The Pulpy Art Of Rockin' Jellybean (NSFW)

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Babes, monsters, cars and mexican wrestler masks - The signature ingredients of Japanese illustrator Rockin' Jellybean, who's art beckons from a more colorful decade which was rife with pulpy exploitation. RJB was hugely influenced by American pop culture while growing up, and it came to be part of his artistic DNA, mixed with a little zen art, like Ukiyo-e.



I'd like to call his style more 'poster art' oriented, replicating styles present in promotional materials for concerts and movies in the late 60's and 70's, with splashes of brash, in your face color and material in tune with the shock-factor tone that dominated cinema and music in that era. His artwork has been well received back home, being exhibited in BAPE (Bathing Ape) galleries as well as being sold at a Rockin' Jellybean store called Erostika in Harajuku. Always clad in a luchador mask, Jellybean continues to bring his wild visions to fruition on a daily basis.

The Pulpy Art of Ralph Niese

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Liepzieg based artist Ralph Niese put a smile on my face with his ridiculously fun art, channeling decades of pulp comic books, low budget VHS tape covers, smutty novels, 80's toy boxart and more into a really playful, tongue in cheek style that doesn't take itself too seriously.

From an artists standpoint, it looks like Ralph decided to visually take himself back in time and emulate what it would be like to have been an illustrator working in the 60's, 70's and 80's, complete with garish colors, cheesy fonts and insane premises. Aside from having that style completely nailed down, he's also ridiculously prolific in his output with hundreds of pieces in his gallery. Check out a small selection of his vast gallery after the break!