Alphaville-inspired 'Big In Japan' Art Print Style:Stretched Canvas vintage retro pulp paperback cover

vintage retro pulp paperback cover after I did the children's book version

the-sky-is-falling paperback covers

This great vintage retro pulp paperback cover connects Barrett's shining and craziness to the spectre of death and chaos behind it

This amazing vintage retro pulp paperback cover is just chock-full of bones and music

I found the perfect comic book font

Alphaville-inspired 'Big In Japan' Art Print Style:Stretched Canvas vintage retro pulp paperback coverNext to 'Forever Young' (see my poster for that too), 'Big In Japan' was a big hit for new wave band Alphaville, and it was the rage in the mid 80s. It was inspired by the real life story of a punk rock bank from the UK with that name, and from the more general idea developed in the 80s that it was possible for a band to achieve massive success in Japan but nowhere else it's come to refer to niche, odd, and inexplicable success in random markets (a