Here are the final versions of my design for MARYLAND DEATHFEST XIII. These will be printed at an edition of 250, half of which will be in color and half in black and white. Pre orders for this will be available on their site shortly. 

GHOUL/MANIAXE!!! shirt design

Along with pre orders for the album, this MANIAXE!!! shirt will be available at Tankcrimes starting tomorrow afternoon. This design the last page of the comic, and happens to be one of my favorites. More details about the edition i will be having made of the comics to come in the near future!

First look at the GHOUL comic / Hand bound edition to be made!

Here is one of the panels from the MANIAXE! comic that will be included in the first 1000 copies of the album. The album will include both comics, but i will be having screen prints of just the MANIAXE pages made without the comic for Pleasant Screams/Forbidden Crypts, to be hand bound and editioned. More details about this project along with other previews of some of the panels to come in the near future!

GHOUL comic book!

                                                  (MANIAXE cover art by Jake Karns)

Tankcrimes has recently announced that they will be including a comic book that i illustrated to GHOUL lyrics in the first ever pressing if the legendary album MANIAXE on vinyl. The comic consists of two separate comics, one of the lyrics to Pleasant screams/Forbidden crypts that i did in 2009, and one of the lyrics to the title track MANIAXE that i did late last year. Both songs are two of my favorites off the album, not to mention the homage to PILEDRIVER that ghoul pays in the remastered/re-release of the album in the intro to Pleasant screams. Ill be posting some of the work from the new comic along with detail photos closer to the release date. I am incredibly honored to have any kind of involvement with my favorite album by one of my favorite bands, and it is interesting to have the two comics together and see how my work has changed over the past 4 years.

Autographed KYLESA screen prints now available

Limited edition of 7 from the edition of the 100 that i made for KYLESA for their summer tour with GHOUL and GWAR, signed by the entire band. 15" x 22" white ink on black stonehenge paper screen prints. I had the band sign these when i drove down to the Jacksonville date of the tour, which was also my first time seeing  GWAR. Needless to say, considering the copious amounts of fake blood that both GWAR and ghoul showered the crowd with, it's a miracle that these prints made it back unstained. Now up on my webstore: http://lucasruggieriillustration.bigcartel.com/