ALEX PARDEE x Burlesque Design

Wes Winship of Burlesque Design and I go way back. Back in the late 90's, Wes ran LifeSucksDie, easily the pinnacle "fuck-your-culture" magazine of the 90's, and I made crappy little homemade comics, and we bonded over heartbreak and hatred. Since then, Burlesque Design has emerged and Wes once again helped create the pinnacle screen printing and design company along with an amazing team of printers and artists. The dudes are GOLD. I have wanted to collab with Burlesque for a long time, and we finally got a chance to work together when I launched the NIGHT OF THE TREEPLE apparel line.

We turned one of my favorite designs from the line into a LIMITED, 7-COLOR SCREENPRINTED POSTER! The posters were originally used as a promotional give-away at the release party, but since a majority of those probably got eaten and or/drinks spilled on them from the madness that was the party, we just released a slightly different version to purchase in case you missed the release party!

This poster is 19" x 25".
7 colors, Screenprinted by Burlesque Design, on Archival French Paper.
Limited to 300, but ZEROFRIENDS only has a handful available for sale.
Each print is hand signed and numbered by Alex Pardee (thats meeeee)
Price: $75.00
(Limit of 3 per customer)

CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE THE TREEPLE POSTER!

Here's the direct link to purchase:
http://zerofriends.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=28&products_id=214

And check out some dope photos of the printing process:

CROM show pics

"He conquered an empire with his sword. She conquered HIM with her bare hands."

APE went great.
CROM went great.
I love when things are great.
here's some pics from the CROM show, which is still showing at VARNISH in San Francisco.
Some of my favorite artists were in this show, Dave did a rad job of putting it all together.
enjoy:


The crowd...


Aiyana Udesen's beautiful entrance piece. Elvira and Conan > Mork & Mindy.


Nate Van Dyke


Lucien Shapiro's Emu Rider with Dave Correia's Vulture Crucifixtion in the back.


Wayshak and Correia


Brad Isdrab's Richard Simmon's Attack sculpture (My green Conan is in the background)


Close up of the SIMMONSes.


Jahkeeli Garnett

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Lucien's leading lady.


Robert Bowen


Bowen again.


My immature pieces.


Jerome Opena (Dave C on the right)


Jerome Up Close.


Lee Ballard.

Thank you everyone.

Night....of the MOVIES

So, Halloween was fun.



In the Bay Area, there is an overabundance of DJ's, BUT there is an underabundance of DVDJ's, so I stepped up to the plate and threw down on the DVD mix, which basically boiled down to me dressing up like R.J. MacReady and forcing my good friends to watch movies in a cold, dark room. And there was cheese. And Beebee.
It was fun. I'll post more pics soon, i'm in the middle of a work-storm.
Until next year....

"...and now APE will run red with blood again!!!"

Just a quick heads up before I don my Kurt Russell disguise and pumpkin the shit out of tonight.

Zerofriends, my apparel and publishing company, will have a booth set up at the APE Convention (Alternative Press Expo) in San Francisco this weekend, Nov 1-2.

Link to APE: http://www.comic-con.org/ape/

I will be floating around the booths (Zerofriends is BOOTH #150) off and on both days in my usual nervous fashion. But DS and Captain Shotgun will be manning the booth if I'm meandering, so come say hi to all of us. We will be set up alongside the usual gang of assholes, Dave Correia (Play With Knives), Jon Wayshak, Brad Isdrab, Lucien Shapiro, so come say hi, and check out a bunch of the new apparel in person as it smells better than online.
Also, we will be selling BUNNYWITH #2 for the FIRST TIME IN YEARS!!! Its been sold out forever and we finally had it reprinted just in time for APE.

And lastly, in addition to some of our regular Giclee prints that we offer, we will be debuting a new, smaller, but ULTRA-CUTE (god damn corgi puppy cute) 8 x 10 Hand Signed Giclee print available for only $10. Check it:



And on Saturday night, right after APE, is the CROM art show at Varnish Gallery that a lot of the artists at APE contributed Conan pieces to!

Hope to see you there.

Red Bull and the Horrific Beard Trauma

What the hell am i doing RIGHT THIS MINUTE???
Well....just wishing that i shaved because every other time i put the red bull to my lips, one of my mustache hairs gets caught in the grubby little magnetic and sharp lid and pulls them out. and then i drink them. But they give me energy so rock the fuck on.

Working on a new piece for Corey Helford Gallery.....
Needs to be done tonight...
More Red Bull and beard trauma required.

"Infidel Defilers. They shall all drown in lakes of blood."

Here are a few more little cute paintings that i did for "CROM", a group art exhibit curated by
DAVE CORREIA, featuring a handful of artists who are exhibiting new artwork all based around the CONAN movies!







The artists exhibiting are:
Dave Correia
Sean Andress
Lee Balard
Robert Bowen
Jennifer Chang
Jahkeeli Garnett
Brad Isdrab
Harper Jaten
Jerome Opena
Alex Pardee
Lucien Shapiro
Aiyana Udesen
Nate Van Dyke
Jon Wayshak

It's going to be fun, as the show takes place RIGHT after the APE (Alternative Press Expo) convention that most of us on the list will have booths at during the day.
So yah, go to APE, get some weird comics that have drawings of Cary Elwes, and then come over to VARNISH FINE ART Gallery and check out the CROM show. Here is the info, above is one of my pieces that I did for the show.

OPENING RECEPTION:
VARNISH FINE ART
77 Natoma St
San Francisco, CA 94105
www.varnishfineart.com

Saturday, November 1st, 2008
7pm - 10pm

Join us to celebrate the opening reception for Crom group show of artists participating in APE (the Alternative Press Expo).
Admission is Free; You must be 21+ to attend

BUNNYWITH #2 Comic Finally Back In Stock!!!

Well, after 3 years of being Bunnywith#2-less, we finally reprinted it in all of its demented glory and it is now for sale on zerofriends.com

click on any of the images to purchase, or just go to zerofriends.com



DIrect link to purchase:
http://zerofriends.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=24&products_id=210

Some info about the book:
"By Alex Pardee (that's me).

"BUNNYWITH #2"
B&W. 36 pages. Originally printed and sold out back in 2005.

This is the first time it has been available in 3 years!

Bunnywith #2 is a follow-up collection to the original Bunnywith Comic.

This new issue contains over 250 MORE Bunnies "WITH" something,

like BunnyWITH herpes, or BunnyWITH 7000 eyes. Yes, it sounds like a dumb idea, but it works
because the possibilities are endless, and the humor ranges from juvenile, to
way over anyone's head. And when we say endless, we mean ENDLESS.

This is the second issue out of four. When all four issues are complete, there will be
a total of 1000 Bunnies, thus the subtitle "My Book of A Thousand Bunnies".
The first printing of this book sold out within a month of publication, and since
has not been available until now. You NEED this book to live.

Did you see this shizzzz?

If you were anywhere near Union Square in San Francisco last week you may have seen these things plastered all over the MACY's widows. It was pretty crazy for me to see that.
word.

for more info on the treeple stuff, go to:
http://www.hurley.com/treeple

or go into Macy's and buy that shizzzzzz.

Official TREEPLE Party / Art Show pics

Well, it officially took over an official year, but the official "Night Of The Treeple" Cinematic Clothing Line that I designed with HURLEY is officially out, and officially CELEBRATED, as we had the OFFICIAL release party at Club 6 in San Franciscoffical. Let's go OFFISHING!!!

I was too officially nervous to have a camera on hand, but thanks to STEPH GRANT and WIlliam from JUXTAPOZ, here are a handful of official photos of the art show, shortly before CAGE, TOPR, GRAND INVINCIBLE, and PAPERVEHICLE OFFICIALLY destroyed the official stage with awesomeness in the musical department.

Enjoy.




Club 6, the official scene of the crime.




before the show started, I had to whisper my weight gain secrets to Cage.




Actress Sandwich. Me, the 2 lead actresses of the TREEPLE trailer (Marrissa D and Merisa B), and my favorite insanely hot walrus woman in the middle who's TOPR impression is uncanny.




Yah, all this shit was FREE! And EDIBLE! if you like paper.




JUXTAPOZ broke open the vault and supplied some familiar mags!




The Macy's crew holding the insane 7 color screen-prints that BURLESQUE DESIGN printed for the show! These prints were limited to the show, but zerofriends.com will have a handful of second run prints soon.







Sales-mistress, Laura from Hurley and myself.




Sean Leonard, of Zerofriends, sang "I kissed myself and i LIKED iiiiiittttt" all god damn night. Brad Isdrab and Lucien Shapiro sculpted an amazing Treeple installation that was pretty dangerous, but beautiful. And it was acting weird...like a tree.




Nate Van Dyke (right) showed up to prove that he's not taller than Alex Tarrant when there's a beer on Alex's head. FYI the person who took this picture was standing straight up.




THE GLOJ! (The Gorgeous Ladies Of Juxtapoz)







Jon Dragonette gave a thumbs up to the fact that he created the DOPEST PHOTO EVER for the art show. (see below)






Skinner, one of Sacramento's most prolific artists, made time to rip off his denim sleeves and come down to show some art and plot death, while the 2 people in the background just found out each other has herpes!




One of Skinner's pieces.




One of the new pieces i did for the show.




Robert Bowen


Legendary comic book artist, creator of the MAXX, Sam Kieth's piece.










With Joe McElroy from Hurley and WIlliam from JUX.



Rehearsing for the show with Robert Bowen, Aesop Rock, Cage, and F. Sean Martin. We ALL want to kill you. I promise.




Gratuitous desaturated uncomfortable shot.

Thank you to everyone who came out to the show and support us.
It was fun.

Now, its time to work on the Tree-quel, or perhaps part 3 of the Tree-logy.


For more pics of the art at the show, go here:
http://www.hurley.com/blog.cfm?aid=25493

and for a video, go here and go to the bottom and click play video:
http://www.hurley.com/blog.cfm?aid=25551