French artist Antoine Bernhart will be best known within the Rock'n'Roll scene for his legendary Tall Boys skull and other pieces of art he designed, such as the Rattlers' rattlesnake, the sleeve for Nervous Record's 'Zorch Factor 3' LP, the Elvis on Ace Record's 'Rockabilly Shakeout' LP or the gig-posters he did for the Vibes to name a few. I found one of his pieces also used for a Cramps LP-bootleg in the 90s. It actually, but not surprisingly, fitted very well.
But like every artist Bernhart's output is much larger and versatile than these examples might suggest. Berlin bases gallery and publishing company Bongout released a collection of his art in 2008. It's the 224 pages book 'Skull Skool Royal". It includes small prints of his record-cover and poster works and tons and tons of unseen pieces where Sex, Death, Monsters, Nazis and Rockers rule the world. Partly disturbing, partly weird, partly brilliant. Definitely unique. Get your copy: SICK SICK SICK
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