Wednesday, December 31, 2008

People Who Died

This week my People Who Died illustrations are being ran in Baltimore, San Antonio, Cleveland, and Detroit. Here are a couple of the covers and three of the the ten portraits I drew.






Sunday, December 14, 2008

Equality Rocks


"I want one of those guitars that's like a double guitar" The Simpsons will always be my best muse.

Another Cash


This and a lot of newer Cash portraits will be for sale soon on my etsy site at www.alexfine.etsy.com

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Monday, December 1, 2008

Oranges Band/ Impossible Hair tour poster drawing


This is the ink drawing that will soon be a poster for The Oranges Band/Impossible Hair European tour. I will post the final tomorrow.

Sunday, November 30, 2008

2 Piece and a Biscuit



My greaziest poster to date. Come out to Joe Squared this Thursday and light a chicken with a bunch of lowbrow arteests including myself and many more of Baltimore's finest.

Friday, November 28, 2008

STELLA!!!!

Here are 3 out of the 30 quick illustrations I just drew up for David Wain for his traveling comedy group Stella. David is extremely funny and directed one of my favorite movies Wet Hot American Summer. He also has an online show called Wainy days which is also hilarious. I had 2 days to really work on the 30 illustrations so they are pretty quick and simple. They will be projected at each show during a parady of the song "Moving Out." David Wain along with his friends Michel Ian Black and Michael Showalter from 90's sketch comedy show The State are on tour starting this Saturday so be sure to check them out.



Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Ann Coulter's Duh Face


I took a break from a project I've been working on for David Wain(The State, Stella, etc.) to do an illustration of Ann Coulter for Phawker.com. The final image has her with her jaw wired shut but I liked the first one better as an illustration.

Monday, November 24, 2008

Phonte Illustration


Spot illustration for Philly Weekly of Phonte from the hip hop group Little Brother. I drew him with long hair and glasses from the cover of his 80's influenced record.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Bring back the mixtape



Here are two versions of an illustration I just did for the City Paper about holiday mix tapes.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Obama Wins!!!!!!!! Time to start fixing the mess of the last 8 years



Unpublished illustration. I was so happy he won that I started drawing for fun.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

A couple new posters




I wanted to do the type by hand but I've been short on time. I might rework the type later.

Monday, October 27, 2008

Lots of line backgrounds....


I just like lines is all. Maryland native Wayna for Philly Weekly.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Slots in Maryland




Baltimore City Paper cover for tomorrow's issue. The cover story is on who wins from the vote to either legalize slots or keep the novelty gambling machines in business.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Stephen Merritt Interview


This is for an interview with Magnetic Fields singer Stephen Merritt. He mentions that he recently started playing the harp.....he's also from New York.

Monday, October 13, 2008

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Nikka Costa is Free


My usual spot assignment for Philly Weekly. This week is about Nikka Costa breaking away from Virgin Records to record on her own.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Knock Out Punch


I recently received an assignment from the San Antonio Current to design a cover illustration for their presidential election issue. They asked me to come up with a concept that was humorous and symbolized the overall feeling of the candidates. I felt that the vp debate was the final blow to the McCain campaign.

Monday, October 6, 2008

Romania


This is for Roman Kuebler's solo project. Check out his song of the month website at www.every7th.com.

Friday, October 3, 2008

Last minute Obama/Springsteen poster


For tomorrow's rally in Philly. I felt like I should make this a little less punk rock than my usual posters.

Scary Times...

Monday, September 29, 2008

Lemmy and Willie....wrinkly fun


This was for an article about two concerts coming to Philadelphia next week. Motorhead and Willie Nelson.

A couple posters


Friday, September 12, 2008

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

No Respect



Poster for the Sidebar's punk rock standup tour. Who better than Rodney to sell this event.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Hon-Dead



Poster for Peter and Molly for the next Pain Of being Dead art/music show about zombies and monsters.

Friday, August 15, 2008

Phelps the Red Carp



Jonathan at Phawker.com asked my to draw Michael Phelps for an up to the minute update on every time Phelps wins a gold medal. I found a Chinese painting of a red carp jumping out of the water and exceeding its goal of just swimming to a gate. I thought this was fitting for Phelps and will add another carp for every medal he wins.

Monday, August 11, 2008

To all my Boston friends..



This week's cover of Boston's Weekly Dig.

Isaac Hayes RIP


Yesterday was a strange day. I got my weekly assignment for Philadelphia Weekly and it was to draw Isaac Hayes. It was for the Stax Records Anniversary celebration that Hayes was supposed to host. (The logo for Stax Records is snapping fingers just in case you didn't know why I drew him in this pose) Anyway, I come home yesterday ready to color in the drawing I did in the morning to find that Hayes had passed away sometime during the day yesterday. I wasn't sure if they were still going to use the illo but it turned into a memorial column for Hayes so the illustration still worked.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

KEXP Poster



Here is a poster I just finished for KEXP Radio in Seattle. They are printing posters to advertise new bands on the rise. This version hasn't gone through final approval yet but I think this will be the one we're going with. The plan is to print 40.000 copies to give away at Seattle's annual music fest Bumbershoot.

Monday, June 30, 2008

3 illustration, 2 shows, and 1 long, sick, weekend


For Phoenix Magazine. The article is about the woman who was afraid to pull over for a cop on a dark road and was finally pulled over where the cop proceeded to smash her window and arrest her. She was going 10 miles over the speed limit.


For Baltimore City Paper. The article is about the connection between Dennis Wilson's final album and a reissue of a Droids album.


For Philly Weekly about math rockers Polvo.