The Pop-Culture E-Zine
While endlessly scrolling through social media posts during the great void (the period between Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve), we came across these darn cool van Gogh inspired Star Wars ‘Starry Night’ artworks!
Happy New Year peeps!
image source: Star Wars always on Facebook
Working in close conjunction with FromSoftware, Inc., and Bandai Namco Entertainment Ltd., next-gen art gallery Cook and Becker has proudly launched a collection of 10 museum-grade-quality art prints from the game ELDEN RING.
The prints are official concept and key artworks used by FromSoftware, Inc. in the development of ELDEN RING.
The ELDEN RING collection consists of 10 prints, showing in-game characters such as Godfrey, and General Radahn and Leonard, or locations like Limgrave, the Debate Hall, the Lake Village Of The Albinaurics, and more.
The limited-edition prints are museum-grade quality, using only the best quality paper and archival inks to ensure longevity. All works are available for purchase unframed, or with a high-quality frame or finish.
Visit the full collection by clicking this link for information on pricing, finishing. For more information about Cook and Becker, please visit our website: https://www.cookandbecker.com
When it comes to villains, we reckon no one tops Darth Vader. He has been our fave antagonist from the first time we saw him wield his lightsaber and force choke his underlings.
The story of Darth Vader has evolved since we were kids in the late 70s and early 80s, but that doesn’t diminish our love for the character, on the contrary, the latest Obi-Wan Kenobi Disney+ series cemented Lord Vader as our favourite villain of all time.
With that said, here are some awesome Lord Vader artwork!
image source: Star Wars Always (Facebook) – Stern Pinball Inc.- Fine Art America – Pinterest – myhotposters – comicbookmovie – Artsper – disneyartonmain – Robert Voisenni
If you are a Stranger Things fan, then you’ll know the artwork from Brazilian designer/illustrator, Butcher Billy, is stunningly amazing!
The timeline of Stranger Things is perfectly suited for us nostalgia seekers with nods to everything retro that we loved from the 80s. Butcher Billy captures the Stranger Things aesthetic perfectly in his art creations, including this eye-popping Stranger Tales: The Second Season series, which includes Atari VCS/2600 cartridges and Stephen King paperback novels – Butcher Billy aptly states that “these are some of the stranger things of the 80’s.”
Check out the entire collection here and then head over to Butcher Billy’s RedBubble store.
The Atari Carts
Stephen King pulp paperbacks
source: Butcher Billy via behance.net
We knew there was a good use for emojis!
Our talented co-founder, Ms. Ausretrogamer has put emojis to good use by creating iconic artwork of pop culture geekiness, from Star Wars, Dr. Who, Donkey Kong, to The Simpsons, Bob’s Burgers, The Shining and Mortal Kombat to name just a few.
If you don’t want to miss Ms. Ausretrogamer’s geeky emoji artwork, follow her on Twitter.
Gotta thank our friends Weird and Retro for bringing this art to our attention!
You all got to check out Aly Jones’ 90s Nostalgia Art Series artwork, the jolt of old school popular culture stuff will leave you feeling warm and fuzzy inside! Aly’s artwork will definitely make you miss the 90s!
Check out the entire Aly Jones 90s Nostalgia Art Series on Facebook and also hit Aly’s site for more of her awesome art!
image source: Aly Jones’ 90s Nostalgia Series via Facebook
Hold onto your cyberpunk helmets peeps and make some space on your games room wall! Read-Only Memory is proud to present a high quality print featuring a new illustration by original Bitmap Brothers artist and co-designer of Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe, Dan Malone.
Screen printed in black onto a luxurious grey heavyweight stock, the edition also features the distinctive Bitmap Brothers logo, micro-etched into holographic foil. Each print is signed by the artist and will be shipped in a durable archival tube. The print is available to pre-order now exclusively from the Read-Only Memory website.
The illustration has been created especially for Read-Only Memory’s forthcoming title, The Bitmap Brothers: Universe, a documentary history of the visionary UK developer.
Print specifications:
source: Read-Only Memory
Let’s get this straight, I love video games being mashed into real life locations. I was super impressed with Aled Lewis Studio’s video gaming artwork, and now we have Lee Vidal coming to the party with his artistic effort.
Lee has done a fabulous job at placing iconic video games in very apt real life locations. If you don’t believe us, just take a peek below. If you would like to see more of Lee’s artistic works, head on over to his deviantArt page.
Spooky Yoshi’s Island
Barrel roll
Exciting motocross!
Scenic route
Brrrrrrrrrrr, ice climbing
Go Mario!
Advancing! Tank attack!
Hunting castles
Kicking ten shades out of Ken!
image source: retronoob
As previous posts would attest, we are huge fans of Adam Rufino’s artistic work. Adam’s EPIC SNES series took our fancy this time around. The series is a tribute to Nintendo’s 16-bit heritage and their massive gaming franchises. It is hard to pick a winner from all of these awesome pieces of art.
source: AdamWorks
This has to be the best way to start the week – seeing an awesome collection of posters of legendary consoles and their parts, from 8-bit giants to 128-bit powerhouses! You can thank the artistic genius of Adam Rufino for these lovely creations.
You can browse Adam’s creations on Society6. If you like what you see, show your support for the artist and procure yourself a lovely bit of art to hang proudly on your gaming wall.
Nintendo’s 8-bit killer console
Sega’s 16-bit wonder
The North American Super NES Slab
The PAL SNES
Alternative NES
Sega’s proper 32-bit entry
Sega’s Dream Machine
source: MeleeNinja (Society6)