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Matt Furie’s Boys Club 4

Continuing our Matt Furie Monday marathon, join me at the coffee table to take a look at Furie’s latest hilarious issue of Boys Club. Lovable weirdos Andy, Brett, Landwolf and Pepe are back, accompanied this time by a beanie-wearing pizza delivery creature named Bird-Dog and Whitey, the sinister pimple. Bird-Dog lays out the history of marijuana while Landwolf twirls his boner in front of a strobe light. Plus a great recipe for Slim Jims and Easy Cheese!

Pictures of Boys Club 4 below, along with a few pictures of the rad print I picked up from Furie at APE last month, created by Desert Island– the amazing NYC comic shop behind Smoke Signal.

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Corn on the Macabre III @ Show Cave

Unless you’re having a seizure right now, you’re looking at a GIF of a sculpture by Matt Furie. Furie’s first sculpture since art school was heralded by a barrage of flashing lights at Show Cave’s Corn on the Macabre III. The Halloween show also featured the talents of fellow Future Colors of America collaborators Aiyana Udesen and Albert Reyes, spooky new works by Leslie Winchester and Ariana Papademetropoulos, and a projector plugged into Furie’s Return of the Quack. Pictures below!

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Bouquet of Death @ DOA Gallery

Future Colors of America is a terrific artistic triad comprised of troublemaking superfriends Matt Furie (Boys Club and Return of the Quack), Aiyana Udesen (an ace at drawing Whorf, Britney Spears, and penguins), and Albert Reyes (whose haunted maze I helped bring to Mastodon Mesa last spring). It’s always a pleasure to see these three artists working together. Their distinct visual sensibilities and senses of humor weave effortlessly in their collaborations and crossovers. They take delight in both both intensifying and obscuring the symbols, fixations and refrains of each others’ canons.

Though the group has been collaborating for years, Future Colors of America made their eponymous debut when Matt and Aiyana brought Albert up to San Francisco last year for a show at GRSF. So Albert returned the favor by inviting them to show in his east L.A. neighborhood, El Sereno, on the eve of Halloween. Bouquet of Death, which also includes work from Monique “MAC” Contreras, Leslie Winchester and Aaron Martinez, marked the debut of the brand new DOA (Dose of Art) Gallery.

Like the rock stars they are, Future Colors of America opened another show in L.A. on the same night– Corn on the Macabre III at Show Cave. Pictures from that opening will be up shortly!

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