The Hyaena Gallery in Burbank California was the very first place America’s Bad Kids visited. We’re going back there and this time we are going to meet some of the awesome artists who supply the art for the gallery that the bad kids like. Here are some of the guys we are going to be talking to.
DW Frydendall is a horror comic artist. You already saw him in my cottonmouth.tv Halloween special. He and I have a BBQ. It is awesome.
The Big Tasty is the awesomest artist ever. He did a portrait of johnny when he was offering his $21.65 doodles.
Clint Carney is an LA musician and artist. He is a big horror fan and pretty awesome also.
Chuck Hodi is is an LA based artist who paints portraits of all kinds of bad kids. Johnny owns two prints of his Anton Levey paintings.
We’ll be talking to more artists. We also will be discussing a few wenises claiming that the Gallery is peddling child pornography. Johnny, Steve Niles and DW Frydenall are going to call some bitches out.
Hey everyone! There is going to be an America’s Bad Kids Cottonmouth.tv Halloween Special! It will be appearing on Cottonmouth.tv. Cottonmouth is a short story by Steve Bissette that appeared in an a comic book horror anthology series called Gore Shriek. Independent director Christopher P. Garetano, is going to be bringing us a live action adaptation of that story you can watch on Cottonmouth.tv this Halloween Eve at Midnight! The WITCHING HOUR! I worked on the film and from what I have seen so far, it is absolutely awesome. Check out the trailer for Cottonmouth right here.
The America’s Bad Kids Cottonmouth.tv Halloween Special is an interview with 30 Days of Night Creator Steve Niles and horror artist DW Frydendall. The three of us hung out at the Hyeana Gallery in Burbank, California to rap about our favorite horror comic books.
During the discussion Steve Bissette came up. To make this episode I went digging though my comic collection because I wanted to include as much comic art as possible. During the search I came across all my Swamp Thing comics. I had to include Swamp Thing because that is one of characters Bissette is famous for drawing in the 1980’s. At the time Watchman creator Alan Moore was writing Swamp Thing and really took old Swampy in some really cool directions. This was the first time we got to see Swamp Thing as a force of nature. He is not a human who’s body the swamp got stuck to, rather his consciousness was absorbed into swamp. He represented the Green or plant life on earth. We even saw the first appearance of John Constantine during this run. Steve Bissette and John Totleben were the two main artists during this time. This is my favorite of their covers. I love the way the stripes bleed out at the bottom.
In conclusion, Swamp Thing Rules! And don’t forget to check out Cottonmouth.tv this Halloween Eve!
Horror writer and 30 days of night creator Steve Niles and horror artist DW Frydendall join Johnny Torrani on the Americas Bad Kids Halloween Special for CottonMouth.tv.Cottonmouth will premiere there Halloween Eve at 12am, so be sure to check it out.
Steve Niles is a profile horror comic writer.He is currently writing, Batman after midnight, Criminal Macabe: Cellblock 666, Simon Dark, City of Dust and Epilogue.
DW Frydendall is a horror artist in the greater Los Angeles area.He currently has a show at Hayena Gallery in Burbank CA, he has done works for comics, album covers, clothing and private commissions.
Be sure to check out this installment of Americas Bad Kids for a great chance to see Steve Niles talk about his upcoming collaboration with his good friend Eric Powell, his influences and playing scrabble with Bernie Wrightson.