Event Appreciation Day

Last Saturday, two of Baby Tattooville 2007's Featured Artists and at least one of Baby Tattooville 2008's Featured Artists participated in STRANGEco's Vivisect Playset launch party at Gallery 1988 LA. Coverage with extensive photos can be found at Vinyl Pulse. It was a great evening, and not even the driving rain could keep fans away.

Looking toward the future, Baby Tattoo and a number of the company's artist friends will be exhibiting at the following events.

February 22-24 - WonderCon - San Francisco, California

March 14-16 - Wizard World - Los Angeles, California

April 18-20 - New York Comic Con - New York, New York

Baby Tattoo is planning to participate in a number of other spring happenings. Watch this blog for event info every Tuesday.

On My Mind

The art of Travis Louie is on my mind today. I can't really share why I'm thinking about his paintings, but I can share links to his web site and his blog.

-Bob Self

Shameless Plug Sunday #4

Ragnar's fab little kids' book Got Your Nose is a steal. It's a fun story with magnificent art, and the cover price is only 9 dollars. Cory Doctorow wrote at Boing Boing, "This is the kind of book that's naughty enough to get a million laughs... and handsome enough to want to cut up and frame."

Yes It's Cool

It's no secret that Baby Tattoo founder Bob Self is a big fan of Ain't It Cool News, so you can imagine his glee upon discovering that Harry Knowles just posted a glowing review of Christy Kane's work on aintitcool.com. We already think Christy's work is great (which is why we published Tales of the Sisters Kane), but don't take our word for it. Click over to Harry's site and read what he has to say.

Click here to go to the Aint It Cool Article.

Fantastic

The deadline for submissions to Spectrum 15 is today. As usual, Baby Tattoo is sending in some great work by a few of our artist associates. Baby Tattoo has an impressive record for having art voted into the Annual, and hopefully this year's submissions will fare well. If you are not familiar with Spectrum, click on the name to go to the web site. For "Fantastic Art" fans, Spectrum is an unbeatable collectible. For "Fantastic Art" creators, Spectrum is an unparalleled marketing tool. For anyone who is both a fan and a creator, Spectrum is a dream come true. The Call For Entries image reproduced above is by the mad man Marc Gabbana.