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I was asked by someone working with the Ron Paul 2012 campaign to design a t-shirt for a Philadelphia Fund Raiser that takes place February 6th at National Mechanics. The event is being organized by Patrick Rodgers, the incredibly brilliant man who not only owns and runs Digital Ferret Records and Nocturne at Club Shampoo, but also foreclosed on a Wells Fargo branch.

The brief was simple: A 3-color design for an upcoming fundraiser that showed Ron Paul, the Liberty Bell, and the headline "Philadelphia. Liberty. The Constitution." After messing around with a few different ideas and concepts, I went with what you see here; a fairly straight-forward design with a focus on showing how presidential he is.

The shirts will be available at the Ron Paul Fundraiser in Philadelphia on February 6th at National Mechanics, which starts at 6:30PM. For a small donation of $20 you get access to some great food and political discussion. Oh, and you can buy this shirt while you're there, too.

Also, you can check out the piece itself on my DeviantArt account.

The photo of Ron Paul come from Gage Skidmore, who I can't thank enough!

I was contacted by my good friend and author Y.K. Greene to design the cover for her latest book, Ash of Ambitions. The job was actually rather different for me; Instead of being asked to illustrate or just design a cover, she also wanted me to do the photography as well.

So after a long search for the perfect model, we hired local model Niishie Elf who has done some amazing stuff and who I met at another shoot. We did the entire shoot in the Philadelphia Subway system on a fairly cold day. During the shoot itself I contacted Greene to make sure we got the pose she wanted.

Designing the title was fairly easy and a lot of fun, and I'm incredibly proud of the final product!

You can also check out a larger version of the cover here.


Plus, you can buy her new book here!

Larry West here!

I've compiled my 10 favorite Gig Posters and put them together in an ULTRA-LIMITED EDITION SET! I've been designing and creating gig posters for years and I decided it was time to present them in the best way possible!

Each poster is printed on 90lb Vellum Paper stock and comes in a one-of-a-kind folder designed and assembled by myself! Each set includes:

• Anvil - 2010
• Wednesday 13 - 2011
• Mayhem - 2011
• In Flames - 2009
• Municipal Waster - 2009
• Devin Townsend - 2010
• Obituary - 2009
• Deicide - 2011
• Arch Enemy - 2010
• Holy Grail - 2011

Each set is shipped flat via USPS Priority Mail and comes with tracking. The first TEN BUYERS will get a SPECIAL SURPRISE!!!!

As an added bonus, if you guy the set on Black Friday (November 25, 2011), I'll actually toss in a FREE SKETCH!!!! Remember, its only for tomorrow!!!

It's all yours for only $100! CHEAP! Especially since each print tends to sell for $20 or more, this is a DEAL! So come on, buy one! NOW!

Looking for a photographer to do your next goth or punk photo shoot? Do you want someone with experience who can take photos that can put others to shame and make you the envy of all your friends? Are you looking to take your modeling career to heights you haven't been able to make it to before because you don't have great photos?

Then what the hell are you doing looking around for?! You've got the photographer you want right here!

If you live in the Philadelphia area and need a photographer, I'm your guy! I've been practicing for years and every model I've worked with has said that I've been the best photographer they've had worked with. So why settle for the rest when you can have the best?

Check out the Photo Shoot Packages I offer:

Package A:
10 Photos
High-Res Images
60 Minute Shoot
$100

Package B:
20 Photos
High-Res Images
120 Minute Shoot
$200

Package C:
30 Photos
High-Res Images
150 Minute Shoot
$250

Each package allows you to change your outfit as much as you want, but it needs to be within the time of the shoot. It also includes only one location, and if your interested in multiple locations we can work that out.

If you're interested, send an e-mail to larrywest@moriseomics.com and we'll set something up!

I wanted to do something COMPLETELY different as a gig poster than I had ever done before, and since Mayhem has always had an aura of terror and mysticism about them (anyone who knows Norwegian black metal will tell you that!), and I wanted to capture the feeling I got from them when I listen to "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas", specifically the title track.

MAYHEM will be playing The Trocadero November 4th at 7PM!

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The idea of the monster was that it was this... thing. I didn't want it to be anything, actually, just this weird otherworldly creature. Its a mix of Chtulu and the monster from Watchmen, with a bit of my own weirdness mixed in.

One thing I loved about doing this piece was the fact that it reminded me of how I worked back in High School; sitting at my desk at night drawing the most Satanic and terrifying things I could imagine!

I did do the type separately in this case, and I drew it by hand and scanned it back in. Getting the tentacles to wrap was something I wanted, but I also wanted everything behind it, too.

Other than the way the entire typography was handled on this poster, the other big change is the way I showed the main band name; I decided to let it bleed off the page. I knew it was easy enough to read that passing by you would go, "Oh fuck, MAYHEM is in town? I need to go! NOW!"

Check out the piece on DeviantArt!

When I heard Wednesday 13 was coming to town, I knew I HAD to do a gig poster for it! He's one of my favorite musicians, and his mix of horror, punk, and metal is just awesome! He has a sense of humor to his music that gives it a large amount of appeal, and his later work has taken on a more sinister tone that has given it a different life!

I wanted to do something that was a mix of classic horror fun and great illustration. I knew I wanted to do one of the "classic" horror movie monsters, you know, the Universal Studios monsters, and I knew I wanted to do them as women. I wound up going with The Bride of Frankenstein, which also happens to be one of my favorite songs written by Wednesday 13!

I decided to do this as fast as possible because I wanted to capture a mix of the old-style movie posters and the grindhouse ideal as well which were both heavily present in his music. I'm pretty happy with the end result!

WEDNESDAY 13 will be playing The Trocadero October 30th at 7PM!

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Art-wise, this thing was insane! I had wanted to do it since August, but I never had a solid idea. With less than a week before the show, I knew I wanted to do something, so I came up with an idea Monday and Tuesday after I got home from work I went ahead and tried to do it full-tilt!

I wound up laying out everything twice, the second time just ignoring any of the rules I knew and having fun with it! That wound up being exactly what I needed, and I think there's a good feel to the illustration that makes it come alive! I also did a live-blogging of it while working on it.

The hardest part, just like all of my posters, isn't the illustration itself, it's designing the actual poster. I got to it around 11:30AM and thought it would only be 30 minutes. How wrong I was! The design was the single hardest part of this piece!

I wound up using a bunch of grunge textures on it because I definitely wanted the piece to look a little old, but at the same time I wanted to make sure the colors still popped.

More than anything, though, I've wanted to do a great Bride of Frankenstein drawing for about 3 years now. I never really tried until I had an idea I loved, and I hope you enjoy it! She'll be used in another piece soon!

It's been a long week.

On October 5th, I went to a planning meeting with the newly-formed Art Committee for Occupy Philadelphia. I knew I wanted to help out in any way I possibly could, and I figured the best way for me would be to design protest posters. They were designed that night, and I had prints ready the next morning in time for the protest. We got donations on the spot to make more copies, and we now have a system in place for producing posters.

For the past week, I've been going to meetings, helping at the actual art station along with Paul from Panadelphia, and I've also learned a lot about working with a team again. This entire movement is semi-leaderless, so you have to work with other people in a way you wouldn't normally, which makes it a bit more exciting! I was also put in charge, to some degree, of design. I'm working on some new designs as I write this.

To help everyone in Philly who wishes to go down there to protest, just go to this site and download and print a poster for yourself! They're designed for 11" x 17", but they till look good on 8.5" x 11" paper!