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BY ALE X NOT MAN
MOVIES AND MONSTERS!
Blunt Graffix gives film posters a devilish spin
A
fter touring the West Coast with
their Dead Rockstars exhibition,
Blunt Graffix is back with another
blockbuster show in Eugene, Blunt
Fink! which gives iconic movies
like Easy Rider, Big Trouble in
Little China and Lolita a deliciously ghoulish
spin. The “Fink!” part is derived from Rat
Fink, the hot-rod icon created by cartoonist
and custom car designer Ed “Big Daddy”
Roth. With this inspiration, Blunt Graffix
founder and artist Matt Dye has curated a
show that feels like the Garbage Pail Kids and
Howard Terpning dropped acid and then
watched some dusty VHS tapes.
A stop on First Friday ArtWalk, the show will
feature more than 35 graphic artists and illustra-
tors from around the country, several with envi-
able portfolios. Alan Forbes, for one, has created
a graphic empire by collaborating with musi-
cians, producing posters and album art for bands
like The Black Crowes, Rage Against the
Machine and Dinosaur Jr. Dye says he is able to
attract so many artists because of the twelve years he spent producing concert posters and art prints.
The show’s comical coup d’état, however, is an entry (pictured right) by the Pennsylvania-based
duo T-bone & Aljax. Their inspiration? The 1987 holiday classic Planes, Trains and Automobiles. John
Candy has been reimagined as a porcine devil at the steering wheel of the infamous Chrysler LeBaron
Town and Country, while a bug-eyed Steve Martin is stuffed next to him with luggage flying out the
back. Prints will be on sale for $25 to $75. ■
Blunt Fink! runs 6 pm until close Friday, Dec. 7, and noon to 6 pm Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 8-9, at Blunt Graffi x Studio, 1040 Tynn St.,
No. 3.
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