Dark Horse Comics is publishing The Workshop of Filthy Creation: The Art of Johnny Ace and Kali Verra—a 112-page, full-color, $19.95 volume—later this month.
The Workshop of Filthy Creations, aka Johnny Ace Studios, is responsible for for some of the most “eye-wrecking posters, fink-tastic sculptures, voodoo pin striping, and every manner of doodad, gimcrack, and unholy talisman imaginable.” Some of their work has been featured in posters for The Cramps, Electric Frankenstein, and Dick Dale.
Johnny Ace started his career as an official artist for the late custom car builder Ed “Big Daddy” Roth; together they created the hot-rod-culture icon Rat Fink. From hot-rodding, Ace moved into punk poster art, and now “surfs the cutting edge of lowbrow art and the new Kustom Kulture explosion.”
Dark Horse touts the book as “a historical look at one of the most influential art movements from the rubber-burnin’, rock and roll world of Kustom Kulture.”