Martyrs

Whereas the infamous Dr. Frankenstein created a solitary monster in his own image, Ghoulish Gary Pullin has redefined what an entire world’s worth of monsters would look like for a new generation of monster kids, his imagination more bold and beastly than the bottomless pit of colourful creatures that flow out of his gnarled fingers and cursed pencil. Ever since an old, unscrupulous priest gifted young Gary with his first set of markers at the tender age of six, he’s been developing his unique style – equal parts Robert Crumb, Charles Burns and Basil Gogos – that has bled into scads of mediums in and out of the genre. Despite being weaned on the mock horror of Saturday morning TV’s Hilarious House of Frightenstein, the glorious and garish gore of ’80s slasher films and the theatrical films of Vincent Price, it was at a commercial design firm where Gary first put an edge on his scythe, though the staid restrictions of the straight world eventually proved unfit for the graveness he was truly seeking. He soon found what he was looking for at Rue Morgue, the world’s best-selling horror magazine, where he acted as Art Director for the past thirteen years. FrightFest Originals launched in August 2012 to promote UK screen prints for discerning collectors. All our artwork is fully authorised and gives each artist completely free reign - we're trying to create extremely limited edition prints that are rare, exclusive and most importantly, original. Ian Rattray is a founding director of FrightFest, the UK's most successful genre festival, with 40 years of experience in the film industry. He has travelled the world seeking out those odd films that appeal to our niche market, leading him to Toronto, via Cannes, Sitges, Austin and...well... most places. Although the crotchety old git's real passion is steam trains and westerns, he really does love his stuff. Ian knows the horror genre inside out and is thoroughly enjoying picking and choosing his faves for our collection. Alex Chambers is an art collector, FrightFester, film geek and devoted screen print fan. After flying in the Royal Air Force and spending ten years whoring himself to the finance industry, he's decided to turn a hobby into a business. Everything we produce would happily appear on his wall at home - his wife wouldn't let him do this otherwise. We are for the fans, Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image onto a substrate. A roller or squeegee is moved across the screen stencil, forcing or pumping ink past the threads of the woven mesh in the open areas. Screen printing is also a stencil method of print making in which a design is imposed on a screen of silk or other fine mesh, with blank areas coated with an impermeable substance, and ink is forced through the mesh onto the printing surface. It is also known as silkscreen, seriography, and serigraph.