We're pleased to present the cover for our upcoming 5th edition of Off the Wookie.
Art by Dabs & Myla and Surge
On A Sunday Afternoon - Live Painting by OtW Cover Artists Dabs & Myla and Surge
This Sunday, March 7, 33 Third Gallery will be sponsoring a live painting exposition at Mid-City Arts in L.A.
Featured artists will include Dabs & Myla and Surge who are doing the cover art for Off the Wookie 5.
The other artists taking part:
BooksIIII (Miami)
Jim Darling (Los Angeles)
Kofie (Los Angeles)
Mear (Los Angeles)
Retna (Los Angeles)
Risk (Los Angeles)
Slow (Miami)
Typoe (Maimi)
The whole thing takes place from 12-5.
An Ice Cream Man's Just Deserts
Few people can say they have driven a 25-year-old ice cream truck thousands of miles across continents. As luck would have it, I tracked two of them down for Off the Wookie. John and Dan Clemens, broth- ers now living in Seattle, decided a few years back to participate in the Plymouth/ Dakar Challenge, a journey from Plymouth, England to Banjul, Gambia. Not only did they complete the challenge, they kept the budget oftheir vehicle, a 1971 Bedford ice cream truck, to a few hundred British pounds and did almost all of the work to prepare the truck for the 3,800 mile trip through France, Spain, Morocco, Maurita- nia, and Senegal.
A Guardian of the Real
In Mexico City people know the name, “Super Barrio.” Equal parts political activist, folk legend and bona fide luchador, this masked avenger of the poor was the first great banner bearer of what has become a veritable subculture: that of the real life superhero. Send the term through Google, and you’ll come across galleries, networks and Myspace pages devoted to everyday citizens who adopt costumed identities in their quest to make our world a better place. Super Barrio, Captain Jackson, Citizen Prime: These are a few of the names that ring out in contemporary superheroism.
