Tim Doyle
This one has been a long time coming! Nakatomi is proud to announce it’s first published comic- BAD CAT COMICS #1! Written and drawn by Tim Doyle with Grey Toning by Paul Maybury, this standard sized comic features a hand-printed silkscreen cover, and is signed and numbered by Doyle in an edition of 500!
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SpokeArt’s inaugural show, Bad Dads, is officially one year old! Holy cats! To celebrate their one year anniversary, Spokeart is bringing back the Wes Anderson inspired show with a whole bunch of new works! Last year I contributed 5 prints, but this year I only had time for the one, but I really think this one is the best of my bunch! I’m playing around with brushwork a bit more and finding new ways to do a non-traditional ‘traditional’ portrait. This 16×20 print is going to be available first come first served at the Spokeart opening in San Francisco this weekend, BUT- if there are any left over from this smallish edition (of 75), you’ll be able to pick one up from them next week when they list all the prints in their webstore, spoke-art.com!
“He Is The Zissou” is a 16×20 4 color hand-printed silkscreen, featuring neon inks and a split fountain, and is signed and numbered by the artist (Me) in an edition of 75.
-Tim Doyle
In a complete surprise, the readers of the Austin Chronicle voted Nakatomi founder, Tim Doyle as 1/2 of the Best Artist in Austin!
Why just 1/2? Because the results were a TIE. Whaaa? From the Chronicle-
Best Visual Artist- TIE: Jules Buck Jones; Tim Doyle
“Whether it’s Jones with his relentless graphite-and-ink renderings of the animal-riddled wilderness displayed in his Monofonus Press book Everglades and his one-man “Animal Again” show at Champion Gallery or Doyle with his Nakatomi Inc powerhouse releasing his own comics-influenced posters of pop-culture beauty to the world, our readers know what they like, and they like it graphic. www.julesbuckjones.com; www.mrdoyle.com, www.nakatomiinc.com.”
You can see the original article HERE.
Read Doyle’s response after the JUMP!
Austin Books and Comics has yet again asked me to do a print for their ‘Hot And Nerdy’ Film series hosted at the Blue Starlite Drive In here in Austin Texas!
This print is 18×24 and is signed and numbered in an edition of 325. There is a Blue ‘Night Falls on the Federation’ version that is signed and numbered in an edition of 150 as well.
The print is available starting TODAY in-store at Austin Books, and at the screening this Thursday at the Drive-In.
If you don’t live here in the Austin area, Austin Books is compiling a waiting list and will be distributing them on a first-come first-served basis to every one who sends them an email. You can email the directly through their store HERE. (Click the ‘Contact Us’ link at the top toolbar.)
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I wrote this review for a friend’s zine that it looks like may or may not ever come out. But, I’m really proud of the review, and I hope you like it-
The Last Action Hero is Smarter Than You-
I know, I know. You think I’m fucking with you. You think I’m affecting some stance so I can defend it with ironic statements, and I’m just trying to be a hip dick. But I’m not. I really, really like this film.
Now, keep in mind, I hadn’t seen Last Action Hero since it was in theaters…almost 20 years ago. I was 16 in 1993, and there’s no way I was prepared for the film I was about to see. I don’t think the damn world was ready for the film. Now, stick with me here- I’ll get to the WHY this film is so good soon enough. To prep for this article, I just re-watched it, and here’s a quick run-down/ refresher on the plot:
Kid (Danny Madigan) is a huge movie nerd, skips school to watch films in a run-down old cinema palace run by old-guy, much to the disappointment of his single-mother. His favorite movie star, Arnold Schwarzenegger is starring in a new release, Jack Slater 4, and the old guy who runs the theater has a print of it before the premier and the kid comes over to watch it at a midnight screening just for him. Once there, old-guy gives kid a ticket given to him by Houdini, and during the screening, kid gets sucked into the film-world, and starts interacting with the fictional wold there. Because kid has seen the first 10 mins or so of Jack Slater 4, he knows a bit about the plot and helps Slater foil some bad-guy plans. Bad guy in the film gets his hands on the ticket and uses it to come into the ‘real world.’ Jack Slater and Kid have to stop bad guy from killing the real Schwarzenegger, which would end Slater’s life as well. The good guys win, Slater goes back to the movie-world, and Kid keeps ticket. Somewhere in there is a cartoon cat. The end.
I remember when The Last Action Hero came out. It wasn’t what I wanted to see at the time. In fact, I don’t think it was anyone’s idea of what they wanted to see. The movie is a victim of audience expectations of what a Schwarzenegger movie SHOULD be. But if this movie came out now- I firmly believe the critics would be falling all over themselves to say how brilliant it is.
Put yourself in this position- Terminator 2 was Arnold’s most recent film…the man was an action god, a stone-cold killer, and could do no wrong. And THEN- he’s starring in a film who’s main intent was to play with and make fun of the trappings of the action movies you loved him for. In essence, LAH is making fun of the very audience it was being marketed to. And not only that- the REAL story going on is one about fictional characters transcending the bounds of the stories they’re trapped in, and wanting to run their own destiny, as opposed to the one written for them to act out on the screen. No fucking way was that going to work in 1993. Hollywood didn’t know how to market this, and audiences didn’t even know how to watch it.
Holly wood still doesn’t know how to market this thing- does this looks like the DVD cover for a movie where the hero gets rescued by a cartoon cat?
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Again, I was commissioned to produce a poster for one of my favorite movies for my favorite comic book store- Austin Books!
This Thursday, Austin Books and Comics is flying in Brian ‘Dante’ O’Halloran to be present at a screening of the original CLERKS film at the Blue Starlite Drive-In Theater here in Austin, TX.
With this poster, instead of focusing on one iconic scene, or do the floating-head-thing, I wanted to an Animal House poster thing where you show a bunch of stuff and scenes happening all at once, like the whole movie happening in one image.
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Just a quick note-
I get requests every now and then for original art from past pieces. Just to let all of you know, these are available! If there is an older (or newer) piece of mine that you’d like to get the original artwork from, shoot me an email!
We’re actually selling some right now on eBay HERE (including the above pictured Transformers Movie print art). We’ll be listing one a night for the next week or so, so keep you eye on that eBay store!
There’s also a small list and images of originals on my Flickr feed HERE.
We don’t have everything up in the gallery yet, so if you don’t see it, let me know.
Thank you-
Tim Doyle
I’m really happy to have been able to do this print. It feels like I’ve been drawing Tranformers in one way or another for my ENTIRE life. There’s a file full of old Crayon drawings of Optimus Prime in my parent’s house right now. I loves me some robots.
I am constantly and pleasantly surprised by Hollywood’s restraint in not making a Transformers movie SINCE 1986. It’s really charming that this great property has been allowed to exist pure and undamaged in the memories of everyone who grew up in the 1980’s. I mean, can you imagine if they let some dumb-ass lowest-common denominator director dirtbag take a huge dump all over Transformers? And if they cast some schlub with a face like a foot in the lead, and tried to ‘sex it up’ with some bomb-shell in a crappy tacked on romantic story?
Good thing that didn’t happen.
DID. NOT. HAPPEN.
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Look at that freaking line.
Ken Harman, the owner/ operator of Spoke Art was kind enough to fly me and the wife out to San Fran for the weekend for the West Coast debut of Quentin V. Coen. They gave away my Big Lebowski Handbill set, “Sometimes There’s a Man”, to the first 50 attendees, and that did not last long!
The show on Thursday was a blast, and it was really great meeting and talking to everyone who came out. I got to meet a couple of artists at the show, including Greg Gigart, Serge Gay Jr, and Oliver Barret. Let me say one thing, Serge Gay Jr. is a handsome, handsome dude. I will have to steal his powers.
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I was asked to participate this year in Poster Cabaret’s annual Bike Print show, and my piece is pictured above!
The gallery opening was on 5/5 at Gallery Black Lagoon here in Austin, and it was a killer show, with over 60 prints by artists from all over the globe.
Poster Cabaret has just listed the show on line, and all prints are now available for purchase. My print, “Vietnam on Wheels” is a 3 color 16×20 hand printed poster, signed and numbered in an edition of 75. Poster Cabaret has the entire edition, so if they sell out there, none will be available on my site!
You can pick them up HERE.
Thank you,
Tim Doyle