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Art Featured Gallery Art in the Flesh: Dr Sketchy’s L.A.

January 5, 2012 - 12:09 pm

A few years back, a Brooklyn artist who goes by the moniker Molly Crabapple, decided art school was not cool and dropped out. And lucky for us she did. Otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this article and dammit I wouldn’t have had the chance to shoot Samion, le nude muse for this installment of the Los Angeles chapter’s Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School. Fittingly, this kickoff for a new year of the bi-monthly pop-up figure-drawing cabaret for artists and art lovers was held at the Titmouse Inc. animation compound in Hollywood, home to all things awesome and strange.

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Event Featured Gallery Therapy With a Baseball Bat

by Nicole Pajer and Sidney Bensimon

November 25, 2010 - 3:15 pm

Titmouse invited me to their annual Smashing Party and there was no way that I was going to turn down that invitation. I’ll admit, I’ve heard stories of past bashes, so I thought I knew what I was in for. When I walked through the entrance gate and was cleared by security, however, I realized that this might turn out to be a bit more extreme of an evening than I was prepared for. At the door, I was handed a waiver to sign, given an official SMASH t-shirt to add to the souvenir collection, and provided with a paper face mask to block “all the dust and debris.”

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Art/Design Titmouse Volume 1

by Shop Keeper and Sidney Bensimon

August 23, 2010 - 12:48 pm

Titmouse Inc., The animation studio behind the [adult swim] hit series “Metalocalypse,” T-Pain’s “Freaknik: The Musical,” “Black Panther” and a slew of other cartoons, has assembled a team of weirdo artist types to create a 100-page anthology of art, comics, and interviews for a truly unique and innovative brand of media call a “book.”

The quarterly hardcover publication printed on fancy paper and in full color features comic strips, paintings, and interviews from some of the art world’s most interesting individuals. “Metalocalypse” and “Venture Brothers” director Jon Schnepp; cartoonist and painter Dave Cooper; “Metalocalpyse” co-creator Tommy Blacha; comic book artist Dave Johnson; Emmy Award winning character designer Andy Suriano, and a homeless dude from Hollywood are just a few of the 17 artists featured in this first issue. Drawing inspiration from past publications such as Mad Magazine and Heavy Metal, Titmouse Vol. 1 is like a Ralph Bakshi film on paper. Fancy paper.

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