MacSkinz Artist Series
MacSkinz has worked with many great artists over the years and we thank them for their contributions. Below is a snippet of information about each of them along with a link to their website. Check them out. You won't be dissappointed.

Andrew Bawidamann
Andrew has a nostalgia fetish and translates it into eye-catching works of art. Using traditional and non-traditional methods, he creates graphically oriented pin-ups. His art reflects a time when Rosie was riveting, smoking wasn't bad for you, and the Rat Pack wasn't the vermin in the alley.

Andrew Bawidamann Website

Neck.CNSkillz
A graffiti artist and graphic designer from Germany, Neck specializes in tight, simple and minimalistic 3d-styles. He is part of the CNSKILLZ crew.

Neck.CNSkillz Website

Plankton Art
The origins of Plankton Art Co. at this time are unclear, but what is certain is that the two individuals reputed to head this organization have never been seen. Their reasons for such secrecy are unclear, and those individuals who serve closest to them are so fanatical in their slavish devotion that there is little hope in revealing their true identities. Wild rumors alluding to the couple actually being sentient, symbiotic colonies of marine microorganisms, while highly unlikely, can neither be confirmed nor denied at this time.

Plankton Art Website

Jeff Soto
Jeff Soto is a Southern California based artist/illustator. Much of his current work deals with man's implementation and exploration of nature, though he continues to explore new content. For his peices, he often combines aspects of painting, drawing, collage, graffiti and installation. Some of his inspirations are science fiction, cacti, gang graffiti, robots, '70s pornography, public art and nature. Jeff has shown in several galleries throughout the U.S. and Europe.

Jeff Soto Website

Frank Kozik
Frank Kozik has been credited with revitalizing poster art with his unique perspective and designs. He has also produced artwork for countless record covers and concert posters and is highly sought after by collectors all over the world. His work can be very controversial and at times downright warm and fuzzy.

Frank Kozik Website

Brian Ewing
Brian was recently commissioned to design 6 different posters for the WARPED TOUR'S 10th ANNIVERSARY. His fulltime gig is illustrating and designing posters for loud rock bands and clubs across the Midwest. He also works freelance for various independent publishers, and has illustrated stories for Star Wars and Tales From the Crypt, to name a few.

Brian Ewing Website

Dave Johnson
The Potentate of the 33rd Degree. Dave Johnson is widely known for his work in the comics and gaming industry.

Dave Johnson Website

Miles Thompson
Miles experience includes many Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation shorts like "Dogpile", "Brian's Brain", "Hut Sluts", "Empty Roll" and more. Other animation work includes Dexters Laboratory, Johnny Bravo and Mucha Luca to name a few. Miles fine art has also appeared in numerous galleries and exhibitions.

Miles Thompson Website

Marc Gabbana
Marc Gabbana is an illustrator and concept artist who works in the advertising, publishing and motion picture industry. He was recently a Star Wars concept artist for both the Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. Other film credits include Spawn, Jimmy Neutron - Boy Genius, 8 Mile, Hellboy and IMAX's all CG 3D movie "Cyberworld". He also worked as illustrator and concept designer on the Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolutions, The Polar Express, Monsterhouse and the upcoming motion picture "War of the Worlds".

Marc Gabbana Website

Joe Chiodo
A review in Spectrum #5 of his first retrospective book "Art of Chiodo" published in 1997 , Beautifully displayed the work of an under appreciated talent: those familiar with Chiodo's cute pin up styling were surprised at the breadth and depth of his range. Chiodo has since had 2 more books devoted to his work "Works of Art, Joe Chiodo" published in 2002 and "Darkworks" published in 2004. A career spanning over 20 years, he has spent most of it in the comic book industry doing several graphic novels and numerous covers for every major comic book company.

Joe Chiodo Website

Coop
The polished lowbrow art of Coop has great appeal, whether you like hot rods, monsters, devils or devilish femmes. His posters for concerts and events are seen everywhere, breaking the surface of the underground.

Coop PodSkinz

Coop Website

Glenn Barr
Glenn Barr is based in Detroit. is a graduate of the College for Creative Studies. has been exhibiting in galleries for the past 13 years. original background artist for The Ren & Stimpy Show head background stylist for Woody Woodpecker & The Baby Huey Show also works in toy design, sculpture and set design. books: LOWLIFE PARADISE : THE WORKS OF GLENN BARR ( Last Gasp ), THE LOWLIFE COMPANION : SELECTED DRAWINGS ( Last Gasp ), HEEP 1, 2 & 3 ( self published ) & lots of comic work.

Glenn Barr Website

Marco Almera
Marco Almera began his artistic career in the Southern California Surf/Skate/Punk/Rock culture of the early 80's. As a teenager, Almera was inspired by the do-it-yourself style of this culture, and created his own t-shirts and stylized graphics. His underground art style has always gravitated to this world of surfing, music, cars, pinup girls and California culture, and he remains a dedicated representative to this way of life.

Marco Almera Website

Jon Foster
Jon Foster's art is dark, beautiful, and visually overpowering. From his Dark Horse Comics' Star Wars covers to his game industry work on Dungeons & Dragons Third Edition and Alternity, Foster always knows how to move the soul of the viewer.

Jon Foster Website

Ragnar
Illustrator Brandon Ragner Johnson grew up under the sweltering sun and bright lights of Las Vegas. From there it was stints in Japan, Taiwan, Mexico, and Hollywood before settling in Southern California with his wife and three children. There he writes and illustrates picture books, paints, designs toys, develops animated television shows and otherwise occupies himself.

Ragnar Website

Gary Baseman
Baseman best describes his work where the line between genius and stupidity has been smudged beyond recognition. He is creator of the animated television series "Teacher's Pet and his artwork can be seen in major publications such as The New Yorker, Time, The New YorkTimes, Rolling Stone, and Blab.

Gary Baseman Website

Bill Wray
Bill has worked on the Ren & Stimpy cartoon and his own Big Blown Baby comic. You can also see his work in Hellboy Jr., almost any recent issue of MAD magazine, and Samurai Jack's painted backgrounds.

Bill Wray Website

Calef Brown
Calef Brown is the author and illustrator of the best-selling POLKABATS AND OCTOPUS SLACKS. His wacky rhymes about funky snowmen, lonely surfers, and skeleton flowers (among others) have received rave reviews.

Calef Brown Website

Freddi Cerasoli
Painter and graphic artist Freddi Cerasoli was born in London, but now calls LA home, claiming that "the excitement and chaos" of DJ culture and various street art forms, including flyer imagery, CD and vinyl covers and computer graphics, are a major inspiration in the quest to create a "Pop Art for the new millennium.

Freddi Cerasoli Website

Nancy Stahl
Nancy Stahl is an accomplished artist and illustrator whose work has been used as large as billboards and as small as stamps for the U.S. Postal Service. Her list of clients is something to be seen.

Nancy Stahl Website

Grant Wiggins
Grant Wiggin's paintings are an ongoing interrogation of the ubiquity of branding, packaging, and sloganeering in contemporary culture. He combines quasi-Dadaist illogical language with decontextualized consumerist imagery to ask critical questions about the impact of the mass-marketplace on our humanity.

Grant Wiggins Website

Thomas Han
Thomas Han is a fun loving young artist living in Los Angeles known for his off the wall character driven, acrylic/silk screen paintings. From magic pills, to cute absurd creatures that boogy, flying cigarettes, to addicted crab'bots, Thomas wraps the message of want, desire, addiction, and the curious eye for color, pop, and the exaggerated, into well perfected imperfection's of candy coated goodness. He's a thin line between Happy and insane.

Thomas Han Website

Mary Fleener
Mary Fleener has had a varied career as a comix artist, illustrator, and painter. She is best known for her book, LIFE OF THE PARTY a collection of autobiographical stories drawn in her signature "cubismo" style. Fleener also does ceramics and black velvet paintings.

Mary Fleener Website

CrAiGer
CrAiGer, aka Jon Craig, was born in '68 & grew up amidst the surf/skate Kulture in Manhattan Beach, California. Equipped with a BA in Graphic Design from San Diego State University, CrAiGer works full-time as a freelance graphic artist for various surf 'n merch companies in SoCal. In his spare time (if any) you can find him chillin' 'n grillin' with the bros or hidin' out in his studio creating "candy coated" canvas worlds of perfect waves & endless summers.

CrAiGer Website

Tes One
Tes One combines all that he knows from his street-art roots and his digital design profession, to create works of art that accurately depicts his perspective and the world around him. The end result of his work demonstrates the craft of his design as well as the rawness of his stenciled street art.

Tes One Website

Robert Williams
Legendary imagist painter Robert Williams sprang from the custom car culture of Southern California and the roots of the Underground Comix movement. He is known today as one of the world's most iconoclastic fine artists. Williams singlehandedly became the model of the "Outsider" art movement, influencing a generation of artists to create without concern for the fine art world. Robert Williams is the founder and publisher of Juxtapoz magazine.

Robert Williams Website

Suzanne Williams
Suzanne Williams' paintings are a quest for perfection. Each flowing geometric shape and complementary color scheme is meticulously hand painted using just a steady hand. These can take months or even years to complete. Her compositions are rock solid, radiating tension and balance in all directions in complex euality.

Suzanne Williams Website

Kii Arens
Kii Arens is a Pop-Art Designer with a bent towards Rock-N-Roll. Never formally trained, this St. Paul, Minnesota native grew up with a fascination for album covers, band logos, and font styles. He credits Saturday mornings in the '70's spent watching Sid and Marty Krofft as his main inspirations for color.

Kii Arens Website

Ralph Steadman
Ralph Steadman is renowned for his biting political and social cartoons and caricatures. He has also achieved prominence as the illustrator of numerous picture books which have been published all over the world. He has won numerous prizes and awards for his outstanding contribution to illustration.

Ralph Steadman Website

Jason Siu
Jason Siu is from Hong Kong and is considered to be among the triumvirate of artists who have made the scene what it is today. Jason has stuck true to his urban-vinyl roots with designs that run the hip-hop gamut, from hard-core gangsta to turntablist freaks while also dipping into other creative and design endeavors.

Jason Siu Website

Clive Barker
Clive Barker, best known for his films "HellRaiser" and "Candyman", is an acclaimed artist, best-selling author, film producer, and director. His latest artistic work includes a vast array of paintings to illuminate the text of "The Books Of Abarat", over one hundred of which can be found within each volume.

Clive Barker Website

Joe Vaux
Joe Vaux has shown his art in and around LA for the past 5 Years. His paintings are heavily influenced by the work of Bruegal and Bosch and anything else that's creepy or weird. He also finds that his family and friends are a constant source of inspiration. For the last 10 Years, Joe has been working in the Animation industry. He currently works on Fox's Family Guy.

Joe Vaux Website

John Berkey
Famous for his hundreds of space paintings for book covers, magazines, movie posters and advertisements, Berkey's career has been a long and impressive one. His amazing ability convinces us that huge spaceships are actually traveling through the voids, or hovering over densely populated space ports and cities, where movement, sight and sound are incorporated into a two-dimensional creation which seems plausible and real.

Worlds of Wonder Website

Jordan Crane
Indy-comics wunderkind Jordan Crane crafts beautiful and affecting stories that are full of expression and nuance. He is also a master of screen-printing and other reprographic methods as can be seen in his many beautiful prints.

Jordan Crane Website

CRASH
CRASH (John Matos) is a true pioneer of the Graffiti art movement. Using the IRT subway system as his launching pad, CRASH established a visual link between the underground street life and the world above. By the middle of 1989, "CRASH" had been featured in dozens of one man shows and group shows at galleries and museums around the world. CRASH's paintings reflect the influences of the great pop artists yet are convincingly original, retaining the humor and power.

Crash Website

H.R. Giger
Acclaimed Swiss surrealist H. R. Giger is the creator of the terrifying life forms and their otherworldly environment in the film classic ALIEN, for which he received the Oscar in 1980. Painter, sculptor, designer, interior architect,  Giger extends his artistic vision into all domains. Fundamental to the nature of his work is  his Biomechanical  aesthetic, a dialectic between man and machine, representing  a universe at once disturbing and sublime.

H.R. Giger Website

Viktor Koen
Viktor Koen's award-winning paintings, prints and books are shown in galleries and museums in the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia. His work is featured in numerous books and publications and is part of private and institutional collections.

Viktor Koen Website

Steven Cerio
Neo Psychedelic Artist Steven Cerio is an award winning illustrator and author of "Steven Cerio's ABC Book: A drug Primer". He has created animations for clients as diverse as Nickelodeon and San Francisco¹s darlings The Residents. As a gallery artist Cerio has shown throughout the States and Europe. His posters for Les Claypool, Moe, King Crimson and White Zombie are now legendary. Armed with a universe of dripping,grinning creatures his work is a sure psychedelic cure for melancholy.

Steven Cerio Website

Winston Smith
Smith has made a name for himself as a counterculture montage artist, with work appearing on everything from Dead Kennedys and Green Day album covers to Playboy Magazine. Smith brazenly composes his colorful works out of mid-twentieth century Americana imagery dissected from vintage magazines. The result is an inverse portrayal of romanticized American traditions such as Christianity, war, and family life.

Winston Smith Website

Simon Fearnhamm
Simon produced this life size, blackened bronze sculpture with a custom Eyepod and headphones. It was assembled bone by bone in wax and has a real-feel silicon coated false eye in its skull. The Eyepod is ebony encased in sterling silver with a hard acrylic eye. The headphones are made of black calfskin, carbon steel, stainless steel, forged iron and copper, and the cigarette from fossil mammoth ivory with rusty steel tobacco.

Simon Fearnhamm Website

Andy Suriano
Having recently been discovered as the cause of all the world'ss major problems, Andy continues his road of redemption hoping to make amends through his work in children's programming. An Annie award winning artist and designer on Emmy winning animated shows like Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Powerpuff Girls and Fairly Oddparents, he's currently producing a couple shows of his own for Warner Bros and Cartoon Network.

Andy Suriano Website

Jim Koch
Jim Koch is an illustrator, cartoonist and apparel artist who runs his own advertising firm in the Northwest. He was recently chosen by Guitar Cntr. corporate to paint a 10' Fender guitar for the Rock 'n Roll hall of fame. His guitar sits next to the likes of Peter Max, Alice Cooper and Keith Richards. He also works as illustrator and designer for MotorCult, Circus Punks and Room 13. His recent projects are custom Vinyl toys, Radio Shack/X-mods branding, Team Pepsi/Taco Bell Top Fuel Dragster, RoadRunner records and RIVET equipped of Australia to name a few.

Jim Koch Website

Tim Biskup
Tim Biskup's dense, character driven style is inspired by mid-century modern design infused with a healthy dose of punk rock energy. Since the mid-eighties, he has produced a constant stream of limited edition prints, clothing, toys, books and other publications. He's collaborated with artists Mark Ryden and Gary Baseman and organized art auctions and exhibitions. His highly sought after original paintings and sculptures have been shown worldwide, including galleries in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Kyoto and Melbourne.

Tim Biskup Website

Steve Rude
Steve, a lanky Wisconsinite nicknamed "The Dude" considers Jack Kirby one of his biggest influences. To KirbyÕs streamlined dynamism, Steve has added his own style of polish and attention to detail which has made his work popular with fans. Nexus, an offbeat science fiction superhero written and co-created with Mike Baron, remains his most sustained and best-known work to date. He has won much industry recognition and is one of the hardest working artists in the Comic's field, constantly striving to improve his work.

Steve Rude Website

Tony Millionaire
Millionaire is a great master of the old-time freewheeling comic strip, and this work takes full-advantage of every last bit of the medium. Transporting, irreverent and unique, all beautifully drawn. He has won numerous Eisner and Harvey Awards, including ÒBest Syndicated StripÓ in 2004. Tony Millionaire's Maakies is one of the most popular weekly comic strips in America, running in many of the largest U.S. weekly newspaper.

Tony Millionaire Website

Thorsten Hasenkamm
Thorsten started to draw as soon as he could hold a pencil and now resides in Germany. His influences are comics, cartoons & animation in general, expressionism and 50's/60's retro stuff. He is great character designer with a penchant for color styling, Thorsten works well in both traditional and digital mediums. He doesn't miss a beat.

Thorsten Hasenkamm Website

John Bell
John Bell is an academy award nominated art director who has contributed to some of the most significant special effects films made in the last decade. John began his career working for GENERAL MOTORS in their Advanced Concepts Studios. Since then, he has held highly respected artistic positions at ILM, Nike, Atari, DreamWorks, and BMW. Currently John is the Senior Art Director for Electronic Arts.

John Bell Website

Cam de Leon
Cam de Leon (born in Modesto, California in 1962) is an American artist who specialises in surreal darkly fantastic imagery. He has created most of the band Tool's artwork, as well as working as a digital illustrator, doing concept and visual development and character design for the feature animation industry. He worked as a digital illustrator for movies such as Ghostbusters, Hook, The Sum of All Fears, Cat in the Hat and The City of Lost Children.

Cam de Leon Website

Gris Grimly
The creator of the bizarre, Gris Grimly can best be described as a storyteller. Through his distinctive style and wide selection of mediums as an author, illustrator, fine artist, sculptor, and film-maker, Mr. Grimly has captivated a variety of loyal collectors. Primarilly known for his dark yet humorous children's books, his visions haunt the imagination of people of all ages.

Gris Grimly Website