This special issue of Arkitip Magazine celebrates the world’s greatest sporting spectacle—the FIFA World Cup—seen through the eyes of New York City’s own Chinatown Soccer Club with support from official FIFA sponsor adidas.
Founded in 2002, the Chinatown Soccer Club is a crew of artists, photographers, designers, writers, skateboarders and like-minded creative individuals. This diverse collective, united by a passion for this beautiful game, converges on New York City’s Chinatown year-round in all weather and seasons for friendly morning matches before heading to work.
The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the 19th FIFA World Cup, the premier international football tournament. It is scheduled to take place between 11 June and 11 July 2010 in South Africa. The World Cup is the most widely-viewed sporting event in the world, where an estimated 715.1 million people watched the final match of the 2006 World Cup held in Germany. Italy’s team are defending champions.
Contributors:
* Gerhard Stochl
* Justin Fines
* Dan Funderburgh
* Peter Sutherland
* Kevin Trageser
* Dominic Neitz
* David Mashburn
* James O’Brien
* Colin Matsui
* Rachel Domm
* Chris Toy
* Andy Rementer
* Nicholas Haggard
* Ryan McGinness
* Atiba Jefferson
* Brad Elterman
* Misaki Kawai
* Alessandro Zuek Simonetti
* Oliver Kann
* Misha Hollenbach
* Art Director:
* Justin Fines
* Sample Pages
* 6.5 x 9.5 In. (16.51 x 24.13 cm)
* 160 pages + covers
* Four color offset printed, perfect bound
* Bundled neatly in a goal netting cord lock bag
* Hand packaged & numbered ltd. edition of 2000
* Packaged with a 18 x 24 In. (45.72 x 60.96 cm) Chinatown Soccer Club double sided 4 color poster
* Designed for this issue edition by Dan Funderburgh
* Including a Chinatown Soccer Club + Arkitip + adidas fan scarf
* Designed and produced exclusive for this issue edition to celebrate the 2010 South African World Cup
Enter the world of unrivaled imagination, where everything is unpredictable and anything can happen. Featuring over 120 pages of highly kinetic art from artists all over Asia, who have worked on films, video games, and comic books. TURBULENCE showcases creativity and craftsmanship at it’s very best!
Available in the Deluxe Edition and Regular Edition. (ORDER YOUR COPIES HERE)
Deluxe Edition includes hardcover slipcase and 8 exclusive wall posters featuring breathtaking art.
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By: Jason Vaughn
Hello once again to all of you comic book connoisseurs out there in cyberspace. It’s about that time for another random genre selection as we reach our hand into the musty cob-web covered Meltdown Genius Pull box. Here’s an excerpt from the previous mix for anyone who might have missed it (and exactly why did you miss the last one, hmm?) and may not be sure how this works.
“Every iTunes library now contains a playlist called “Genius Mixes.” It’s a rather intuitive program that cycles through your library and pulls together multiple mixes from the different genre types in your music collection. So this got me to thinking? What if you could do the same thing to your comic collection and pull list? Just *click* and you have a selection of crime dramas, *click* a mix of superhero stories, *click* and there’s a handful of your favorite horror books to lull you into a blubbering nightmare-filled sleep before bed. So until the major publishers catch on and start doing something similar on their own websites, every so often I’ll be highlighting a random genre pull of current upcoming books and compare them to some back issue favorites. (By the way, I take full credit for the idea, guys! You can send the royalty checks to Jason Vaughn courtesy of… oh, who am I kidding.) This way, you don’t have to go digging around in that closet where you hide all of your comics from your girlfriend. And guys, don’t act like you don’t know what I’m talking about.” Continue reading »
The landmark exhibition is now in print. Over two hundred pages including a 2 page spread for each helmet. For this unique project, each artist customized a 1:1 scale authentic prop replica of the actual Darth Vader helmet featured in the STAR WARS™ films.
Buy in-store or have some copies delivered!
Previously:
Meltdown Sunset Blvd. is lucky to host a preview installation of 5 STAR WARS™ DARTH VADER PROJECT customized masks. Tell a friend! http://bit.ly/VADER
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Meredith brings False Start Zines to @meltdowncomics
Meltdown Comics would like to welcome Meredith and False Start, her company of curated zine goodness. Read on.
Here is a bit of info on False Start zine department inside Meltdown Sunset Blvd. A welcomed addition to our Comics and Collectibles mix. Come check out a solid snapshot into the best Indy Books and Zines bubbling in the self published world. Expect to see Crafty/ Confessional/ Angry/ Folksy/ Bozo or just plain fun creations that catch Meredith critical eye. Stop by. Explore. Create your own. Repeat!
Los Angeles, for all of its art, music and culture, is sorely lacking in the zine department. This isn’t for a lack of interest, but a lack of community! False Start Independent Books & Zines hopes to create a more cohesive community built around a do-it-yourself attitude. The titles carried by False Start range from literary zines to punk how-to guides, diary comics to art zines. The main thread that ties all of these works together is aesthetics and a DIY attitude about art and culture. Too often people feel excluded from the world of art — whether it’s because they think they need a formal education to create it or don’t have enough money to buy it. False Start wants to put an end to that!
Meltdown Comics has seen the light and graciously given False Start a space back by the gallery to sell zines and comics in their store. And if you don’t want to brave the freeways and traffic jams to get your zine fix, you can always order from the website at www.false-start.com. Remember to check out the Events page on False Start too! There’s always great art, music and zine-related local events being listed.
Remember, Los Angeles, zine culture isn’t dead, it’s just hibernating. Well now it’s time to wake up!