SDCC 2022 Exclusive Prints by Kevin Tong

Kevin Tong will be at San Diego Comic-Con setting up shop at booth #933 with a bunch of really cool new SDCC 2022 Exclusive Prints! First up, Kevin will be releasing three beautiful new SDCC 2022 Exclusive 9”x12” Letterpress Prints. “Orbital Decay”, “Nymph” and “Wendigo” are each limited to just 60 pieces.

Check out the Comic-Con 2022 Exclusive “Arecibo”, which is an 18”x24” signed and numbered fine art giclee print. It’s limited to just 40 pieces! As Tong explained, “When the Arecibo Radio Telescope collapsed a few years back, a small part of me collapsed too. In addition to bringing to humanity vast troves of information about the cosmos, it was a great set piece for films like Goldeneye, Contact, and The X-Files. There are efforts to try to rebuild it and the valuable data it has collected since the 1960s was saved by an amazing team of people at the University of Texas. Hopefully in the future, it will continue to have a use, even if it's only for two people.”

Tong will also be releasing a new Screen Print Edition of his Drive movie poster, which will be available for the very first time at SDCC. As Kevin explained, “The colors and metallic inks came out beautifully. It's fitting to be debuting this poster at San Diego Comic-Con because I always see people dressed in Drive cosplay as if the Driver was a hero to emulate. He’s not meant to be an aspirational hero, but rather the movie deconstructs what our notion of a “real hero” is. The gruesome violence and lack of humanity required to defeat “bad guys” is shown and anyone the Driver is connected to, despite their innocence, gets injured, threatened, and killed. His intentions might be good, but he can’t change his nature.” 

“This theme is repeated over and over again in the stories about the scorpion and the frog as well as the bit about sharks. He’s not a hero and he was never supposed to be. I wanted my poster to be emulate that. Lots of Drive art shows the Driver more prominently. I wanted to make him look more questionable and like his world was eternally separate from the shimmering world of good people like Irene and Benicio.” – Kevin Tong