May 2008
"Rubble Runts" t-shirt for Stussy's Customade Our Gangs #2 Series:
It's a 4-color design (in black, white and two grays). Stussy offers it printed on black or white shirts. Limited Edition.
April 2008
Osaka Popstar's new CD has a John Pound GPK painting
on the cover.
(CD due in stores May 20, 2008.)
The CD also includes a special Topps limited edition GPK card
insert.
The cover art was extended by the artist, with wider sides, for CD and promo use.
November 2007
A John Pound Interview is on Barren Aaron's Garbage Pail Kids website.
August 2007
John Pound's "Red
Menace" vinyl doll
is in Jamungo's
"Blow-Up Dolls" Series 2.
September 2006
A couple new personal art pieces from the WOO-WOO series are
in The BLAB! SHOW,
(September 23 to October 21, 2006) at the Copro-Nason Gallery,
in the Los Angeles area.
One of the pieces, "STONE MAZE", will be published in
BLAB! 17, (November 2006). The other piece, "BRICK
ROOMS", is scheduled for BLAB! 18 (November 2007).
A painting of the Ramones, used as an inside cover for
Rhino's boxed set book, will be in American Illustration
25 (November 2006).
And work continues on painting new Garbage Pail Kids and Wacky Packages for Topps.
February 2005
RAN DUM 1, a catalog of John Pound's experimental random computer-generated comics and cartoon art prints is now available. Full-color, 28 pages, 8.5"x11", 200 copies. Brief text by the artist. Price is $12.00 plus 3.00 postage within the US.
November 2004
"Self-Portrait", a randomly generated digital artwork is on the American Illustration #23 website.
April 2004
Several randomly generated digital comics artworks by John Pound were on display April 1 to 24, 2004, in an all-digital art show, "Of a Digital Palette" at the Ink People Gallery, 411 Twelfth St., Eureka, California. (Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11 to 4.)
March 2004
Topps published GARBAGE PAIL KIDS All-New Series #2.
November 2003
Roger Gastman's MORNING WOOD art book includes some
of John Pound's recent experimental art. The book has 50 artists
with 4 pages art and bio for each -- Lots of grafitti and skateboard
type art.
More
info on Amazon.com
October 2003
Humboldt State University's First Street Gallery (422 1st St., Eureka, California) had a one-man show of artwork by John Pound, from Saturday, Oct. 4 (opening reception with artist, 6 - 9 PM) through Sun. Nov. 9. The gallery had a one-man show of Jeff Jordan's artwork at the same time.
August 2003
Topps published a new series of GARBAGE PAIL KIDS. It includes
new art and some previously unpublished art from Series 16. Artists
include John Pound, Tom Bunk, Jay Lynch.
May 2003
Another page of John Pound's random computer- generated comics
won an award in the Redwood Art Association Spring competition
(at the Morris Graves Museum, Eureka, CA, April - May 2003). Judge:
Kenneth Baker, art critic for S.F. Chronicle.
New skateboard designs for SHORTY'S
May 2002
A recent page of John Pound's random computer- generated comics won a top award in the Redwood Art Association Spring competition (at the Morris Graves Museum, Eureka, CA, May 2002).
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WHILE YOU WERE
SLEEPING #14
cover art --
GPK-style painting features Jay and Silent Bob, from their
recent movie
July 2001
Interview with John Pound at:
www.malepig.com/pound.php
(2005: site no longer up)
June 2001
Another recent interview with John Pound at:
www.brassknuckles.net
(2003: site no longer up)
June 2001
13 of Burger King's "FAIRY TALE FREAKS" cards were painted from pencil sketches by John Pound. They were visible on Burger King's website during June 2001, as a SHREK movie tie-in.
April 2001
PC MAGAZINE Vol. 20, #8 (April 24, 2001) had a large Pound illustration -- a coke bottle on a glowing red background -- for a feature on "Branding"
October 2000
"WHAT WAS I THINKING?!" --A show of John Pound's paintings, drawings and illustrations was held at College of the Redwoods' Creative Arts Gallery, from October 2 to November 9, 2000.
May 2000
SHOUT (a New York entertainment magazine) had an interview
with John Pound in their May 2000 issue (www.shoutny.com)
March 2000
A John Pound spot illustration was in BUSINESS WEEK (3/20/2000), page 128.
January 2000
A John Pound interview appeared in WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
#8 (Jan/Feb 2000), a grafitti/ pop culture magazine
A logo by John Pound was accepted into the ALL NEW AMERICAN
LOGO competition. The book is now available, from Madison
Square Press, and contains over 700 logo designs by various artists.
"THE MARTYDOM OF ST. VALENTINE", a recent painting by John Pound, is in SPECTRUM 7, a collection of recent fantasy art by various artists.
Shorty's Skateboards:
The "Nasty Wrastlin Bastards" skateboard decks
series painted by John Pound (series was sold out by the end of
summer 2000)
This site first went online in December 1997.
