matthew Alexander Minor

Matthew Hastings

Maurice
(http://www.fanboy-confidential.com/)

Meghan Dewald

Michael Nedell

Michael Sundue

Mike Lewi
(www.facebook.com/8mmMovieMatinee)

Myesha Gosselin

Nancy Nordstrom

Nicole Seligsun

Jim & Nicole Shea
(www.shopfoe.com/)

Patrick Taylor!

Peter Wimble

Rachel Hooper
(http://www.rachelhooper.com/)

Richard Montanari
(http://mutantvinylhardcore.blogspot.com/)

Richard Siday

Richard Meow!

Rob O'Dea

Sam Mayfield
(http://www.lowerthirdproductions.com/category/tags/sam-mayfield)

Sara A. Nordstrom

The Succasunna Bauers

Troy Stith
(http://www.gorillamouth.com/)

Ultrakaiju



Rollin' in color

Behold two color versions of zapatoloco/Benoit Robitaille's "Rollin'" piece, the original of which was sold at GARAMANIACAL. Ben says that prints of this delightful image will be available soon... Garamania will of course keep you posted, dear readers...

GARAMANIACAL: one week left!!!

How did we get to the end of February already?

I'm getting the feeling that 2012 is gonna fly...

There's exactly one week left of GARAMANIACAL at FOE.  If you are able to get to the shop in person and see the show in all its glory, do so; it's a singular, monumental sight to see all that Gara/Pyg goodness together!

Wherever you are, click here to have a look at all the great work still available for purchase... an utterly amazing array!  Don't hesitate, though- shop early and often- after next Sunday, March 4th, it all comes down!

Still accepting Gara-fan art to benefit the MSPCC!

Though the contest has officially ended, you can still send in colored/cut-up/collaged/digitally mutated "entries", which will be put up on the wall at FOE for the remainder of the show run (through 3/04), and offered for sale to benefit the MSPCC.
GO DOWNLOAD YOUR IMAGES FROM THIS PAGE!and
THANK YOU!!!

More GARAMANIACAL

Jim Groman:

Chauskoskis:

Greasebat/Jeff Lamm:

zapatoloco/Benoit Robitaille:

Bob Eggleton:

Koji Harmon:

GARAMANIACAL Coloring Contest updates

A few updates on the Coloring Contest:

-Deadline has been extended to Wednesday, 2/08; entries must be received at FOE or mailed to reach me here in VT by that time.

-The random prize drawings will now take place on Friday, 2/10 at the opening night festivities!

-I still don't have a pic to share (hopefully soon), but I wanted to announce that the fourth item in the prize pool will be a one-off Garamon tribute Ojisan and Karakuri pair from Grody Shogun!

Click here to check out some of the amazing entries that have already rolled into FOE directly!  Remember, all entries will be for sale during the run of GARAMANIACAL, with 100% of the proceeds going to benefit the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children!

Thanks for reading, and thanks in advance for your entries, Gara-fiends!!!

It's getting more & more GARAMANIACAL

PLASEEBO/Bob Conge:

hellopike/Phil Staszkiw:

Robert Decastro:

Prometheum5/Ben Mininberg:

Michael Skattum:

Leecifer/Lee Gajda:

Mutant Vinyl Hardcore/Rich Montanari Jr.:

Ralph Cosentino:

MUCH more to come....

GARAMANIACAL previews & teasers

Matt Sesow:

Gorilla Mouth/Troy Stith (work in progress):

Toybot Studios/Kirkland Jue:

GUUMON/Brian Mahony:


Munktiki/Miles Nielsen:

PaulKaiju:

Much, MUCH more to come... stay tuned!

Garamania & GARAMANIACAL stickers are here!

These fantabulous 11” vinyl stickers (made by the good people of Sticky Brand) of Walter Parenton’s two terrific Gara-logos are now available for $4.00 each, mailed anywhere in the world.  Paypal can go to manordstrom@gmail.com; be sure to specify in the body of your Paypal message which of the three styles (Garamania, Garamania Diecut, or the amazing two-for-one goodness of GARAMANIACAL) you are ordering, and quantity of each.  Due to the insane level of busy-ness in prepping for all things GARAMANIACAL, I ask that online buyers allow 2 to 4 weeks for shipping.  These stickers will also be available at GARAMANIACAL!

  

Mr. Atom Gray enters the GARAMANIACAL coloring contest

Two beauteous hand-colored GARAMANIACAL coloring contest entries received from Atom today (you gotta embiggen):

YEAH!

Thanks, Gara-backers!

We are up and over the halfway mark with The Becoming, with six rally-days to go!

THANK YOU, Gara-backers far and wide!
I will not let thee down!

The Garamike face sculpt is still in its earliest stages, only roughed-in; Mike Ridge and I are keeping in very close communication on it, discussing and refining, but he’s doing a terrific job, and I can’t resist sharing a progress shot here:

More to come soon!

Douglas Adams told us…

… that the ultimate answer is 42; Garamon famously did a version of one of his favorite 80s pop hits, Level 42’s “Something About You” on his (sadly out-of-print) 1995 covers collection, Just Smashing; and we currently have 42 artists on board for GARAMANIACAL*.
Prefect.



*Yeah, I know, the show poster's not up to date w/ the full list of names... working on it!

New GARAMANIACAL coloring contest entries & new prize pics!

New shots of the prizes (all but one that is... the fourth prize I haven't received pics of yet... but I can tell you it's very Grody):

Download your images to Gara-color here!
Rules and details here!
Thanks in advance for your entry!

The Becoming of Garamike: Rally Time!

I want to make a special offer to anyone who donates $10 or more to the project over the next 10 days: in addition to items from the first two Backer Rewards packages (shout-out on Garamania and stickers), you will receive the following from the $200 level: have Garamike speak, sing or chant any message of 222 words or less in a video to be broadcast via Garamania and YouTube, or sent privately. 

Don’t miss this opportunity to severely delight and/or vex your family, friends and enemies!  Years of singing and doing voiceover work have left me with an incurable case of golden throat!  Even the barracuda-like sawtooth dental veneers in the mouth of Garamike won’t stop my sonorous tones from coming through (well, if sonorous is what you want… we could go with guttural or grating, too)! 

What could induce a “WTF!!” fugue-state more efficaciously than a close-up vid of a grotesque meteorite monster croaking out the Bee-Gees’ “More Than a Woman”, reciting a passage from Ulysses, or giving Gara-voice to your own original song or word-creation! 

Operators are (not) standing by… act now! 

THANK YOU!!!

The Becoming... 11 days left...

3 of about 222...

Getting down to the wire with the Kickstarter fundraising... huge thanks to those who have backed the project so far!  I greatly appreciate it!  Progress is being made, and Garamike is going to be nothing short of *AMAZING* in looks and performance (ultra-expressive and very durable)... but costs (latex, foam, epoxy resin, alginate, platinum silicone, special paints and thinners, Ultracal, labor costs for the mask-sculpting and painting) are mounting!  Please have a look at the Kickstarter page; there are some great Backer Reward packages.  I hope to have mock-ups of the two different t-shirts backers will be able to choose between very soon.  Any bit of help in bringing this thing to life would be greatly appreciated; thank you very much in advance for your support!

Two new prizes added to GARAMANIACAL coloring contest!

Pics coming soon, but two great new prizes have been added to the coloring contest:

• M1-GO Semi-Ningen (dapper green-suited version, brand new (from 1991) in unopened bag!
• One-of-a-kind GARAMANIACAL exclusive Grody Shogun Ojisan and Karakuri pair!

Get crackin', Gara-fiends!

Edmiston does Garamon

Jason's painting for GARAMANIACAL...



I have... no words...

Four more great additions to the GARAMANIACAL roster!

Amazingly, the show roster has grown a bit more!
We're now up to 40 contributing artists!
Toybot Studios/Kirkland Jue and Michael Skattum both got on board almost a month ago now; I added their names to the original GARAMANIACAL announcement, but just wanted to bring it up here, too.

Last week, we added Northampton's own Rob Kimmel (have a look at his great father-son daily comics blog, Wander Monster, too) and rising street art phenom Street Grapes (maybe you've seen his stickers in any given East Coast city... or in Sao Paulo...).

Stay tuned, Gara-fans!

Oh... have I mentioned...

...that there's a GARAMANIACAL COLORING CONTEST?

There's a GARAMANIACAL COLORING CONTEST!!!

WIN AMAZING GARAMON TOYS!!!

HAVE YOUR GARA-ARTWORK ENTRIES SOLD AT FOE DURING THE RUN  OF GARAMANIACAL, WITH ALL PROCEEDS SUPPORTING THE GREAT AND CRUCIALLY IMPORTANT WORK OF THE MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN!!!


GO!!!


Sorry for yelling, dudes.
I'm just excited...