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Personal Update for This Week
Today My Giger Alien Toys are Sad for His Death The Long Story
The toys I keep on the most highlighted place on my toy bookshelf are the toy “Aliens”. The Internet is a buzz with the death of the artist H.R. Giger today. His greatest moment of mainstream fame involved Ridley Scott in the production phases of the movie Alien. Movie work on backgrounds and costuming that lead to a successful franchise of popular movies.
Having read his one of his biography books (which I someday need to return to the New Orleans friend I got it from, sorry Robert G) I noticed the death biography articles seem to think he never drew a thing before he met Scott for Aliens. Yet he started doing artwork long before Aliens, as a comic strip artist for his school newspaper under the title “Nuclear Children”. Many of the images from his “H.R. GIGER Authentic Poster Print "ZOMBIES ON SAFARI" A.K.A. NUCLEAR CHILDREN” are still available today on Ebay from his comic strip days. I write many comic strip journals online and he has inspired many cartoon and comic artists in modern day. He was a man who was great at creating controversy, the many articles on his death ranged from reverent awe at the death of an art God, to pretty much amused contempt.
Like many artists he often had to do more low budget comedy oriented work to get pretty much any exposure at all. Bryan Enk writer of the article “H.R. Giger’s 10 Freakiest Creations” (2014) refers to the movie Giger did the poster for known as “Future Kill” as “Imagine "Porky's" meets "The Terminator" but not nearly as good as that sounds” which seems kind of rude to point out in a death announcement for heaven’s sake. The article shows many other unflattering depictions of Giger and his work. Giger hit a popularity surge in the 90s, and some people do not remember that era as fondly as others.
However, I tend to look at the 90s fondly, much like the author at The Verge. “The Verge” article 'Alien' artist H.R. Giger dead at 74 Swiss surrealist rewrote the rulebook on how to design a movie monster”(2014) by Sam Byford pretty much gushes every compliment the writer can think of about the artist including praise for inventing and popularizing biomechanical themes. The popularity of biomechanical art in tattoo work has been controversial in Giger’s rise to fame. Movie fame can have a dark side with any work of art, and in how it gets re-used artists often have no control. Giger’s constant love of extreme and dark themes, and his love of black clad clothing to hide the black ink he constantly used in sketched and sculpted images, was controversial. It is not the sort of art work you can use to read to kindergarteners, and there is a great deal of apocalyptic death imagery there. He is after all from the era that brought us “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome”. Like a black canvas you see what you want to see, he seems mysterious to some, and sinister to others. I thank him for being an inspiration to people who enjoy drawing illustrations and comic strips on the Internet. I bow my head in silence for him to have a good trip to the afterlife.
FH7 comics are now archived here on these top sites of the net, pick your favorite and add me to friends:
http://fhseven.com/ – Authors Reviews and links at WordPress Blog comics in E-Mail.
http://fh7publishing.com/ – Main Illustration and Fan Fiction Page. © 2013
http://maelstromgrlie.deviantart.com/ – FH7 Publishing Deviantart
http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/FH7 - Care2 Environmental – The FH7 Comics Environmental Conservation Group and Animal Neglect Prevention page.
Today My Giger Alien Toys are Sad for His Death The Long Story
The toys I keep on the most highlighted place on my toy bookshelf are the toy “Aliens”. The Internet is a buzz with the death of the artist H.R. Giger today. His greatest moment of mainstream fame involved Ridley Scott in the production phases of the movie Alien. Movie work on backgrounds and costuming that lead to a successful franchise of popular movies.
Having read his one of his biography books (which I someday need to return to the New Orleans friend I got it from, sorry Robert G) I noticed the death biography articles seem to think he never drew a thing before he met Scott for Aliens. Yet he started doing artwork long before Aliens, as a comic strip artist for his school newspaper under the title “Nuclear Children”. Many of the images from his “H.R. GIGER Authentic Poster Print "ZOMBIES ON SAFARI" A.K.A. NUCLEAR CHILDREN” are still available today on Ebay from his comic strip days. I write many comic strip journals online and he has inspired many cartoon and comic artists in modern day. He was a man who was great at creating controversy, the many articles on his death ranged from reverent awe at the death of an art God, to pretty much amused contempt.
Like many artists he often had to do more low budget comedy oriented work to get pretty much any exposure at all. Bryan Enk writer of the article “H.R. Giger’s 10 Freakiest Creations” (2014) refers to the movie Giger did the poster for known as “Future Kill” as “Imagine "Porky's" meets "The Terminator" but not nearly as good as that sounds” which seems kind of rude to point out in a death announcement for heaven’s sake. The article shows many other unflattering depictions of Giger and his work. Giger hit a popularity surge in the 90s, and some people do not remember that era as fondly as others.
However, I tend to look at the 90s fondly, much like the author at The Verge. “The Verge” article 'Alien' artist H.R. Giger dead at 74 Swiss surrealist rewrote the rulebook on how to design a movie monster”(2014) by Sam Byford pretty much gushes every compliment the writer can think of about the artist including praise for inventing and popularizing biomechanical themes. The popularity of biomechanical art in tattoo work has been controversial in Giger’s rise to fame. Movie fame can have a dark side with any work of art, and in how it gets re-used artists often have no control. Giger’s constant love of extreme and dark themes, and his love of black clad clothing to hide the black ink he constantly used in sketched and sculpted images, was controversial. It is not the sort of art work you can use to read to kindergarteners, and there is a great deal of apocalyptic death imagery there. He is after all from the era that brought us “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome”. Like a black canvas you see what you want to see, he seems mysterious to some, and sinister to others. I thank him for being an inspiration to people who enjoy drawing illustrations and comic strips on the Internet. I bow my head in silence for him to have a good trip to the afterlife.
FH7 comics are now archived here on these top sites of the net, pick your favorite and add me to friends:
http://fhseven.com/ – Authors Reviews and links at WordPress Blog comics in E-Mail.
http://fh7publishing.com/ – Main Illustration and Fan Fiction Page. © 2013
http://maelstromgrlie.deviantart.com/ – FH7 Publishing Deviantart
http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/FH7 - Care2 Environmental – The FH7 Comics Environmental Conservation Group and Animal Neglect Prevention page.
