The art we did for The Flatliners is up on Fat Wreck.
Stoked for these guys!!
Linus saw the omen, but no one believed him! THE GREAT PUMPKIN LIVES!
Fright-Rags commissioned me with this hypothetical spoof, which is of course inspired by the classic Peanuts Halloween staple, “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”. I had a lot of fun revisited these characters from my youth and even more fun killing them off.
You can snag one NOW at Fright-Rags.com
Also, if you’ve got 20 minutes or so to burn you can stream the original Peanuts cartoon from YouTube 
The good people at Death, Shred! Clothing (formerly known as Dead, Serious!) has a brand new batch of skater gear for you kids to get ragers over! I did the Tea Time design and Joey did a killer job rocking out their website and store. There’s a ton of great pieces in this release so head over and support these dudes and their hot Belgian models!
Our friends over at Enfants Fleurs/Flower Children just posted a beautifully done teaser video for the launch of their new clothing line. They just did a soft launch in their home turf of Quebec, but the whole line will be available for viewing and purchase some day soon. We were privileged to be able to play a role in the realization of their highly conceptual line and are eager to show off our hard work when it drops!
If you’re anything like me, when coming across a fresh edition of MAD magazine, instead of sinking your teeth right into the meat of the magazine you went straight to the back page and did the MAD fold-in. The person we have to thank for engineering this marvel is illustrator, Al Jaffee. Mr. Jaffee is MAD’s longest running collaborator and still going strong at age 89. The NY Times just did an incredible exposé on his process as well as compiled a number of Jaffee’s fold-ins in an interactive multimedia gallery. I think the most incredible aspect of his process is how he can’t even fold the artwork until its printed. Pretty amazing!
Check out the full article and multimedia galleries here
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/02/books/02jaffee.html
Design Process Time Lapse - by Derek Deal from The Black Axe on Vimeo.
I get asked a lot how i go about making my designs so i figured I’d give a general overview of how I work. The video above is a time lapse of the entire process of a design i did for The Amity Affliction. If you’re one of them readin’ types, I’ve broken it all down into steps below.
We finally went and got ourselves a proper facebook page. There is absolutely nothing there yet, but go and be fan and write stuff so it looks like we’ve been there for years.
UPDATE: we got a real URL for it!
http://www.facebook.com/theblackaxe
We just put The Axe up on Behance. We still have ton more stuff to upload on there, but you get the idea. Check it out http://www.behance.net/theblackaxe
