Salad Fingers
Ok, now this is weird stuff. Unsettling, dark and utterly brilliant. I shudder to think of the ideas that Salad Fingers creator David Firth dismisses before he lands on these five minute vignettes of folkloric surrealism. Genius or pure lunacy. It’s a fine line indeed. [see also Izzie Klingels]
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UK illustrator Izzie Klingels creates the loveliest, delicate black and white stippled drawings that she seems to find a myriad of endless applications for. Most interestingly, Klingels appears to do quite a large amount of work within the fashion industry, something of a minor coup for an illustrator in this day and age. Read more
Montreal-based artist Steve Adams has a distinct style that has seen his work featured in the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post amongst many others. He is the proud owner of a cat, the muse for much of his creative explorations. [see also Izzie Klingels ]
One of our favourite illustrators, the UK-based Izzie Klingels, is currently working on a series of animated VTs for the new series of ‘Transmission’ (Channel 4), entitled ‘Memoirs of a Groupie’. Illustrated and directed by Klingels with animation company Popular Society the clips recount the stories of legendary 60s groupie, Pamela des Barres. This follows on from her animations for the recent Volvo commercial Happy Sad, which was, directed Rachel Thomas. [see also Izzie Klingels]
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FizzGig said | 2 August, 2007
I really adored Salad Fingers when I first discovered him – there wasnt much like it at all.. However I do think that one cartoon tops it on the whole “sick and twisted” thing, which is Spoilsbury Toast Boy.
One of Firths masterpieces methinks – there are only two episodes, but that seems to be a good thing – any more and your brain would explode 
Ashley said | 6 December, 2007
I love salad fingers…. he is somewhat crazy and you see his life the way he sees it. I have to say this is my favorite infamous cartoon…
“I like it when the red water comes out”
“I shalln’t play with you again until you’ve had a wash.”
“It seems the nettles have made the milk come out of my teat.”
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From this artist selection of t-shirts comes this Christina Koustospirou illustration, silkscreened on a limited edition t-shirt, and distributed in a vinyl sleeve, with a biography of the artist on the back of the sleeve. Every t-shirt is numbered and signed by the artist, and comes in organic cotton.
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Kane said | 30 July, 2007
I think that this cartoon is a try to make a cartoon for the Goth subculture, that’s why it’s made real dark and strange. If you see other “gothic” cartoons, they tend to be a lot like this and they tend to have dark humor also (like when he squished the worm thing).