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About Me

Born and raised in Chicago. Lived in Phoenix. Currently residing in Florida. I work as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. For the past 19 years, I've worked in the comic book industry as a digital colorist and painter. I currently work for Marvel and DC comics. After discovering punk rock during the early 80's, I designed album covers, t-shirts and flyers for various punk bands in Chicago. This led to abundant work as a silkscreen concert poster artist, supplying hand crafted promotional posters for bands and venues all over the USA throughout the 90's. You can check out my poster work in the best selling book, the Art of Modern Rock. I used to be known as "Trucker" in the poster world, or if you knew me and worked at the Metro in Chicago during the late 80's and mid 90's.
I was also a custom cabinet maker for about 6 years, so if you've stayed at any of the high roller suites at Donald Trump's Taj Mahal, you've seen my handy work.
For the past 4 years, I've been exhibiting my fine art and faux bomber panels in numerous galleries and group shows all across the US.
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"NIGHT PROWLER" Aug. 2007 - Enamel on hand riveted, weathered sheet metal - 45" x 38" - Available for purchase.
"SATAN'S SISTER" Oct. 2006 - May 2007 - Enamel on hand riveted, weathered sheet metal - 39" x 27" - SOLD.
"OL' NASTY" May 2007 - Enamel on hand riveted, weathered sheet metal - 28" x 34" - SOLD.
"CHUBBY BUNNY" Feb. 2005 - acrylic & oils on hand riveted, weathered sheet metal - 26" x 37" - SOLD
My new shirt design for Gasoline Gallery

My Interests

GOD, hanging with my wife and 3 kids, lowbrow art, comic books, cartoons, nose art, B-19 Flying Fortresses, B-24's, pickelhaubes, steampunk stuff, pin-up girls, vinyl art toys, cyanotypes, acrylics, oils, hot rods, rat rods, kustom kulture, byzantine iconography, greasy kulture, pinstripes, tattoos, tiki stuff, good smellin' hair pomade, chicago gangsters, vintage metal signs, screen printing, making stuff with my hands, old school punk rock (the classic stuff, late 70's early 80's, not this new crap), 50's rockabilly, posters, 'zines, stencils, grafitti, digital painting, anything art related...

I'd like to meet:

Artists, bands and anybody else who digs what I do.

Music:

Rocket From the Crypt, The Night Marchers, Naked Raygun, Effigies, DGeneration, UK Subs, Anti-Nowhere League, the Necros, the Damned, classic Social Distortion, UK Subs, Rancid, Sham 69, the Avengers, Rose Tattoo, The Generators, Hanoi Rocks, Smack, Zodiac Mindwarp, Demon Hunter, project 86, as well as tons of other old school (late 70's early 80's) punk and vintage rockabilly bands and a buncha other stuff I'll hopefully have time someday soon to post on here...

Television:

no time for that non-sense...

Books:

...anything I get to read to my kids for bedtime.

Heroes:

single working mothers

My Blog

Sinner... pt. 2

So, I got pics of final sculpt today. Sinner is going to be on his way here sometime next week, so i can see him in person and go over any final details or changes with the sculptor before we go into ...
Posted by robschwager on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:15:00 PST

the Sinner...

So, I'm planning on doing a low-run, limited edition, hand-painted run of my "Sinner" figure. Seen here, in it's raw form, beautifully sculpted by George Helmick from studio-g-designs. The figure st...
Posted by robschwager on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:47:00 PST

Devils & Angels

So, as most of you folks who read my blog already know, I'm VERY partial to the Kustom Kulture art scene. It's the art I like to look at, it's the art that I buy, the art I make, etc.... Some of you e...
Posted by robschwager on Sun, 04 May 2008 12:55:00 PST

2nd Coming - the book

The gang over at Pale Horse Gallery put together a book featuring the art from the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse - 2nd Coming art show. The book is for sale and you can snag a copy of it HERE. Here's ...
Posted by robschwager on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:10:00 PST

Brandt Peters Slap-Happy

My box design for Brandt Peters' 16" Vintage Slap-Happy figure.They totally nailed the distressing I added to the box when it printed, especially the corners.Go out and snag one TODAY!...
Posted by robschwager on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:32:00 PST

New stickers....

New robschwager stickers....
Posted by robschwager on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:32:00 PST

Ol Skool Rodz 27

Mark from Gasoline Gallery in California dropped me a line and told me to snag the latest issue of Ol' Skool Rodz. He said it had coverage in it from the California Screamin' show at Gasoline Gallery ...
Posted by robschwager on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:22:00 PST

Kustom Graphics: Hot Rods, Burlesque and Rock n Roll

Here's the new book I'm privileged to be a part of. Many Kustom Kulture artists are now crossing over scenes, creating graphics for hot rods one day, burlesque events the next, and dreaming up flyers...
Posted by robschwager on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:39:00 PST

Art of Modern Rock Mini 1: A-Z

Swing by your local bookseller's shop or jump on Amazon and snag a copy of the Art of Modern Rock Mini 1: A-Z.I was privledged enough to have my art be part of the mammoth 2004 original Art of Modern ...
Posted by robschwager on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:58:00 PST

Latest fabrication -

Some quick pics of my latest piece...She's finally finished, and now she's prowling for a good home...Approx. 45" x 38"...
Posted by robschwager on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:00:00 PST