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June 6, 2014
“FINGUS APOCALYPTICON” Gallery Show / Art from the Post-Apocalyptic Imagination of BOB FINGERMAN
BOB FINGERMAN GALLERY SHOW OPENING: 6/12/2014
Thu, June 12, 8pm – 10pm GMT-04:00 • Art on A Gallery and Shop 24 Avenue A, New York, New York 10009
I’m happy to announce my first commercial gallery show is happening in June. FINGUS APOCALYPTICON, a collection of irradiated art, will be on show (and all for sale) at Art on A Gallery in downtown New York City. Featuring art from my web series of the same name and from my post-apocalyptic graphic novel FROM THE ASHES, come on down and visit my merry mutants in the (sometimes scaly) flesh.
Opening reception on Thursday, June 12th, at 8PM. Join the artist to chat, look at art, eat some grub and drink some wine and beer.
“FINGUS APOCALYPTICON”
Art from the Post-Apocalyptic Imagination of
BOB FINGERMAN
ALL ORIGINAL ARTWORK – Framed & for Sale!
OPENING RECEPTION 8PM
Food & Spirits!
Food provided by Three of Cups
Afterparty at Three of Cups Lounge
Preview Gallery Here:
http://www.artonagallery.com/artists/fingerman/fingerman.html
“Fingerman is a brilliant satirist, artist and mind.”
-Trey Parker, South Park; The Book of Mormon
Bob Fingerman is the award-winning creator of such critically acclaimed graphic novels as Beg the Question, White Like She and Recess Pieces, as well as the novel Bottomfeeder. In Bottomfeeder, Fingerman took on the vampire genre, tossing away the typical gothic and romantic trappings in favor of portraying the down to earth story of a working class Queens-bred vampire. In Recess Pieces, he whipped up a bloody maelstrom of adorable moppets and the living dead set within the confines of a school. With the satirical From the Ashes, Fingerman coined the phrase “speculative memoir,” and pitted himself and his wife, Michele, against the post-apocalyptic ruins of the world.
In 2013, under the auspices of longtime fan and creator of The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman, Fingerman’s signature work in comics, Minimum Wage, was collected in the coffee table book Maximum Minimum Wage, spurring him to return to Minimum Wage as an ongoing series from Image.
It is Fingerman’s borderline obsession with things post-apocalyptic that lead him to create the art featured in this show, Fingus Apocalypticon, primarily featuring a host of cuddly mutants and original art from From the Ashes.
Show runs 6 weeks.
CLOSING RECEPTION JULY 24TH. 8pm
May 1, 2014
Teaser Pencils of Panel from Forthcoming MW#6
Teaser panel-in-progress from MW#6 (coming in June).
©2014 Bob Fingerman
April 25, 2014
Working on the Cover of the First Trade
The first six issues of Minimum Wage will be collected as the GN Minimum Wage, Book One: Focus on the Strange, coming in October. I am a big fan of vintage paperback covers and their design, so I will be paying homage (again) to that era.
Finished pencil drawing.
Thumbnail concept drawing.
Minimum Wage Debuts in France!
Received copies of the French edition! Couldn’t be more pleased with how it came out. A really handsome, high-quality item. I would expect nothing less from Les Humanoïdes Associés. So proud to be part of their publishing family. If you happen to be in France, drop by your local BD shop and pick up a copy.
February 13, 2014
Working on MW#5
Working on MW#5. The very recently late and lamented Gray’s Papaya on West 8th Street makes its appearance. I had originally set the scene in Washington Square Park, but when I heard the news of Gray’s closure I swapped it to pay tribute.
February 1, 2014
Panel
Working on first page of Chapter 5. Here’s a detail of the splash panel.
January 28, 2014
Thumbnailing It
Me thumbnailing MW#6.
Doing thumbnail layouts for MW#6.
These tiny hieroglyphs guide me so that later I can think less and draw more. Sort of.
January 22, 2014
Making of the Cover: MW#4
I wasn’t sure this cover would pass muster, but publisher Eric Stephenson gave it the thumbs up. From concept rough, to pencils, to inks, to finish:
