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FOOD ONE

The Food Abides @ www.40ozcomics.com

About Me



FOOD ONE aka Jim Mahfood is a muralist, comic book artist, painter, gallery show organizer, and drunken freestyler extraordinaire. He has been working professionally as an artist since 1997, amassing an impressive cult following across the globe. His comic book work includes:

Illustrating filmmaker Kevin Smith's "Clerks" comics.

Illustrating various Spider-Man projects at Marvel Comics.

His creator-owned comic books include:

GRRL SCOUTS, STUPID COMICS, FELT, ONE PAGE FILLER MAN, 40oz COLLECTED, PUTTIN' THE BACKBONE BACK, BAD IDEAS, CLASSIC 40 Ounce, and many more.

He can be seen rocking the live mural art at various hip hop and funk shows around the country.

Food's art was featured in SLUG (Atmosphere) and MURS' (Living Legends) music video for the track "Early Morning Tony" off of their successful Felt 2 album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzVl3gLQWdc

His current projects include doing all the murals and menu art for the coffee shop in the Sarah Silverman Program on Comedy Central and doing all the art and ads for the new COLT 45 malt liquor ad campaign.

WWW.40OZCOMICS.COM
WWW.FOODONEART.BLOGSPOT WWW.MYSPACE.COM/SOUNDPROOFCLOSETNOISE

ORIGINAL ART For Sale at:
WWW.SCOTTEDERGALLERY.COM
WWW.FRESHLYDIPPED.COM
WWW.FRENCHPULP.COM

Clients: Playboy, Pabst Blue Ribbon, The Sarah Silverman Program, Okay Player, View Askew, Rhymesayers, Hollywood Records, Cartoon Network, Disney, Armani, URB, Spin Magazine, Phoenix New Times, Mad Magazine, Marvel Comics, Star Wars Gamer, Def Jux, DC Comics, etc.

NEW PROJECTS:
* MIXTAPE VOL. 1: brand-new full-color hardcover art book out right now! Classy! 48pgs. published by Image Comics.
*STUPID COMICS: PHOENIX EDITION: a brand-new, 96 page collection of those infamous Stupid Comics strips, pulled straight from the weekly Phoneix New Times paper. Political and pop culture satire a go-go! Due out APRIL 16th from Image Comics!

* COLT 45: I'm doing all the art for the new Colt 45 ad campaign. Magazine ads and billboards appearing everywhere.

* POP GUN Anthology: I have a brand-new 5 page story in this cool book. Full color! Comes out on Nov.21 from Image Comics.

"Stupid Comics" weekly comic strip can be seen at WWW.PHOENIXNEWTIMES.COM

Peep the Colt 45 stuff at:
WWW.TALESOFCOLT45.COM

Food One Credit Card Covers available at WWW.CREDITCOVERS.COM

My Interests



MAD FAT Shirt pictured below now available @ www.scumbagnation.com

I'd like to meet:



Music:

James Brown, Gary Wilson, Prince, Fishbone, Bad Brains, Madlib, MF Doom, Slug and Murs, People Under the Stairs, Z-Trip, Edan, Kool Keith, Fela Kuti, Drunken Immortals and the whole Blow-Up Co-Op Crew, Mars Volta, Death From Above 1979, Gangstarr, De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest, Run DMC, Living Colour, Led Zep, Black Sabbath, the Beatles, Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes, EPMD, Jeru, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, David Axelrod, DJ Shadow, Ornette Coleman, Sun RA, Talking Heads, James White and the Blacks, Jane's Addiction, the Roots, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, Slick Rick, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Augustus Pablo, Money Mark, One Be Lo, Lyrics Born, Ween, Agent Orange, the Ramones, Tool, Idris Muhhamad, Ugly Duckling, and much, much more....

Movies:

El Topo, Style Wars, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, A Clockwork Orange, Danger:Diabolik, Superfly, Truck Turner, Apocalypse Now, Crumb, Miller's Crossing, American Splendor, Amelie, How to Draw a Bunny, the Godfather, Good Fellas, Kung Fu Hustle, Taxi Driver, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, the Warriors, Grindhouse, Enter the Dragon, the Killer, Hard Boiled, Easy Rider, Shaun of the Dead, Pootie Tang, the Big Lebowski, Fudoh, Evil Dead, Sun Ra: Space is the Place, Raising Arizona, Kill Bill, and much, much more...

Television:

No thanks.

Books:

Fear and Loathing, Hell's Angels, American Scream, Basquiat, Manufacturing Consent, Traveling America Broke, The Jook, Einstein's Dreams, the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Blankets, Locas, the R.Crumb Handbook, and much, much more...

Heroes:

Bill Hicks, Hunter S. Thompson, Miles Davis, Dondi White, Keith Haring, Basquiat, Warhol, Vaughn Bode, Futura 2000, Noam Chomsky, and Chuck D.

My Blog

Cool VIDEO From Our NY Art Show! (6/25/08)

NEW YORK ART SHOW VIDEO!!!The cool cats at vimby.com did a segment on me and Bill Shag's gallery show at the Scott Eder Gallery from this last winter...http://vimby.com/video/life/us/all/detail/6680...
Posted by FOOD ONE on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:23:00 PST

New Drawings From Heroes Con! (6/24/08)

at:www.foodoneart.blogspot.com
Posted by FOOD ONE on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:57:00 PST

Sac Re-Cap! Me and Dave on TV! (6/9/08)

I have a re-cap with photos of our dopeass weekend in Sacramento at: www.foodoneart.blogspot.comThe funniest shit ever is that me and Dave "King Gum" Crosland even made the 10 o'clock news out there. ...
Posted by FOOD ONE on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:08:00 PST

Live Art in Sacramento This Weekend! (6/5/08)

LIVE ART IN SACRAMENTO THIS WEEKEND!!!Saturday, June 7 @ Empires Comic VaultDave Crosland and I will be painting with legendary artists MARK BODE, STAN 153, and SKINNER!!! This is going to be HUGE!2-6...
Posted by FOOD ONE on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:34:00 PST

New MAD FAT Shirts Available! (5/24/08)

@ www.scumbagnation.com
Posted by FOOD ONE on Sat, 24 May 2008 02:30:00 PST

KICK DRUM COMIX PREVIEW!!! (5/21/08)

It's been about two years since I've produced a brand-new original comic book. That's why I'm super-excited to announce this all-new, two-issue series I'm calling KICK DRUM COMIX!!! Both books are 48 ...
Posted by FOOD ONE on Wed, 21 May 2008 01:55:00 PST

New Art From AZ (5/20/08)!

at: www.foodoneart.blogspot.com
Posted by FOOD ONE on Wed, 21 May 2008 10:11:00 PST

Dope Events in AZ Thurs Night (5/15/08)!!!

Two cool events in Arizona tomorrow night: - Grand Opening Party/In-Store/Meet & Greet @ MAIN ARTISTRY...a dope new shop!with Flying Lotus, Myka 9, and Food One. 6pm-?16th Street & McDowell Rd. the Gr...
Posted by FOOD ONE on Wed, 14 May 2008 10:05:00 PST

New Interview! (5/12/08)

http://www.popsyndicate.com/site/story/jim_mahfood_interview /
Posted by FOOD ONE on Mon, 12 May 2008 01:47:00 PST

New Drawings From Dallas...

...at www.foodoneart.blogspot.com
Posted by FOOD ONE on Mon, 05 May 2008 12:35:00 PST