Pete Fowler (born 1969 in Cardiff) is a Welsh artist best known for his artwork for the Welsh band Super Furry Animals. He is a freelance illustrator and “monster creator” inspired by Japanese art, folklore, myths, psychedelia and super nature. He has also done a number of other projects in the UK and Japan, such as television advertisements (Kia Picanto), as well as having art exhibitions all over the world. Fowler works in a variety of media, including drawing, painting, animation, and sculpture.

Fowler’s art is done in a postmodern cartoon style. His work revolves around a central narrative and features a recurring set of characters. The “monsters” Fowler creates all reside on “Monsterism Island.” Fowler invents extensive back-stories for his characters; each has its own specific traits and levels of “monsterism.” Fowler is most known for his designer toys of his characters, which he himself manufactures with his own company.

A CD called The Sounds of Monsterism Island was released in 2005 by Heavenly Records. According to the press release “The record is a compilation album that works as a soundtrack to the world of Monsterism…The album features psychedelic music from the ’60s through to today, much of it unearthed and put on CD for the first time.” In 2006, Fowler created a set of comics about Monsterism Island which have been featured in Vice Magazine. Fowler’s website features short Flash animations of his characters, and Fowler has stated that he is preparing a set of animated films.

The second soundtrack to Monsterism Island will be released by Lo recordings in early 2009 and features mostly new compositions by a host of contemporary musicians.

(Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Fowler)

Fontana was born in Seattle, Washington and raised on Bainbridge Island. He began his interest in art at a young age. During his teens he commuted to two High Schools in order to study graphic design, photography, sculpture and life drawing. After graduating in 1994, he pursued his education of life in the streets of Seattle and Portland as a Graffiti Artist. After about 4 years of being in and out of towns and community colleges, Fontana chose to attend Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles in 1998. Four years later Fontana left with a BFA in Communication Art/Design at the top of his class with the “Best in Show” award that is presented upon Graduation in 2002. During School he worked as an Art Director at a design firm, Abound LLC, and also as an Art Director at a Fashion/Lifestyle Magazine, Metro Pop. Recently Fontana had worked as an Art Director at a young men’s apparel company, Drifter. In January of 2003 he became self-employed as a fine artist and designer. He spent the next 5 years developing his unique style and becoming well known aound the So Cal gallery scene and companies as a rising artist and designiner. After pursuing his career and vision in LA for 9 years he has recently returned to his roots on Bainbridge Island, Washington. He is now expanding his studio to more design services like furniture, home furnishings, sculpture and others.

(Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaine_Fontana)

Fitzpatrick begin seriously drawing with pastels on slate board in a store front in the town of Villa Park, Illinois. He worked by day and bartended at the bar across the street, at night, in the early 1980s. During that time, he developed separate friendships with Chicago radio personality and bluesman and film director Jonathan Demme. Demme and Kilman are longtime friends, and the three became close. As a result, Tony has starred in a few of Demme’s films and other films as well. During the late 1980s, he begin getting gallery shows in Chicago and New York City, establishing connections that would lead him to be a successful working artist who has sold paintings to several film directors, among others. Tony is also an accomplished poet and has published several books of his art and poetry, including The Hard Angels and The Neighborhood. Sports often figures into his art and poetry, especially his favorite baseball team, the Chicago White Sox, but he also gains inspiration from the city of Chicago, and the underbelly of society. Tony in his past has been a boxer, bouncer, and bartender.

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The title ‘Ben Frost is Dead’ comes from his 2000 solo exhibition of the same name where he faked his own death. Invitations were created in the form of a newspaper funeral notice and distributed nation-wide. Newspapers labelled him ’sick’ and his actions ‘perverse’, when by complete coincidence the invitations went out on the same day a local art patron died.

The collaborative exhibition ‘Colossus’ with Roderick Bunter in 2000 at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane featured a 12m x 2.4m mural by the artists, called ‘Where Do You Want To Go Today?’. Containing controversial imagery including masturbating cartoon characters amongst a pastiche of advertising icons, the work was a statement on society’s continuing loss of innocence. In the final week of the exhibition, a disgruntled viewer entered the gallery and slashed one of the paintings with a knife. Police requested the exhibition be closed.

In 2002 he exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney as part of ‘Primavera: Young Artists Under 35′, where the same painting ‘Where do You Want To Go Today?’ was exhibited. Police also requested the painting be removed due to public concern.

In 2003 he moved to Tokyo where he contributed as an illustrator to magazines such as Black + White, Blue and Men’s Style for over 3 years.

In 2005 he moved to Sydney Australia where he continues to live and work. He has had exhibitions in New York, San Francisco and throughout Europe. In 2007 Frost participated in Tiger Translate in Beijing collaborating with local Chinese artists.

Fury at drug-taking kids painting by Anna Edwards, MX via news.com.au, July 18, - Another of his paintings that made news in 2007

Ben Frost is commonly mistaken for Ben Frost (musician) there are in fact two well known Australian Ben Frosts, to confuse matters more both are of similar age and have collaborated on projects together.

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Jeremy Fish is an illustrator and artist living in San Francisco. He was born and raised in upstate New York, and moved to San Francisco in 1994 to attend art school. He received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1996.

In 2006, Nike Skateboarding released a version of the Air Classic shoe with artwork designed by Fish.

Fish has collaborated with Aesop Rock since the latter’s move to San Francisco in 2005. In the fall of 2006, the pair created a book entitled The Next Best Thing, which also included a 7-inch picture disk. Fish later created the artwork for Aesop Rock’s fifth studio album None Shall Pass, released by Definitive Jux.

(Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Fish)

Renée French (born 1963) is an American comics writer and illustrator and, under the pen name Rainy Dohaney, a children’s book author.

Her work includes The Soap Lady (inspired by the display in the Mütter Museum), The Ticking, and Micrographica. She also has a weekly strip in the New York Press. French drew Glenda, the Plan 9 Bunny, the mascot of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system. French is married to one of Plan 9’s creators, Rob Pike. In 2006, underground cartoonist and writer Casanova Shamdil announced he is writing a book in graphic novel format about French’s life.

(Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renée_French)

(Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Flora)

Amy Franceschini (born 1970, in Patterson, California) is a contemporary American artist and designer. Her practice spans a broad range of media including drawing, sculpture, design, net art, public art and gardening.

Life and work

Franceschini founded Futurefarmers in 1995 as a way to bring together multidisciplinary artists. Through Futurefarmers she has collaborated with a number of artists, including Sascha Merg, Josh On. She teaches courses at Stanford University and the San Francisco Art Institute

Frequent themes in Franceschini’s work are gardening, public space, technology, and social change.

Franceschini’s work often takes a visual approach to articulating perceived conflicts between humans and nature, and the individual to a community. She works both as an artist as well as a designer.

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