BENJAMIN MARRA

In 2016 I provided the cover art and some interior illustrations for American Illustration 35.

This album art was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2017. The record label Numero Group invited me to create the art for this collection of Sabbath-inspired songs from obscure Heavy Metal bands in the 70s. I created the cover art as well as the interior gatefold illustration and booklet cover. We went for a black-light poster art style, using the subject matter of a post-Manson counter culture world where drug experimentation and free love had lost their life-affirming message and were replaced by abuse, crime, violence, and death, against the backdrop of an ever-present nuclear annihilation threat.

An illustration of the enigmatic cartoonist genius Steve Ditko for Vulture Magazine.

A Robocop and Showgirls mashup piece for a Paul Verhoeven themed exhibit.

An illustration in Inc. Magazine for an article about Fan Fest events based on the TV show, The Walking Dead.

Cover artwork for the Czarface album A Fistful of Peril.

Alternate cover art for the Czarface album A Fistful of Peril.

An illustration for a limited-edition print of the classic video game, Street Fighter 2.

A series of illustration about the future of cars for The New York Times.

An illustration converted into a 25-foot wide mural which appeared in a Nike store in Manhattan during the World Cup.

Cover artwork for Lil B’s 6 Kiss

Poster artwork for the engineering team 13 Detroit competing in Red Bull Creation.

Album cover art for Bricc Baby Shitro’s Nasty Dealer.

Cover art for Bricc Baby Shitro’s Nasty Dealer 2.

An illustration of rapper Mikel Knight for Gawker.com.

A series of illustrations for Victory Journal to go with an article about athletes who retire in their prime.

A series of illustrations for the amazing story of Panther Girl for Victory Journal.

Wu-Tang Clan pinup for Ed Piskor’s Hip Hop Family Tree.

Cover art for the rapper Lil B’s legendary album Black Ken.

For The New York Times Book Review, an illustration accompanying a review of Stephen King’s, The Outsider.

A four-page gatefold illustration for Rolling Stone Magazine.

Cover art for Madlib’s Medicine Show: The History of the Loop Digga.

Poster artwork for the band The Black Seeds for the Rock en Seine music festival.

Illustration Body Double screening poster.

An attempt at the impossible task of illustrating Conan’s God, Crom.

Art for a silkscreen poster of the Death Tarot card.

Art for a silkscreen poster for a screening of Deadbeat at Dawn.

A digital painting for the cover of The Naked Heroes’s album Demon the Whiskey Down.

Accompanying a review of Randy Kennedy’s novel Presidio in The New York Times Book Review.

An illustration for a Playboy Magazine fiction piece.

An illustration for an editorial in The New York Times.

A pinup for Ed Piskor’s Hip Hop Family Tree.

A series of posters for the Red Bull Music Academy festival.

Poster art for the release of new Converse shoes during New York Fashion Week.

The cover of the second issue of Mammal Magazine. Painted in watercolor.

DVD cover art for the Criterion Collection’s release of Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo.

DVD box cover art for Takeshi Kitano’s Violent Cop.

Cover art for the free comics newspaper Secret Prison.

T-shirt designs for the thrash-metal band Violator.

A poster design for a biking magazine.

Album cover artwork for the band Unpeople.

A pinup for the comic, The Urn.

Album artwork for the record label Bromance.

Illustrations for an article about college life for Radar Magazine.

Poster art for the skateboard documentary, The Motivation.

A sampling of art created for a series of trading cards of Freestyle legends from the 80s.

T-shirt design for the Flatbush Zombies.

Album artwork for Kaytranada.

Artwork for the BMX bike companies Odyssey and Sunday.

T-shirt design for Kenny Omega and the Bullet Club.

A series of illustrations for an online, choose-your-own-adventure style game called Grey Flowers.

Cover art for a zine.

Illustration for a video game review of Rockstar’s LA Noir in Nylon Guys.

A series of illustrations for Mammal Magazine.

Various illustrations done for the band The Naked Heroes.

A piece inspired by an Dave Hickey essay on Liberace and Philip K. Dick’s Man in the High Castle.

DMX pinup for Ed Piskor’s Hip Hop Family Tree.

Conan the Barbarian slaying a cyclops.

A pinup for the comic book Feeding Ground.