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Detective Comics #31 print by Tim Doyle NOW ON SALE!

Artist/ Nakatomi founder, Tim Doyle was commissioned to produce this dark interpretation of a classic Batman Cover for the fine folks over at French Paper Art Club!

From Doyle-

“I was the first artist to be a part of FPC’s Batman print series, and was totally excited to be back on for a new print- this time, the assignment was doing my own version of an existing cover. FPC had access to the almost complete back catalog of classic covers to do re-interpretations of, and the minute they asked me I knew EXACTLY the one I wanted to do. Detective #31 has a LONG history of fantastic artists doing reinterpretations of, and I wanted to take my own spin on it. The original line-art for this piece was actually a watercolor painting I had done, and adapted for screenprinting- the same technique I used for the sold-out Batman/GCPD print I had done for them last year. I wanted to use the same BRIGHT colors from the original cover, but find a way to make it much darker in tone. As always, super-big thanks to French Paper Art Club for the great gig!”

This hand-printed silkscreen art print measures 18×24, and is signed and numbered by the artist.

Read more after the jump!

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CHANGE INTO A TRUCK 10th Edition- all Metallic Ink!

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CHANGE INTO A TRUCK 10th Edition- all Metallic Ink!

Available HERE NOW.

Change Into a Truck is by far the best-selling single print on the Nakatomi site. It was the first MAJOR viral hit we had shortly after launching the site back in January of 2009, and here we are, six years later, and doing better than ever. It’s the 2nd print that we ever did a new edition on (the first being the long-gone MurrayX6) and it helped define us as a company that focused on getting the art to the people that wanted it, and not keeping the popular medium of silkscreen printing to just an elite few. What started out as a deeply silly joke spread across the interwebs, and we still meet people to this day that tell us ‘This was my MySpace profile pic!” And then we laugh and act like we don’t know what MySpace is.

The art has been tweaked several times over the years, and has been printed as small as a 4×6 sticker up to a 24×36. It’s been on metal, it’s been on t-shirts, it’s even been a comic book cover. Way back in the day we were contacted by the ILM visual FX crew working on the Transformers live-action films, and they used the image on crew t-shirts.

Change into a Truck will NEVER DIE!

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End of year- 1/2 off sale on ALL MY PRINTS!

END OF YEAR SALE

For the next 24 hours, all TIM DOYLE prints, T-shirts, comics, and Postcards are available for 1/2 off of retail!

And we have dug DEEP into the archives- a lot of prints that we normally hold back for consignment shops and in-person events are now listed in the TIM DOYLE section of the Nakatomi store for a limited time only!

There’s some crazy stuff in there, so SCROLL DOWN FOR AWESOME, and see what rarities we have for you!

Didn’t get what you wanted for X-mas? GET IT NOW.

Forget someone on your X-mas list? FIX YOUR BLUNDER.

Want to get say- Every single Sea Also Rises print, and deck your house out in underwater chaos? NOW IS THE TIME!

These prints will never be cheaper! Everything is in hand and ready for immediate shipment-

PICK THEM UP HERE! NOW!

Thank you everyone, and see you in 2015!

-alex fugazi

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BAD DADS- Grand Budapest Hotel print- This weekened at SpokeArt!

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SpokeArt’s BAD DADS show returns!

For the fifth row in a year, SpokeArt will be hosting the Wes Anderson tribute show- Bad Dads- and for the fifth year in a row, Nakatomi will be there, representing!

Continuing Tim Doyle’s series of 12×24 sold-out prints, this year he’s tackled ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel” with his print– “The Author”.

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“The Author” measures 12×24 and is signed and numbered by the artist in an edition of 150 world wide.

The show opens this weekend at SpokeArt, and the prints will be on sale shortly afterwards on their website HERE.

-alex fugazi

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“Springfield” print- still available at SpokeArt!

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Springfield!

Hello everyone! Seems like the AV Club covered some of my Simpsons inspired art today- which is GREAT. You can see that article HERE.

I’ve been getting a lot of traffic today about these prints, SO- Just to let everyone know- the SPRINGFIELD print (pictured above) is an open-edition silk-screen print, and is STILL AVAILABLE at the SpokeArt site HERE. In daytime and nighttime versions- the nighttime one glows in the dark!  Each print is hand-printed in my shop, and then signed and dated by me!

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Everything else is sold out and out of print!  I’m super-happy a lot of new people have been discovering this work, and that we still have (in what is my opinion) the best one of the series still available!

Get ’em HERE.

Thanks!

Tim Doyle

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Shining print for SpokeArt’s Kubrick show!

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KUBRICK- art show at SpokeArt!

This SATURDAY SpokeArt will be hosting the next in their series of DIRECTOR gallery shows, this time celebrating the work of Stanley Kubrick!

For the show, Tim Doyle has created his first UnReal Estate print inspired by a movie, and the first time showing an Interior location. This 18×24 hand-pulled silkscreen print is signed and numbered by the artist in an edition of 150. (note, 50 will be held back for next year’s UnReal Estate 4 show)

This print is titled ‘The Death of the Author”

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“The Fields of Trenzalore” Oversized Glow edition

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Fields of Trenzalore- Oversized edition!

In honor of the Good Doctor’s return this weekend, SpokeArt has released a VERY SPECIAL 24×36″ Glow in the Dark version of Tim Doyle’s ‘The Fields of Trenzalore’ print!

This print is hand-printed in the Nakatomi Print Labs, and is signed and numbered in an edition of only 100 worldwide.

The print is available NOW from the SpokeArt.com website HERE.

Here’s a digital mock-up of the print, glowing in the dark-

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Pick one up while it’s still available HERE.

Thank you!

-alex fugazi

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Official Batman 75th Anniversary Poster prints!

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French Paper Art Club, in conjunction with Geek Art, are very excited to reveal their new series of officially licensed Batman prints, in honor of the cowled one’s 75th anniversary! Their debut print in the series is by artist Tim Doyle-

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“Gotham Police Department” measures 16×36, and is a 5-color hand-printed silkscreen art print. The regular edition is signed and numbered by the artist in an edition of 120, and a blue/glow in the dark edition of only 55.

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From Doyle-

“Back in 1989, when I was the tender age of 12, still reeling from seeing Robocop back in ’87, my parents took me and my brother to see Batman, starring Micheal Keaton and Jack Nicholson. And as amazing as the movie really was- it was Anton Furst’s design for Gotham that REALLY spoke to me. The claustrophobic nightmare of steel and brick that he created for Tim Burton’s film set the stage for the action, and made that crazy world WORK. It’s my favorite depiction of Gotham, and trumps any other interpretation of that fictional city. (Yes, even more than the Nolan films.) So, when I was asked by French Paper Art Club to produce a print for them, I knew I would HAVE to pay tribute to Furst’s vision. The red skies are my subtle nod to the beautiful Batman: The Animated Series TV show that followed 2 years later. I’m very pleased with the print, and so happy to have been a part of the first silkscreen poster series to celebrate Batman’s 75th Year!”

Detail pictures below, after the Jump!

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Two New THE SEA ALSO RISES prints now Available!

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THE SEA ALSO RISES- TURTLES AND SHARKS!

For the first time on Nakatomi , we have 2 BIG 24×36 prints in artist Tim Doyle’s ongoing ‘The Sea Also Rises’ series of prints, available HERE NOW.

Pictured above is ‘The Sea Also Rises: The Exodus of Turtleton’ which is signed and numbered in an edition of 200 worldwide.

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And this print, the newest in the series is called ‘The Sea Also Rises: The Fleet Deploys’, which also measures 24×36 and is signed and numbered in a first edition of 150. Features eye-popping florescent ink throughout the print!

We asked Doyle to share his thoughts on these prints-

The Sea Also Rises series is by far the favorite thing I get to work on. It’s been rolling off and on for 5 years now, almost as long as I’ve had Nakatomi. The whole series comes from a place of deep concern for how humans interact with their environment, and the long-range consequences of our actions today. And for whatever reason, the way my brain works means that concern comes out as Sea Monsters will rising up to take us out, to prevent further damage. These two prints were originally commissioned by PangeaSeed for their ‘Sea of Change’ series, which helps to raise awareness about several issues pertaining to the oceans, most notably the practice of shark finning.

Exodus of Turtleton depicts a city- turtle, leaving it’s post off the coast of Japan, carrying an Earth-Spirit serenely away to safety. It’s definitely one of the more up-lifting images in the series, as nothing is blowing up or being attacked! I thought a lot about my children while creating this one, and how I could use a large turtle to carry them to safety one day. Or just carry them for a few hours, so I can catch a nap.

The Fleet Deploys shows a water-witch witnessing the Hammerhead God and his children moving from the depths to unknown points on the globe. I’m not sure where they’re going, but it can’t be good news. I was a little concerned about putting the sunken ship in there, as it’s the only man-made thing in an otherwise pristine scene, but having a recognizable object gave the rest of the scene some scale. Instead of it looking like a normal sized shark and a bunch of small ones, you REALLY can feel the size of the beast.”

Check out these close up images below-

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These big, beautiful, vibrant prints are in hand and ready for immediate shipment!

Pick them up HERE NOW.

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SHINY PUNK!

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SHINY PUNK

Continuing Doyle’s new Watercolor portrait series- SHINY OBJECTS– Nakatomi is releasing this 2 print portrait set of the SHINIEST musicians of all timeHERE this WEDNESDAY 5/28 at 2pm Central.

From Doyle-

“For years- high school through College, I worked almost exclusively with watercolor paint. Inspired by seeing JUST WHAT YOU CAN DO with watercolor and gouache paint in the pages of Alex Ross’ MARVELS and KINGDOM COME really changed my opinion about the medium, and lit a fire under my ass to get working. As the years went by, I moved on to Acrylic on canvas and then screenprinting as my medium of choice. Well- late last year, I cracked open my old kit, and did some paintings for fun (which you can see HERE) and we released a few of them through SpokeArt as high-quality giclee prints. And the response was very large. Fast forward a few months, and we here at Nakatomi get a new film printer for our shop, and not only can it crank out large, high-quality films for screenprinting, but it’s also a high-end giclee printer as well! SO– time permitting, I’ll be releasing portraits like this when the mood strikes.

One of my favorite things to paint is metallic and reflective surfaces, and I’ve found watercolor to be uniquely suited for that task. The little surprising hints of color that creep into what could otherwise be a dull, grey steel- can really be fun to portray. So here we are- my totally fun, barely though-out new print series- SHINY OBJECTS.

I could go on and on about the music of Daft Punk, and how it slowly crept up on me over the last few years to finally take over my play-list, but hey- people much better at music criticism than I have already said it all. And the band is really, really shiny.”

Read more and see process pics after the jump!