I’ve had a draft post sitting here for some time with Michael Slack’s name on it (ie. since starting Accordion Face), and what better day than Halloween to post about him and his work? He’s one of my favourite Illustrators today, not just for Buy Codeine Uk Online obvious content reasons, his style strikes a real chord with me – something in the sharpness of the Jim Flora-esque shapes, mixed with the textures?

Michael is Buy Codeine Uk Online flying the flag for all things weird and wonderful for Buy Codeine Uk Online kids (and adults alike). He has Illustrated a number of children’s books, games/puzzles, stickers (including Stinckers), as well as editorial, advertising, character and Buy Codeine Uk Online licensing work. If you’re looking for Buy Codeine Uk Online ideal Christmas presents for your munchkins, I highly recommend anything Mr Slack has Buy Codeine Uk Online out there on the shelves! My partner’s niece LOVES her copies of Flim Flam Fairies and Buy Codeine Uk Online Knuckleheads from a few Xmas’s back.

I wrote to Buy Codeine Uk Online Michael to ask a few questions about his work, and got some corkers of answers, particularly question #3! Thanks Michael!

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1. Could you please  share a bit of an overview of your process?

Most of my work is Buy Codeine Uk Online digital. I still work in traditional media for some of my “gallery” work. My technique varies depending on the project. I’m a Buy Codeine Uk Online texture fiend so I have a large library of scanned and Buy Codeine Uk Online photographic textures that I use. I guess I would call it Buy Codeine Uk Online a modified collage style. I will make selections put in textures then Buy Codeine Uk Online paint on them push and pull them until I like the Buy Codeine Uk Online result.  Basically lots of layers and masking.  Recently I’ve be Buy Codeine Uk Online leaving out the scanned textures entirely. I just finished a children’s book where Buy Codeine Uk Online I created the illustrations just digitally painting with custom brushes.

2. History/background/How you got started and how you got to where you’re at today (changes in style over time or linear?)

I started my freelance career just before the .com bubble burst.  I had Buy Codeine Uk Online been working in the gaming industry as a character designer for Buy Codeine Uk Online kids educational games. The company folded and I started getting freelance gigs doing various content for Buy Codeine Uk Online kids websites. I also l started getting print gigs with tech magazines and Buy Codeine Uk Online kids magazines, which eventually lead to books.. and here we are!  The funny thing is Buy Codeine Uk Online since the introduction of the touch screen on mobile devices and Buy Codeine Uk Online the release of the ipad, I’m getting contacted to Buy Codeine Uk Online do similar types of jobs which I was getting during the Buy Codeine Uk Online late 90’s boom of the internet.   As far as style is Buy Codeine Uk Online concerned, it is always changing. We are dynamic beings continually being inspired, effected, and Buy Codeine Uk Online influenced. We are talking about creativity here. If you keep doing the Buy Codeine Uk Online same thing over and over again you will eventually get bored and Buy Codeine Uk Online produce work you don’t feel good about.  How creative is that?

3. For me, growing up in the 80’s/90’s there were so many great *gross/weird* products for Buy Codeine Uk Online kids: Garbage Pail Kids, Doctor Dreadful, slime, board games, Odd Bodz and Buy Codeine Uk Online all kinds of monster-ish toys. And now I’m struggling to find much at all of this kind of thing in shops.
I was wondering if you Buy Codeine Uk Online could share your thoughts on the place in the market today for Buy Codeine Uk Online this kind of thing, such as Ick, and I guess your Buy Codeine Uk Online style?

I think on some level we have Buy Codeine Uk Online less cultural room for these types of products.  Throughout history macabre and Buy Codeine Uk Online grotesque imagery has always served a cultural need. Whether they are Buy Codeine Uk Online in the form of religious imagery, folktales, films, toys, or Buy Codeine Uk Online trading cards, these images are representations of the unknown and Buy Codeine Uk Online our deepest fears. They force us to playfully face these fears and Buy Codeine Uk Online traditionally serve to reaffirm life, and what is “good”.  We are Buy Codeine Uk Online living in an accelerated, fear based culture. What was once shocking is Buy Codeine Uk Online now passé. The imaginary, monsters have Buy Codeine Uk Online all lost their teeth, and have had their claws removed. They can Buy Codeine Uk Online no longer compete with the horrors we see in the news every day. We are Buy Codeine Uk Online told on a daily basis all the things we should fear.  This constant fear mongering reaffirms nothing, and Buy Codeine Uk Online in the end only creates more fear, panic, and worry. We suffer from Buy Codeine Uk Online fear fatigue. Parents now feel the need to shelter their kids.  So they don’t buy these type of products.

From a publishers’ standpoint there is a very limited appeal in today’s market for edgy products.  When there is so much competition for the consumer’s dollars, and Buy Codeine Uk Online especially now when consumers have less money to spend, publishers produce products that Buy Codeine Uk Online are “safe bets” and Buy Codeine Uk Online appeal to the broadest possible market .There was more room for Buy Codeine Uk Online these products in the past. The 80’s and 90’s were a Buy Codeine Uk Online boom time. Consumers had more money, there was less competition, publishers and Buy Codeine Uk Online toy company’s could throw more products in the mix and see what would stick.  Also, this Buy Codeine Uk Online type of product traditionally appeals to adolescent boys, which only make up a Buy Codeine Uk Online small portion of the childrens market. Today, video games are the Buy Codeine Uk Online realm of the adolescent boy.   I was in my pre teen years in the early 80’s.  The most macabre character in video games at that Buy Codeine Uk Online time were the pac-man ghosts. So video games weren’t satisfying the adolescent boy’s inherent fascination with gross stuff, so we collected garbage pail kids.

I got very lucky with Ick. I think the Buy Codeine Uk Online reason Chronicle published it is that they saw broader potential for Buy Codeine Uk Online the characters. I was really surprised they didn’t edit much at all. The game itself is Buy Codeine Uk Online tame. You try and build the grossest environment for your monsters to Buy Codeine Uk Online live in. It is about caring for your monsters. It is Buy Codeine Uk Online easy for kids to learn and the rounds are short enough to Buy Codeine Uk Online hold their interest. Another satisfying project I recently worked on was a Buy Codeine Uk Online book of monster stickers for Mudpuppy.  First of all I love stickers. Always have. Secondly, they basically gave me complete freedom to Buy Codeine Uk Online do what I wanted. The characters on the stickers really push the Buy Codeine Uk Online boundary for the 6+ age range. They are genuinely fun and weird.

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4. Animation – the ad’s that have been animated by Kirsten Lepore are so great – your style lends so well to animation – any plans for doing more animated work? (or further collaborations with Kirsten)?

Thanks! Kirsten Cheap Ambien With No Prescriptionis a fantastic artist. We share the same animation mentor, Laurence Arcadias. Laurence recommended Kirsten when Buy Codeine Uk Online I was looking for an animator. It takes me forever to Buy Codeine Uk Online animate something.  So I generally collaborate on animated projects with people who Buy Codeine Uk Online have much better animation skills. As I mentioned before I keep getting inquiries about creating content for Buy Codeine Uk Online mobile devices which usually involve animation. I created some very simple animations for Buy Codeine Uk Online my first digital children’s book “Scruffy Kitty Diazepam With Haloperidol” (NOTE: If you Buy Codeine Uk Online get Scruffy Kitty today from Itunes, there is a hidden layer TODAY ONLY for Buy Codeine Uk Online Halloween, changing and adding certain elements of Scruffy Kitty. Search the Buy Codeine Uk Online Itunes store for Scruffy Kitty).

5. On that note, I’m not sure if you attended ICON6 (?) but all reports from Buy Codeine Uk Online the conference were that the main topic of conversation was on the Buy Codeine Uk Online future of Illustration, with the likely addition of animation to Illustration in general. I thought Scruffy Kitty was a Buy Codeine Uk Online positive example of this, incorporating simple animations into the storybook format, but wondering if you Buy Codeine Uk Online would like to share your thoughts on this topic?

I do wonder though whether having everything on a Buy Codeine Uk Online page moving, or navigable, really adds value or just creates visual chaos.   It is a new format and medium. It is very important that Buy Codeine Uk Online we set the ground rules for this new medium and not have Buy Codeine Uk Online the “print” contract model, be applied here.  We ( illustrators) will have to be sure that we are compensated fairly  for the added art needed for Buy Codeine Uk Online animated content. It is up to us to be firm on this Buy Codeine Uk Online point, and not devalue what we do.

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