Matthew Skiff

Electric Zombie just dropped the new winter line, and I have to say without a doubt that it’s the best one Kyle has put out. Gone are the bright and colorful shirts of summer, and here are darker colors on mostly black shirts. You can never have enough black shirts in your closet.

There is a very different approach to the actual designs on the shirts. There is less of the real Illustrative type shirts (the type of Illustrations that EZ has had in the past) and is more focused on simplicity. I never would have thought that a clothing line with “Zombie” in the title could put out some more “mature” shirts, but Electric Zombie has.

There are also a lot of new items in the store too. There is another baseball tee, as well as a pretty awesome polo, some jeans and a bunch of awesome posters! Kyle always pics the best time to drop his new seasons, so Happy Friday the 13th! Now go pick up some Electric Zombie gear! I just spent way more than I should of…but it’s worth it.

Check out the Lookbook here!

Here is the new line from Pyknic!!! I did a ton of stuff for them this time, they are always a blast to do stuff for! I got to do a lot of different stuff than I normally get to so it was really fun!! I am particularly proud of Puggy Love, I have been waiting for this shirt to come out for what seems like forever!!!

Another shirt I’ve been waiting a while to tell you about, here is Never Sleep from the new Dance Party Massacre line! I love working with them, they always have a new and creative take on the typical horror shirt, and Alex is a pretty awesome dude too! Check out the other shirts they have for sale too, this is their 3rd year and they keep coming up with fresh stuff!

As some of you know…I’m a huge fan of The Hills, so this was a little weird and awesome…follow me on Twitter

Hello everyone! I told myself at the beginning of October that I would update my blog a ton this month with horror movie reviews, and other Halloween related things. Well, that really didn’t pan out the way I wanted it to. Long story short, I got really lazy this month and didn’t feel like doing much at all besides sleeping in late and watching horror movies. But…Halloween is tomorrow, so I thought I’d throw a big post up.

First up…movies that you should have already seen this month…

Night Of the Demons: For the longest time, I’ve been avoiding this movie. My dad bought it on DVD a long time ago, and for some reason it never seemed to spark my interest. I don’t know why, it clearly says Demons on the box, you would think it’d be something I’d be interested in. I was reading a blog post over at Dance Party Massacre that said I should check it out. I trusted Alex enough to check it out, and I was really happy I did. This movie is hilarious and creepy all at the same time. There is one scene in particular that almost ruined boobs (yes…boobs) for me. Check this one out! They are doing a remake of this movie too which I’m pretty stoked about. I also have a new DPM shirt coming out soon, so be on the lookout for that.

The Re-Animator: This is a classic and one of my favorites. Not only is that poster pretty damn cool, but does the name H.P. Lovecraft ring a bell? This movie was based off of one of his stories. The movie starts out with a pretty gruesome opening scene and it never really stops until the end. It’s filled with a lot of crazy things that happen, some of them pretty ridiculous and obscene, but it’s a classic that every horror movie fan should see.

The Evil Dead: Now, most people would say that Evil Dead 2 is a better movie, but I beg to differ. This first one is incredibly creepy and gorey, and that’s what I want in my horror movies. The atmosphere this film has is really scary and it’s a hard film to watch by yourself. I think my mom has still never seen all of this movie. The special effects in this movie are way ahead of it’s time and the make-up is awesome. Be warned though, there are some things in here that not everyone will enjoy (like a scene involving a girl and a tree…I’ll just leave it at that). If you haven’t seen this movie, you must be hiding under a rock. I have a sort of Evil Dead inspired shirt involving the Necronomicon coming out for Zombie Liquorice and I think it’s one of the best designs I’ve done.

Return of the Living Dead: This is by far my favorite zombie movie (with Dawn of the Dead as a close second). This movie was the start of the Zombie/Comedy genre and it mixes horror and comedy perfectly. Also, gone are the slow and stupid zombies of movies past, in this film the zombies are fast, smart and ruthless. There is one certain zombie in this movie that is one of the scariest creatures in any movie I have ever seen. Be sure to check out the shirt I did for The Shadow Conspiracy that is an homage to this movie.

American Werewolf in London: This is hands down the single best werewolf movie ever made (next to Teen Wolf of course…and miles better than that piece of crap The Howling movie). The special effects and makeup in this movie were lightyears ahead of it’s time, and I even believe that the Academy Awards created some kind of special effects category specifically because of this film. This movie is equal parts scary and funny. Go watch this one now!!

Night of the Creeps: I had to throw this film in the mix because it just came out on Blu-Ray. This movie has a very funny and very unique twist on the zombie genre, it throws aliens in the mix too. This movie is a cult classic and there are so many things I love about this movie that I just can’t write all of them down, so just go watch it…

Alright, now that order of business is taken care of…what else do I have to talk about…

I have a lot of cool things coming out really soon. Like I mentioned above I have shirts coming form Dance Party Massacre, Zombie Liquorice and other companies and bands. Some of the stuff I have been doing is very different that what I’m used to doing. I’m really trying to experiment with my style with every chance I get, so we will see how this all works out.

Threadless just reprinted my Dead Shred shirt, so make sure you go get one if you didn’t get a change to get it the first time

Here are some other shirts that recently just dropped, go grab em if you want…

Slime Man V.2 from Shifted Image

Monday the 16th from Mondays

Bear vs. Shark from KKBB

Captin’ Ahab from KKBB

oh and I just realized…I never made a post about this, my very good friends at Dead, Serious! just put up a brand new website and dropped their fall line….and finally…White Heat is printed!

Be sure to check out the other shirts from great artists like Sockmonkee, Derek Deal, Survival and Shantz

My good friends over at 410BC just dropped a new line as well, and although I didn’t do anything for them this time around, you still need to go check their stuff out. I love the direction they are going…

Ok, welp it’s Halloween Eve….haven’t decided if I’m going to party tonight, or save everything for tomorrow. I might just stay in and watch Halloween and pig out on candy and other junk….who knows…I’ll probably post pics of my costume sometime after Halloween. This year I’m being Teen Wolf…can’t wait!!

Have a good Halloween weekend everyone! (sorry about the grammatical errors if there are any)

RandR just dropped their Fall 09 line and I have a few shirts in there! I have been waiting for What’s For Dinner? and Slimeman to be available to buy for over a year now, so I am pretty stoked to see them finally in print. I got a package from them this weekend that included these new shirts as well as Bloodletting and Giallo and they are all amazing!

Go Grab yourself some shirts! Also, check out some of the other shirts as well. There is one by Keaton Henson that is just amazing! Oh and by the way, how it get to be the middle of October already? Time is flying by too fast now, it sucks! I’m gonna be sad once Halloween is over!

Yep…another one of these interview thingies! Go check it out! Go buy some shirts while you are at it!

It’s that time again! The Printed Mind has released another season of shirts for fall and there is a little something for everyone in this line. I did 3 shirts: Mind Tag, Socrates Coney Island and E=mTPM. Levi is always coming up with some really fun ideas and really lets the artist’s he uses go crazy. He also used some tri-blend shirts this season along with water based inks so the shirts feel super soft!

Here are some of the other awesome artists who put in some great work for this season’s batch of shirts:

Colin Gauntlett
Matt Lynn
Slohann
Greb Abbott
Mike Shantz

Go grab yourself some great t-shirts already! Go…Now I said!

New Halloween Shirts from I Came From Nothing! Go Check them out…it comes in 3 versions…and one of them is super limited so go get em!

Click the pic to read…or click here!

Well this was very nice, from the people at Buy-Tees! Totally unexpected, but awesome one the less…click here to read more!

RandR (Rise and Resist Tees) Just released a few of my shirt designs I did for them. I have been waiting a long time for these shirts to come out, they are very different than the stuff I have done in the past, and they look amazing. I’m very stoked bout them, and for a limited time you can get a free belt with your order, with designs of mine. The designs on the belt will soon be available as shirts in their store soon.

You can buy each separately by clicking on their selective pictures, or you can buy them cheaper in a pack, click here for men, and click here for women. Get them quick, they are super limited to only 100 each!!

This idea has been in the works for a very long time. A while ago Pyknic wanted to to do a Kid Vid/ Burger King Kids Club design. The first one I did wasn’t very good and they didn’t want it. But now Farewell the band got in touch with Pyknic and came up with a really killer idea for this shirt. The best part about it is that you get it when you pre-order their CD through Pyknic! Got get it, limited edition shiz right there!!

New stuff from my favorite horror themed clothing company Dance Party Massacre just dropped! It even includes a re-release of the very popular Vampire Grill that I did for them! There are some other awesome new shirts that came out too, as well as the other classic shirts DPM has always had!

DPM has also put out a couple new things as well, like some bandanas and a pretty rad necklace. I’m not a big fan of jewelry but I might have to grab this one!

Go get some Horror Goodness!

My very good friends at Dead, Serious! just dropped their summer line! I was fortunate enough to do this awesome Back to the Future shirt! Working for DS! is always fun and the rest of the shirts in the line are amazing too! 2 by Derek Deal and a new shirt by Sockmonkee and a release shirt by him, this time on a tank top! There also a nifty had the features the logo I did. Go buy some stuff…they usually sell out pretty fast!

DS! always has the best photos…

Electric Zombie’s summer line dropped over the weekend. You should all know by now that EZ’s line is one of my all time favorites, and kyle stepped it up a notch when he decided to do a whole bunch of Ninja Turtle inspired designs. Some of my favorite artists did some killer shirts for EZ, artists like Derek Deal, Horsebites, Brandon Heart, Rob Dobi, Nicolo Nimor, Kyle Crawford,  Keaton Henson and an incredible Metal Head shirt by Chad Lenjer. Not only is there TMNT shirts but there are some pretty rad WWE (WWF) shirts in the line and some super strange stuff from Keaton.

I’ve been waiting for this line for so long, I kinda knew what the line was going to deal with last year. Take a look at the Look book too, awesome photos and sick drawings from Derek Deal. EZ goes all out with their lines and it’s safe to say Kyle killed it with the summer line, I wish I had enough money for all of it, even the crazy cut and sew hoodie he just released. Anyways, go get yourself some EZ Goodness. Oh and if you get some TMNT shirts, they might come in a box designed by yours truely…

The Electric Zombie