Acme Speed Shop was born from John Mearns' passion for hot rods, customs & automotive art. With a small area in the back corner of his sign shop to work on cars, somewhere along the way the idea to make a simple shop t-shirt grew into what is now Acme Speed Shop. The website is featuring the art of many well known artists on custom designed clothing!

Ben van Berlo is an internationally acclaimed master-metalshaper from Helmond, Netherlands. He builds his own metalshaping tools and puts them to use in the creation of all kinds of metal objects for cars, motorcycles, bikes and artworks. Check out this incredibly talented innovator/creator: Sure to make you drop your jaw to the floor!

Pinstriping & Kustom Graphics Magazine is packed full of features, interviews, Hints and Tips and How To's from the best artists. Showcasing the best in UK & EU pinstriping & airbrush talent, P&KG is designed to be the definitive source of information & inspiration for both artists and their prospective customers.

Burnin' rubba from the town of Maastricht (Netherlands), Bas Canton decided to take his drawing-hobby to a more professional level and to put his graphic skills to use to make a buck or two. He specializes in automotive subject matter and is for hire if you'd like to commission him to do a fresh-looking hand-drawn 'cantoon'.

KustomGarage is an Italian portal and forum dedicated to worldwide Kustom Kulture. KustomGarage covers the gamut from Kustom Motorsikkles and Hot Hods/Kustoms to Rock 'n' Roll, Pin-Ups and Lowbrow-Art: 'Italians Do It Better!'. All writing is in Italian but luckily a picture paints a thousand words...

NewSkullRod: Danny Bakker, a.k.a. 'NewSkullRod', is an extremely talented aspiring tattoo artist and painter/graphic artist from Hilversum, Holland. If there is one person with enough ability and fresh ideas to bring old school tattoo design to a whole new level, NewSkullRod is the one. This dude rocks!

Inky Dreadfuls: The world of miniature, morbid mayhem. Pen and ink miniatures by Michael Mararian from Brooklyn. You may find him at nights working in his studio where it's safe, padded and he can't hurt himself while he is exploring the humour in the macabre.

Gerben den Heeten (Black Eye Pictures) is a freelance illustrator from Amstelveen, The Netherlands. Officially, he specialises in illustrations, comics, caricature-portraits and character-designs, but make sure to visit his 'Darkroom' for the underground stuff:
'A Dirty Mind is a Joy Forever!'.

Dominic Romney is a photographer and digital artist from Lincolnshire. His particular interests lie in the field of motor sport; drag racing, go-karting and hot rodding. Not just satisfied with the still photographs, he often digitally enhances them to produce his unique modified images.

Along with being a lowbrow artist and illustrator, Jenn Swansson is also a kindergarten teacher, a martial arts student, a palm reader, a published poet and a HUGE collector of Wolverine action figures. She enjoys cooking, reading comic books, watching old horror & kung-fu movies, and blasting rock-n-roll.

Scott Scheidly (Flounderart): 'At age four I attempted my first art project by devouring a 10 pack of crayons thus turning my diaper into a Jackson Pollack'. Living in Florida where Scott enjoys floundering about and painting pretty pictures, he still eats paste now and again just to remind himself of his roots and how he ended up like this.

Kevin Carmody's Kroosh Ink began many years ago with help from some friends in high school, starting with one t-shirt and progressing into what it is today. Kevin says that his style 'has an urban feel that is contradicted by a corporate business like feel as well'. So kick back, click away and enjoy Kroosh Ink.

K.A.R.S. -Kustom and Rod Shop. Tristan and Angelica run their 'Old School' speedshop from the town of Landgraaf, Holland with their main objective in building high quality traditional rods, kustoms and choppers. If you need some serious metalwork done, K.A.R.S. is where to go.

Drawn of the Dead, the artwork of Brian J. Orlowski. While permanently on vacation in Happy Hollow Sanatorium in Northern New Jersey, Brian is allowed to do artwork solely under strict supervision and is never left alone with pen, pencil, or brush for fear of hurting himself or others.

Born in Italy, raised in Germany and now from Florida ("The Mecca of Denial"), Francesco LoCastro is an amalgamation of European sensibility and American openness. No subject is unfit for depiction on his canvases. He's, simply put, quite comfortable with the task of holding up the mirror to the face of society one painting at a time.

Kelly Moore is a Self Taught Artist currently living in Santa Fe, New Mexico who has no formal training or education in art. His Original, Expressive work has been referred to as Outsider Art, Art Brut, Raw Art and Visionary Art. His intuitive style and technique reflects a raw, primitive quality that is frequently juxtaposed with a startling innocence.

Matt Kotch was born in Southern California in 1967 and his grades took a back seat to filling notebooks with pictures of aliens, zombies and wear wolves. Now often incorporating "Fish Puzzles" and Tikis in many of his acrylic paintings in a semi-celebration of his brother's short but free-spirit lifestyle on Oahu.

Dimitrov van der Weijden's Cyboflexium: This artist from Amsterdam combines spraycans, airbrush, oils, acrylics and digital techniques to create his "painted worlds where you can find dreamy landscapes, digitalized/cloned creatures, beauty, darkness..."

Dang! Industries.com is an online gallery and source for the artwork of Marcus Evans. Very strong artwork and a distinctive style.

'Cosmic Drifter' Darrel Bowen specializes in character, prop, and environmental designs for pre-production television animation and surrounding multi-media including internet, video, publishing, interactive gaming and toys.

Graphic designer, illustrator and freelance artist Chris Davis, also known as 'ArtSkull', combines lowbrow attitude and retro style with a love of horror, cult and sci-fi movies to create his distinctive computer generated designs.

Interested in the circus sideshow and 'seedy entertainments of all kinds', R. Hutcheson ('Bob' for friends) creates cartoons and paintings that'll make you chuckle as he packs his art with intelligent humor.

Artist/designer Jim Koch started out pasting-up his own underground magazines. Later he found himself doing designs for many high profile apparel-corporations that were not always giving credit where credit was due... Jim now runs his own design firm. You may not know his name, but I bet you know some of his stuff when you see it!

DBBP is short for "Duckman's Bitchin' Biker Page" and bitchin' it is.
This is Mark 'Duckman' van der Kwaak's website. Make sure you check out his Cad-Bikes 3D-section.

'Broadband Fullscreen Hoving'
Lowbrow paintings, weird comics and sick Flash-cartoons right dab smack in your face.

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