Vicious Intent: The Rock 'n' Roll Art and Exploitation of Stainboy Reinel
Punk rock is Florida-based poster artist Reinel’s muse, but his influences are the comics via movie-poster art. He draws heavily black-outlined figures and fills them in with pure hues shaded by big dots that, of course, recall the color comics in old Sunday newspapers. He riffs on hyperdynamic hot-rod art, such as Ed “Big Daddy” Roth’s, that copped from Disney’s and Warners’ funny-animal cartoons (Reinel swipes from those, too). He prefers electric color schemes out of 1960s psychedelia; the contents page herein does a visual wah-wah as neat as any Victor Moscoso ever brought off (see Moscoso’s Sex, Rock & Optical Illusions, 2006). He loves pneumatic women of the Jane Russell–Jayne Mansfield type but also svelter models such as those who graced Milton Caniff’s Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon. And then there’s his fascination with crassly sexy blaxploitation imagery; a band called Nashville Pussy inspired him to the most egregious example: legs are spread. Withal, he never loses an in-your-face but good-timin’ sense of humor, way more southern than Noo Yawk—sweet ’n’ nasty. --Ray Olson