I Heart Cool Stuff

I’ve very often reffered to threadless on this site. Well, now I get to share the collaboration between Threadless and Andrew Bell. Oh snaps!! The shirt is a slightly more gory version of the creatures from his head. I’m not sure how I feel about the orange colored shirt, and at the same time– I notice my closet is void of color so I may just have to get it for myself. If you’re interested in getting it, it’ll cost you $25 at Threadless.com

In the meantime, I feel the need to say that I hope more vinyl artist release “select” shirts on threadless. Earlier this year I found out that tokidoki had released a shirt with threadless, so I really hope this is a trend that picks up. More than anything, I’m crossing my fingers for the female artists? Come on Kathie, Julie, Tara… we wants shirts!

Not originally planned, yet, somehow it’s going to happen– Andrew Bell is going to stop by both, KRNY and Chicago’s Pirate store to sign his life away to devoted fans. No, no, not at all– I was just kidding. He will, however, be signing a toy or the box of his new release: Kid Reaper. It glows in the dark and it rules! Click the image to enlarge and get details.

As soon as I got wind of these news, from my GID obsessed Mr., I knew I had to share. Andrew Bell is quite an awesome artist. I’ve bugged him twice for sketches for my book and I love them. I wasn’t around for many of his releases, so whenever that happens I always get a special kind of excited because I’m getting the chance to support artists when I was unable to for a while.

Anyway, Andrew’s upcoming KidReaper, due to release October 16th is nothing short of AWESOME. Not only is it a reaper, but it glows!! This is clearly going to be purchased for the Mr. and I think with a $50 price tag, it’s quite worth it, don’t you agree?

I’ll say it once and it’ll be enough: I will recognize an Andrew Bell anywhere. I’m trying my best to keep my head on my shoulders when it comes to all the news/exclusives from SDCC. Above, spotted on Vinyl Pulse, is a Mad*l- part of Mad’s Phase 3- created by Andrew Bell.

I’d look at the fella’s face and immidiately recognized Andrew Bell’s signature look. Apparently, Andrew has created the guy above for Frozen Empire. He should be dropping some time in December, how fitting. I hope he’ll cost approximately as much as Mad’s previous releases ($40-$50). I also want to know how many of him will be released, since clearly I want to get my hands on one. And, does his head glow-in-the-dark? Now, that would be even more awesome!

I haven’t seen Andrew in the “scene” for a while. Last time I spotted him in person was during NYCC, though I do know he was at Tim Biskup’s show. The man is quite cool and modest, as most of the artists I’ve met have been.  He, however, has a very cool demeaner, and I don’t mean “cool” like the high school days– I mean “cool” somewhat monotone and chill.

Anyway, it seems the man is working on something and that something is called: Nurikabe. I have yet to hear anything about it. I thought it would be a production piece, but it seems it may be a piece for an upcoming show? Not sure, but you can check his flickr for more shots.

I do, however, want to state that this piece is super simple. Under normal circumstance, I’d throw a hissy fit about how simple something is and I can’t help but hate Andrew for making great facial expressions. Clearly, I’ve fallen in love with those eyes, the mouth and that little sign he’s holding. He (Andrew) tends to have this effect on me. I want this little guy for myself, now please. Hit the jump for more shots and tiny details. (more…)