The Black Parade by James Jean

James Jean is selling prints of the gatefold cover he created for My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade.Here's the line art:



Via.

*Buy Kindling: 12 Removable Prints by James Jean at Amazon.

Buy a James Jean t-shirt and support the arts

Bat t-shirt by James Jean. It along with several other designs are on sale here, with proceeds going toward an art center in Los Angeles.

*Buy James Jean books and prints at Amazon.

James Jean's Rift (link roundup)

Video look at James Jean's Rift, which is $8 at Amazon.


And a few more links:

1. Los Angeles doesn't have the money to hire people to work at its brand new $74-million jail. Via.

2. Wicked Witch and buff Flying Monkey by Joe Vriens for Hey Oscar Wilde.

3. Catbus cake.

*Previously: Flying Monkey taxidermy.

*Buy Totoro toys at eBay.

Imogen Heap concert poster by James Jean

Imogen Heap concert poster by James Jean.

*Previously: James Jean poster for The Royal Albert Hall.

*Buy James Jean books and prints at Amazon.

New art by James Jean

Peacock and birdcage by James Jean. If I understood it right, it'll go on sale at the Greek in Los Angeles sometime in the near future.

*Previously: James Jean poster for The Royal Albert Hall.

*Buy James Jean books and prints at Amazon.

James Jean poster for The Royal Albert Hall

James Jean's poster for a performance of Ennio Morricone's music at The Royal Albert Hall is available as a limited edition print. (The price is a mystery, and you have to send an email to get on the purchasing list.) Via.

*Previously: Dive by James Jean.

*Buy James Jean books and prints at Amazon.

New James Jean print (link roundup)

"Dive" by James Jean on sale here for $2,000 to $4,000 depending on which version you get.

And a few more links:

1. Homemade Big Daddy Doll. (Not quite as exciting now that Neca massproduced it, but still cool.)

2. Photographic evidence for why you should not buy mail-order flowers.

3. "A woman was convicted Tuesday in the April 2005 killing of a Westminster fortuneteller and her daughter four years ago that prosecutors said was due to a spell that didn't work."

*Previously: James Jean mug and saucer.

*Buy James Jean books and prints at Amazon.

Toronto Comics Art Festival posters (link roundup)

Gallery of Toronto Comics Art Festival posters through the years (including one by James Jean). Via.

And a few more links:

1. From Tucker Stone's weekly tv reviews:

The best part of the British version of Law & Order is the opening line, because the voice-over guy says "crown prosecutor" instead of "district attorney", and that confuses the American brain into thinking that one has fallen into a parallel universe . . . . And then the credits roll, and it gets worse, because the crown prosecutor is shown wearing those robes and those wigs that British people make their lawyers wear out of some thousand year old grudge, and it's just--nobody can watch that. Seriously, nobody can watch that. It's horrible. So turn it off, and wait for the day that Dick Wolf gets sociopathic enough to produce a Law & Order spin off set in some former Eastern Bloc country.

2. A handy resource for The Golden Rule in most of the world's major religions.

3. Google will apparently start directly selling a new Android phone called "Nexus One." Which makes this a good time to repost this: San Francisco mayoral candidates (including Gavin Newsom) being subjected to the Voight-Kampff Test.

*Previously: Blade Runner fan poster.

*Buy Blade Runner posters at eBay.

James Jean and Tara McPherson cups and saucers

Yesterday it was designer lamps, today it's designer cups and saucers. Above are the designs by James Jean and Tara McPherson. The inside of Jean's features a labyrinth. It's too bad that they're so expensive.

*Previously: Tara McPherson's Gamma Mutant Space Friends.

*Buy James Jean collections at Amazon.

James Jean Mints

Coming "soon" to Giant Robot, mints in packages designed by James Jean. James also recently designed skateboards for Giant Robot.

*Previously: Logo for the Tin Caps baseball team.

*Buy Fossil tins at eBay.

Papercraft Bottle Rocket (link roundup)

"Splodey the Bottle Rocket" paper toy by Matt Hawkins. Download it here.

And a few more links:

1. Preview image of Gap t-shirts by James Jean.

2. Plush Martin Scorsese.

3. Spock/Enterprise Transformer.

4. A vampire celebrates the Nazis' defeat.

*Previously: Rocket Robin Hood.

*Buy Star Trek posters at eBay.

Preorder James Jean's Process Recess 3

James Jean announced that his newest art collection, Process Recess 3, is now available for preorder. Process Recess 2 is one of my alltime favorite purchases, but unlike that book, which consisted of prints suitable for removal and framing (and I have the space age version of Little Red Riding Hood hanging in my office), this one seems to be a more straightforward (and longer) collection of sketches. You can preorder the limited edition for $200 here, and preorder the mundane version for 33% off at Amazon.

Process Recess 2 is listed as temporarily out of stock, but you can order it for $20 at Amazon.

*Previously: Thumbs down for James Jean's postcard collection.

*Buy "Fables Covers: The Art of James Jean Vol. 1" at Amazon.

Belvedere File Manager Logo (link roundup)

Logo for something called the Belvedere automated file manager (I have no idea what it is, but it could presumably help you work some dark alchemy with your computer).

And a few more links:

1. Mark Wilson provides a thorough review of the Nintendo DSi (in short, you don't need it). Relatedly, if you live in Los Angeles, there's going to be a big deal DSi event complete with giveaways at City Walk starting at 9pm tomorrow.

2. James Jean interviewed. Favorite q&a:

Have you always been able to draw or was it a skill you learned in college?

I have always drawn for pleasure. College only made me painfully self-aware and "serious."

3. The NBA and Chinese brewing giant Tsingtao are teaming up for a cheerleading-themed reality show starting soon on Chinese TV. Winners will get to train with American cheerleaders.

4. Baby Skeletor.

*Previously: Team mascot chases down cheerleader and eats her.

*Buy Skeletor toys at eBay.

Christmas images from James Jean and Bioware (and more)

Toymaker by James Jean. High res here.



Christmas tree by James White.



Two Bioware desktop wallpapers.



Gingerbread foreclosure.




Peepshow.



Cool Surface.

*Previously: Custom Toyota Matrix by James White.

*Buy the "StarCraft Widescreen DVD Movie" at Amazon.

Download a high resolution poster by James Jean

James Jean has made available for download a hi-resolution image (3083x3766!) of the poster he created for his show at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York, starting January 10. He expressly encourages fans to print out a copy.


Relatedly, here's some headshots of Fables characters by Evan Shaner:


Fables Mugshots by *DocShaner on deviantART


*Previously: Jean's Jewish wedding contract.

*Buy Jean's post card book for $10 at Amazon.

XOXO 30 Postcards by James Jean

This handsome book of postcards by James Jean is on sale for $10. You can buy it directly from Jean here here and get it personalized (but the price will double due to shipping), or you can buy it for $10 and not pay shipping (if you spend a total of $25) at Amazon.

Also available for preorder, Fables Covers: The Art of James Jean Vol. 1 is 34% off at Amazon.

If you want either, better act fast, the last book of his that I mentioned sold out very fast and is being resold on Amazon at ten times the original price. (I have a print from that book hanging in my office.)

*Previously: Jewish wedding contract illustrated by James Jean.

Tentacled penis monsters by James Jean

Just one element of some arresting posters Jean created for AIDES, a European HIV/AIDS NGO. I try to keep this blog PG-13, so I'm just going to recommend you visit his site. Once there, click on the thumbnails for high-res images.

(If you're not afraid of having nightmares about tentacled penis monsters.)

James Jean has illustrated a Jewish wedding contract

It's called a ketubah and you can see a larger version here.

*Preorder Fables Covers: The Art of James Jean Vol. 1 at Amazon.