C2E2 2010 re-cap

Sunday, May 9th by Haute Campe

C2E2 2010 re-cap Chicago: a city built on legendary mob rule, abattoirs and a perpetually green river.  A city whose inhabitants are notoriously big shouldered and hardened by schizophrenic weather and constant sports-related failures.  Some might call Chicago a jaded city.  You could’ve fooled us, when we set ourselves up at C2E2 at McCormick Place over the past weekend.  While the volume of attendance may’ve been modest, the enthusiasm over the material was innumerable.

While Reed Productions billed the event as “San Diego Comic-Con comes to Chicago!” you might want to see another opinion here.  Not ones to dwell on the negative though (don’t let our grotesque posters fool you, there’s always a silver lining, even if it’s a woman getting the smack down from Der Fuhrer in Hitler! – she got to meet an extremely important historical figure!), we were definitely pleased with…

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WonderCon 2010 re-cap

Thursday, May 6th by Haute Campe

WonderCon 2010 re-cap  

The original title of this entry should’ve been “How We Introduced Live Sadomasochism To Fanboys” but this is a family site after all…

Haute Campe’s presence at the WonderCon 2010, hosted by San Francisco’s Moscone Center, coincided with the online gallery’s activation (on April Fool’s Day no less) and was also the world’s introduction to the foremost poster gallery of iniquity! My, was it a sick and filthy weekend; while our presence may have been small, the stain it left on minds (and undergarments) of attendees was monumental – we shudder to think what kind of marks will be left on the fanboys, girls and in-betweens at San Diego Comic-Con International! With titles on display like “The Black Klansman”, “Wetbacks”, “Ordered to Love”, and “Female Fiends”, we were clearly out to offend everyone.

The show started off with rock n roll decadence: within the first hour of exhibiting, rock…

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Countdown to Wondercon, featuring Olga and her Syphilitic house of Shame…

Tuesday, March 30th by Tom

Countdown to Wondercon, featuring Olga and her Syphilitic house of Shame... Jack and I are watching TV in our hotel.  We got in to San Francisco yesterday to have a little mini-vacation before the big weekend, and spent the day rummaging through thrift stores and bookstores.  (Hats off to Forest Books at 16th and Valencia for actually having a handful of books with silent cinema reference that I didn’t own!  Not many could claim this achievement, as my library’s tired floorboards will attest.  You MUST visit them.  Plus, Rocker Guitars is lucky to have the brilliant Marlon behind the counter- he showed me why I couldn’t live without entering the world of boutique guitar pedals by Subdecay Studios, Homebrew Electronics, and Love Pedal.  I am a believer.  They also have a stellar selection of boutique amps- Victoria, Top Hat, Bogner, Matchless- more of every model than…

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R.I.P. GOOD TASTE…

Friday, March 26th by Jack Absinthe

Did you catch a whiff of that?  Is it the scent that brought you here?

If you haven’t already guessed, the odor in question is not from a used Arcade stall or stale popcorn cemented to the floor via smuggled-in whiskey and Coke.  Rather, it’s the magnificent funk of 60+ years of kitsch, camp, deviance, and depravity!

HAUTE CAMPE, quite certainly the world’s filthiest poster gallery alive!

SEE! rare, antique drive-in, grindhouse, B-movie, cult classic, exploitation posters, all available for purchase;

OGLE! Buxom HELLCATS — led by the Kommandant of Kitsch herself, SIOUX SINNER;

WITNESS! Swag and shenanigans to make She-Devils gag!

We have arrived.  The seats have not been sprayed down with deodorizer in an attempt to preserve the stench of vintage trash.   Enjoy your visit to Der Campe, and be sure to stay tuned to the CALENDAR for the latest stops this drive-by, drive-in caravan will…

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