Sophisticates and Weirdos

Sophisticates And Weirdos is 122 pages of sketches, scribbles and thumbnails from Robert Jim nez. You'll find plenty of apes, tikis, monsters and more. Some, you may recognize from completed paintings...Others, are ideas that were left to ferment in a studio drawer...or on a page from a forgotten sketch book.Robert's work has appeared on album covers, in publications such as THE THING: ARTBOOK, Tiki Magazine and Pinstriping & Kustom Graphics Magazine, and has shown in galleries including Disneyland's Wonderground, Harold Golen, M Modern, Creature Features, and Bear & Bird among others.You can also see Robert's work in trading card sets for Topps, Cryptozoic, and Upper Deck on licenses such as Garbage Pail Kids, Wacky Packages, Mars Attacks, Star Wars, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Rick And Morty, Ghostbusters, Adventure Time and more. Most notably, Robert worked on 8 paintings for the Upper Deck trading card set FIREFLY THE 'VERSE and 9 paintings for the upcoming WACKY PACKAGES GO TO THE MOVIES by Topps.Robert is also the author and illustrator of the books LAST CALL AT TIKILANDIA, STRANGEWISE NO.9 and CHIMPS & TIKIS AND RAVEN-HAIRED BEAUTIES: AN ADULT COLORING BOOK, NOSFERATU'S CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK and WEIRD-ASS FACES VOL.1.