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JayJay (Bad Penny) Jackson

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About Me

JayJay Jackson. I'm an illustrator and art director, living and working in NYC. I've recently started a new business with my signifigant other, Freddy. We're silk screening clothing and posters which can be found at our new web site http://deathsheaddesigns.com. In the past I've worked in the comic book industry and the recording industry and in advertising, designing stuff. Most recently, I did world design for a new video game.



More pics of my work, extra bio stuff and merchandise like posters, shirts, stickers etc. are available on my web site www.seriousillustration.com and on Cafe Press and Zazzle , too.

..See all of my products at Zazzle

My Interests

Art: N. C. Wyeth, Gil Elvgren, George Petty, Brom, Coop, Howard Pyle, Toulouse-Lautrec, Frazetta, Norman Rockwell, Johannes Vermeer, 19th and 20th century illustration and all pin up art.

I'd like to meet:

A real ghost. Or maybe just Space Ghost.

Music:

Rammstein, Rob Zombie, Skindred, The Coffin Daggers, Powerman 5000, NIN, House of Pain, Tenacious D, Disturbed, Louis Prima, Alice Cooper, Joe Ely, Devo, Cherry Poppin Daddies, Conway Twitty, Sublime, The Stray Cats and all Brian Setzer, The Fabulous Poodles, Toby Keith, Run DMC, IAM, Fonky Family, The Ramones, Henry Rollins, Slim Gaillard, Screamin' Jay (my main man), Beastie Boys, Steve Lucky and the Rhumba Bums, Richard Cheese, Cypress Hill, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, White Zombie, Moxy Früvous, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Steeleye Span, Tiki Tones, Smash Mouth, CCR, Dick Dale, Primer Black.

Movies:

Grindhouse, A Clockwork Orange, Dangerous Liasons, Night of the Living Dead (Dawn, Day, etc), Richard III, Triumph of Love, Clueless, Emma, Beach Blanket Bingo, Clerks, The Road Warrior, Mystery Men, O Brother Where Art Thou, Star Wars, Bound, Starstruck, The Warlord, Shaun of the Dead, Creature From the Black Lagoon, Near Dark, Coffee and Cigarettes, Cecil B. Demented, Quills, My Fair Lady, Blade Runner, anything with Vincent Price and everything by Jim Jarmusch and Kevin Smith.

Television:

Entourage! (and Action!, finally out on DVD. It only took many years) Also Spaced and Black Books. And Rome.

Books:

History, especially English and French, books on forensic science and criminal psychology, any book by Anthony Burgess, Michael Crichton, Kinky Friedman, George Elliot or Jane Austen.

Heroes:

MyselfI am 79% Evil Genius.
I am pure evil. I lie awake at night devising schemes of world domination, and I will not rest until all living souls bend to my will. Take the
Evil Genius Test
@ FualiDotCom

My Blog

Dr Horrible!

If you guys haven't heard of this yet (and especially if you are fans of Joss Wheden's work on Buffy and Firefly) then check out Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog:http://www.drhorrible.comIt's a musical i...
Posted by JayJay (Bad Penny) Jackson on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:36:00 PST

Welcome to Earth!

A film I did some work on, Mean Time Productions' second feature, WELCOME TO EARTH (www.welcometoearthmovie.com) is the featured film the following Wednesday, June 13th, 8:00PM at the NewFilmmakers Se...
Posted by JayJay (Bad Penny) Jackson on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:06:00 PST

"Being Michael Madsen" gets 5 Stars From Film Threat

So, I worked on the film "Being Michael Madsen" (directed by my friend Mike Mongillo) and produced the graphics and photo images used extensively throughout the film. I loved the script so I was excit...
Posted by JayJay (Bad Penny) Jackson on Mon, 07 May 2007 01:18:00 PST

My posters are in "Riegn Over Me"

The prop people asked for some of my posters and I sent them a bunch. They mentioned later that they were using them in 2 scenes. I did find some stills of them in the record store scene. (I have plac...
Posted by JayJay (Bad Penny) Jackson on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:23:00 PST

Woohoo! Commerce!

So, being an easily bored (or maybe easily distracted) type...I have this constant pursuit of diversion that I deal with. It often involves avoiding real work and rationalizing doing fun stuff as some...
Posted by JayJay (Bad Penny) Jackson on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 03:34:00 PST

Living or Oblivion

It's not all that often (since I became a freelance illustrator) that I bother to notice the world and what's going on or wear "outside" clothes and shoes or even leave my apartment much, but Shane, t...
Posted by JayJay (Bad Penny) Jackson on Fri, 26 Aug 2005 05:40:00 PST