I'll be at the San Diego Comic Con again this year, so if you're attending, please stop by my table in Artists Alley for your free hug or handshake (one per customer).
This just in! Go to www.popartskateboards.com to see dozens and dozens of M.O'C deck designs. I'll be adding more all the time, so keep on checkin' back!
I'm adding all the great tattoos based on my flash in the pic section. Again, just to clarify... I have no idea how to tattoo, I just draw the flash. These are all done by much more capable folks than myself! It'll take me awhile to get 'em all up, get the proper credits, etc, but in the meantime, if you don't see yours there, please email a high res jpeg to "[email protected]". I'd love to post it for everyone to see! Thanks!
Glitter Graphics are HOT! Top friend and the world's #1 designer of glitter graphics Colleen Truscott Fry has been on fire working her magic on just about everything I've drawn! You can see 'em all @ mitchoconnell.com and a smaller selection in the pic section here, but now she's even taken on designing whole backgrounds for your own Myspace page! Go to http://www.glitter-graphics.com/myspacelayouts.php?ownerID=8 5249 and pick one out. What makes Colleen even more of a treasure? They're free!
This just in! Last Gasp Publishing has come out with a full color 264 page book collecting the best of my tattoo designs! It's only $14.95, so for goodness sake, click the link below and get a copy!
The beautifully talented little lady, the 'lil offspring, (also beautiful and talented) Leo and Kieran, and in no particular order, Big-eyed Keane paintings, kitsch, velvet paintings, flea markets, old school tattoos, demolition derby, roller derby, pinewood derby, self taught artists, funny cars, UFO/ bigfoot/ ghost sightings, black-light, glow in the dark, Russ Berrie figures, peace, macaroni craft projects, vintage magazines (the kind men like), Peanuts, Ernie Bushmiller, pink elephants, 3 card monte, haunted houses, the idea of bowling, nudists, miniature golf, muscle cars, lucha libre, cozies, sideshows, state fairs, shrunken heads, tiki bars, any bar, Big Daddy Roth, Ivan Albright, beehives, jello molds, TV healing preachers, drumming (not talented, but enjoy making noise. Just ask my neighbors!), pin-ups, long walks, listening, making sweet love to my lady, sunsets, holding hands, good friends, good times!
Also, catch the Mrs. and son Leo as they do the Coke and Mentos experiment on this YouTube video put together by pal Brian Johnson- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE1PF1D6th8
Anyone with a keen eye for art who wants to hire me to illustrate a logo, tattoo, advertisement, CD cover, skateboard, etc. I'd prefer someone who doesn't use the phrase, "We don't have much of a budget."
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Ilsabe O'Connell (www.ilsabeoconnell.com), Beatles, Cramps, Ramones, Raymen, Cheap Trick, Link Wray, Fountains of Wayne, Less Than Jake, The Supersuckers, Queen, Jet, Alice Cooper, Devo, White Stripes, oldies and goodies plus many off the happening tunes the young folk are listening to nowadays.
Rundown movie palaces, Drive-ins, Midnight Movies. Any black and white "noir," B movies, any Clint Eastwood, Orsen Wells, Thin Man,Bogart, Cronenberg, Walter Matthau, Alfred Hitchcock, William Castle, Abbott & Costello, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Jerry Lewis, Don Knotts or Jack Lemmon movie. Invasion of the Bee Girls, Coma, Parallax View, Skidoo, The Conversation, The Wizard of Speed and Time, 2001, Kill Bill, Kingdom of the Spiders, The Bicycle Thief, Phantasm, American Movie, The Manster, War of the Gargantuas, Hypnotic Eye, High School Confidential, Dumbo, Time after Time, Yellow Submarine, First Men in the Moon, Gun Crazy, Billy Jack, Broadway Danny Rose, Destroy all Monsters, Bambi, To Kill a Mockingbird, 7th Voyage of Sinbad, House on Bare Mountain, Kiss Me Quick, The House That Screamed, The 400 Blows, Plan 9 From Outer Space, The Creeping Terror, Who the Hell is Reading This List Anyway?, Corpse Grinders, Stardust Memories, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Attack of the Mushroom People, Night/ Dawn of the Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, Glen or Glenda, Jaws, etc.
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Got two of 'em! Brady Bunch Variety Hour, Pink Lady and Jeff, Mrs. America Contest, The Office, Amazing Race, "Special Guest Stars", Larry Storch, Charlie Callas, TV Horror Hosts, The Ghoul, Sir Graves Ghastly and Svengoolie, 6 Feet Under, Deadwood, Davy and Goliath, Night Gallery, The PTL Club, Lovejoy, Putting a coat hanger in one antennae and a wadded up aluminum ball on the other for reception, the TV glow that fills up a dark room, The station sign off, "as we end our broadcast day" to the tune of the Star Spangled Banner.
"Kooks" by Donna Kossy, "Throat Sprokets" by Tim Lucas, "Golden Turkey Awards" by the Medved Bros., "How to Pick Up Girls", "Home Guide to Treating Embarrassing Red Rashes So No One Will Ever Know" by Dr. Frank, "Forgiven" by Shepard (great book on Jim & Tammy Baker), "Carnival" by Arthur Lewis, "An Original Dead End Kid Presents" by Leo Gorcey, "Criswell Perdicts" by Criswell, "The Ghoul S/Crapbook" by Sweed and Olzewski, "Case Closed" by Posner, "Flim Flam" by Randi, "Step Right Up Folks" by Griffin, "Synchronized Swimming is For Me" by Lerner, "Geek Love" by Dunn, all Jimmy Olsen comics, any books by Donald Westlake, Thomas Berger, Stuart Kaminsky's Toby Peters mysteries, and of course, my personal favorites, "Good Taste Gone Bad: The "Art" of Mitch O'Connell" and "Pwease Wuv Me: More "Art" by Mitch O'Connell"
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