Rocket Tours: The Art of Steve Thomas
I’d like to think Steve Thomas comes off as a professional well-known artist who has worked on many recognizable works of the past, but had decided to “come down to our level” to peddle his downtime works on a simple blog. With most commercial artists, the offbeat personal works are probably better than anything he’s ever made serious money on. My backstory is all speculation though. Steve Thomas is such a common name, my google fu knows not how to narrow down these Steve Thomas biographies. Every artist instance of Steve Thomas says hes died 9 to 120 years ago. Rapper C-Murder of TRU apparently killed them all.
Steve Thomas makes posters. Really good posters. His style reminds me of those old generic Spanish/French/Latin framed quasi-advertisement oil posters that say random words like “Fentaru!” and “Irrradio!” that don’t make much sense to Americans, but “one level above dive bar” bars think it’s classy to keep them around. These posters types are somewhat classy until you end up at a craft store that actually sells them and you come to learn you can pick up seven prints of this nonsense for a dollar.
He has some neatness about beer, Star Wars, Tron, and The Beatles, but his great stuff is his Arcade Game Propaganda collection. I really like this guy because he functions on subtle references. It’s up to the audience to either appreciate the standalone art or understand what he’s talking about. It’s mature. Throwing a big ‘ol “Galaga” logo in the corner takes away from the art like industry does to ruin just about every gaming t-shirt for the past ten years.
Many of these artworks are purchasable for suitable framing. They would sit well with the Shmopera prints.
