The Skate Comics Depository

You’re Bart Simpson, you’re naked and you’re skateboarding in this simple Flash game which is was a promotion for The Simpsons Movie

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Jim Phillips screaming hand illustration was originally done for Speed Wheels Santa Cruz. I think the original ads claimed that Speed Wheels scream. You can get it on t-shirts, hoodies and even on skateboards. It is not an iconic skateboarding image (look up the word iconic) but it is may be the best known image [...]

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Andy Jenkins’ Chip spot illustrations appeared in The Skateboard Mag. He did the drawings, scanned and digitally colored them. The black and white originals can be seen and purchased at the Bend Press website. Buy a bunch of copies of my books so I can afford one.

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Some boards Jim Phillips did for Pocket Pistols. The McWho (a collaboration with V. Courtlandt Johnson of Bones Brigade art fame), The Porker and The EyePod. There are other Phillips designs on the site. Also be sure to check out Phillips website and The Surf and Skate Art of Jim Phillips a must have for [...]

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This is year old news how did I completely miss this one? Volcom sponsored a comic book project. Links after the jump. I originally found this t-shirt image on a Japanese site but didn’t know what it was about. After a little research…

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Another of my cultural heroes is the late Rick Griffin. Better known for surf comics and rock poster art, he did this skateboard dude for a 45 single sleeve in 1977, the year I graduated from high-school. Gordon McClelland’s fine monograph of Rick Griffin is one of my prized possessions.

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I know there are some other skateboard themed Peanuts strips. Seems like there was an arc that ended up with someone up in a tree. Linus? Snoopy? Surely not CB? Charles Schulz is defintitely one of my cultural heroes. There are some great jokes in Peanuts and he covered a huge range of human experience. [...]

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Wow! Check out Radman’s Art. How did I miss this? I want people to journey with me, to let me be their art instead of envey. To them I say I am the reason artist to day are not discovered I am the missing link. Without my recognition, there is no recognition. The quality of [...]

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