The Punisher is, without a doubt, one of the most undervalued characters in the Marvel Comics catalogue. Frankly he should be bigger than Spiderman (in whose comic, incidentally, he debuted… as a villain), yet due to two shit movie attempts at capturing the story of Frank Castle he languishes in the zeitgest somewhere between Ghost [...]

Subtext Gallery in San Diego is hosting artist Tim Maclean’s first solo show, Fragments & Phantoms, which opened July 14 during Comic Con. The timing makes sense given Maclean’s work plays on fantasy’s invasion of the real world, much like Comic Con itself. Fantasy stems from the mental realm, or as Maclean says, “the place where [...]

The Marvellini brothers of Milan are injecting surreal into the 21st century. Firebombing tactics of dining hall wall grandeur, they’ve created a name for themselves in Italy through the digital enhancement of vintage portraits. Not into retouching, their enhancement reigns in obscuring features by way of a virtual Marvel masquerade — adorned with masks of [...]

Read previous posts from Bureaucracy for Breakfast HERE. This week a riveting scandal rocked the internet, once again pitting the roughhewn ax-wielding 99% masses against their mortal enemy: Evil, greedy bankers. You probably saw this photo, unless you’re one of those Pinocchios who “never goes on Facebook” … So many people were enraged. Damn the 1% [...]

You know, I’m actually not hating on these Marvel Superhero Hoodies. 90% of the times comic book clothing licenses are about as creative as laundry detergent commercials, or as appealing as Ed Hardy on a Revere Beach guido, but these hoodies actually look alright. The long-sleeve, full-zip hooded sweatshirts are 60% cotton / 40% polyester, [...]

After forming during their high school years in Calgary, Alberta, the four best friends who make up BRAIDS moved their prairie Canadian behinds to the cosmopolitan wonderfulness of Montreal. Entrenching themselves in the city of poutin and painfully cute artsters, the foursome holed up in a dilapitaded house in a Hasidic neighborhood to craft the [...]

Quirky and cartoony, this fashion line by British designer Ralph Rovero is appropriately titled Who Needs A Superhero? due to being inspired by hero’s of Rovero’s youth, such as Power Rangers, Pokemon, Superman, Spiderman, and X-Men. Rovero used copious latex to help create a stretchy fit for all superhero activites, and colorblocked it with bold [...]

We’ve been big fans of Jim Mahfood even before he rocked our launch party last August. Prior to that we’d collaborated on a 16-page comic book for BPM magazine, and ever since he’s been one of our favorite LA artists. Whether it’s working on Kevin Smith’s Clerks or Marvel’s Spider-Man comic books, doing murals for [...]