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It’s almost here—Heavy Metal’s 40th Anniversary Art Show, opening THIS SATURDAY (July 15) at Copro Gallery in the Bergamot Arts Complex, 2525 Michigan Ave T5, in Santa Monica. You can get more of the deets and the full list of artists here: Heavy Metal 40th Anniversary Art Show Opens July 15!. This show is going to kick so much ass—we’re talking 100+ works by artists who’ve been in Heavy Metal, or have always wanted to be.
MORE GALLERIES: Preview Gallery 2 • Preview Gallery 3 • Preview Gallery 4
Here is but a small sampling:
Cam Rackam, “The Compact” (2017), 58″ x 47″ oil on board
William Stout, “Ahrzach 2017,” adapted Jean “Moebius” Giraud sketch
10.75″ x 7.25″ Ink and watercolor
Tim Molloy, “Mr. Unpronounceable Receives
Distressing News”
Mathew Bone, “Bad Blood,” 14″ x 11″ Oil on panel
Maegan LeMay, “Crypt”
Ben Olson, “Portrait of Taarna at Home,” 11″ x 8″ (15″ x 10″ framed), Acrylic, Ink, Digital, Collage
Dave Palumbo, “Born of the Machine” (2017), 18″ x 14″ oil on panel
Chris Leib, “One Way Ticket” (2017), 8″ x 8″ oil on panel
June 27, 2017 •
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Nerdist today broke a story we’ve been hard pressed to keep to ourselves, but now it can be told: Heavy Metal is publishing Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast, a comic series inspired by Iron Maiden’s catalog and starring the band’s well-known mascot Eddie. “As a lifelong fan
March 23, 2017 •
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Good news, comics lovers: The Doorman, the standalone miniseries that we published in 2016, is now available as a collected edition. To refresh your memory, The Doorman is a comedic sci-fi adventure written by Daniel Kibblesmith (of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert) and Eliot Rahal (The
December 22, 2016 •
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Hold on to your mistletoe, Heavy Metal fans — issue 284, our “Mythic Special,” is headed your way! And when we talk about myths, there’s really no better embodiment of the concept than our own iconic heroine Taarna. Yes, the star of the full length animated Heavy Metal movie
September 9, 2016 •
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A few days ago, Heavy Metal editor-in-chief Grant Morrison chatted with our friends at io9. He shared his thoughts on the current issue and the overall experience of putting his stamp on this nearly 30-year old comics institution. The entire interview is worth reading; here are a few choice
July 28, 2016 •
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We have a winner, folks: Patrick Reilly’s “Taarna Returns” has taken top honors in the first-ever Heavy Metal Cover Contest, a joint production with Threadless.com. The announcement took place during San Diego Comic Con, where t-shirts bearing Reilly’s art and that of two
June 30, 2016 •
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If you picked up Heavy Metal 280 (famous before it even came out for being Grant Morrison’s editorial debut), you got a taste of Mozchops, the poet/artist behind “Salsa Invertebraxa.” Hell, you might even have issue #280 with the Mozchops variant cover. But who tf is Mozchops?
April 18, 2016 •
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Yes, you read that headline right: Heavy Metal magazine is holding a contest for artists to design the magazine’s cover! We’re doing it in cooperation with Threadless, a site that brings art from indie creators to the masses. Here’s the scoop on the contest from the official page
January 30, 2016 •
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About a week ago, we put up a strange post that was partially a criticism of Vice’s “Best Comics of 2015″ list, and partially a meditation on the frustrating nature of “year’s best” lists in general. But the post had a middle section where we got needlessly
January 22, 2016 •
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We found these Boris Vallejo/Heavy Metal-themed pictures of model and performer Gia Nova too good not to share. We also took a little time to get some insight on the inspiration and process from the lady herself. Enjoy! What was the process behind these images — who did you shoot these
