Hey guys, how we all doing? I am tired because I had the temerity to go to a gig last night while being 46 and apparently that leaves me exhausted the next day. Aging is such a treat!

Anyway, the reason for this email is: the lovely Ken Harman of Spoke Art, Coda and Hashimoto Gallery is having an auction of sold out prints from the Spoke Art archive with shares of proceeds going to The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and Red Cross.

There’s loads of my stuff in there including all my Lost in Translation posters, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Throne of Blood, Cowboy Bebop, Akira and more. Some of the auctions finish TONIGHT and the rest on Sunday 8/30. There’s also loads more (245 lots all in) featuring work by Rory Kurtz, Oliver Barrett, Felicia Chao, Murugiah, Doaly, Tracy Ching and Izzy, whose Land Before Time is going for silly money because it’s great.

You can find the auction here

You can find my stuff specifically here

ANTS?

I’m going to try and do a little more with this substack going forwards (other than just emails saying ‘i have a print for sale’), because all the social platforms have died a death and you’re probably broadly interested in me and my art in order to subscribe.

Anyhow, about once a year on average I get absolutely obsessed with a song and can’t listen to anything else (hello ADHD hyper-focus)! Previous hits include Sunshine State by Fortitude Valley and Starburned and Unkissed by Caroline Polachek, and this year it’s Ants in My Room by professional handsome man Carter Vail. I can’t really explain why it’s gotten jammed in my head other than it sounding like a mix of Passion Pit and LCD Soundsystem.

Vail has a huge following for his short, often weirdly hilarious micro-songs but this pivot into a proper song length song has me excited to see what he does next (although I hope he also carries on making 30 second long jams about Frog Kings, weirdos at sleepovers and bots becoming friends).

Anyway, now it’s in your head too and my work here is done. I’m back to the drawing board to get on with my first MCU poster in five years. It’s for the best film the MCU has delivered and it should be available soon. If you feel compelled, leave a note under this post with your recent earworms and I can add them to the playlist. Youtube has just started autoplaying Tom Petty and friends doing While My Guitar Gently Weeps at the Rock and Roll Hall of fame and Prince shows up halfway through and absolutely SHREDS, so i’m going to go watch that again. You should too…

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There’s more available than are in the photo obviously. Thank you as ever for your support x

Oh, you read down this far? That’s cool - thank you.

Here’s some secret knowledge as a reward - my next gig poster is filled with all The Colors and The Shapes and will be out later this month. The one after that I just started and is legitimately the most excited I’ve ever been about a gig poster - but I haven’t finished it yet so I don’t want to jinx it. It is a Once In A Lifetime big deal. I’m making some DUNC art which you’ll be able to see later in the year and I just started on Totoro for Spoke Art with the goal of releasing at SDCC like the last couple of years. Lets see if I hit that deadline!

Anything else? Well you should all be watching Widows Bay on AppleTV because it’s the best show this year and a scene with a calendar in episode one made me howl with laughter.

That’s all I got - thanks for reading this far.

Mx.

Anyway, something more fun than the weather: No Doubt are midway through their Las Veags Sphere residency, and each week of shows has their own poster. I was lucky enough to make posters for weeks two and three and i’ll be putting my copies on sale NEXT TUESDAY (6/2).

There are regular and foil versions of each weeks poster, and will be priced at $75 and $125 each (plus shipping/tax). Yes, I know that’s a mark-up on their original price, but they’re going for more on eBay and a) I want to discourage instant flipping, and b) this is how I get the majority of a fee for jobs like these.

There’s a limit of one of each print per person (so yes, you can get one of each). Any multiple orders will be cancelled. Any multiple orders to the same address will be cancelled. Anyone who orders one and then lists it on eBay before it arrives will be cancelled and blacklisted from future sales. I want as many of these to end up with people who want them on their walls!

They will be available from matttaylordraws.bigcartel.com

That’s all for now folks. Another gig poster next month and one in June too, but that’s a post for another day…

Mx

https://collectionzz.com/products/no-doubt-sphere-may-13-15-16-2026-artist-proof-foil

You’re still here? Okay. Well there’s more No Doubt from me on the way and I’ll have signed copies of these available from my website in a few weeks too but not many, so if you want one go now. NOW!

That’s all - a proper email about all this in a couple weeks when the next thing arrives…

M x

I think when we all saw Sinners it was pretty clear that scene was the one which stood out above all others, but it still took me the best part of a year to figure out how to actually depict it. If I’m honest in an ideal world this poster would be twice the width it is and feature even more of the amazing background details that filled the IMAX frame, but there’s a limit to what’s practically achievable (although seeing Tyler Stouts superb Frankenstein piece for Coda gave me pause). Anyhow, this here is where we landed and I’m really pleased with it.

These will be going on sale next week from Spoke Art, and I’ll send a reminder when they go live. You can follow them on instagram here. I’ll have AP copies later in the year, but a lot of friends and fam have already made noises about this one so I might not have many copies - if you want one I’d recommend trying to get one from Spoke.

That’s all I got for today, I’m making a bunch more art but I can’t share it quite yet… Unitil then, take care and take care of each other

M x

There is one more sale this year and it’s happening NOW

In an attempt to clear the decks, MYSTERY TUBES are now for available! Each one is $100 (plus shipping and taxes where applicable) and will be filled with at least three posters (maybe more) plus some other things that have accumulated in the past few years. However you cut it, there’s at least $200-300 worth of stuff in each tube so it’s a good deal if nothing else!

You can find the shop at matttaylordraws.bigcartel.com

Just as a fair warning - due to shipping congestion and the amount of orders we’re working through we can’t guarantee delivery pre-Christmas, so bear that in mind if you’re ordering as a gift

Here’s a little graphic with some of the things that will be in the tubes. There’s more but I ran out of room.

That’s all for now - I’ll probably send out one last email before the end of the year filled with things I enjoyed, but otherwise I’ll see you all in 2026!

Mx

THING ONE: KPOP DEMON HUNTERS from Spoke ART

THING TWO: AP copies of all my stuff from this year (LOST IN TRANSLATION, PRINCESS MONONOKE, GODZILLA, THE TRUMAN SHOW, SPEED RACER) from my webshop

There will be MYSTERY TUBES on Monday too but i’ll send another email then (and then I promise, no more emails til the end of the year).

I’ve watched KPDH more than any other movie this year. Partly because i have two daughters who love it, but crucially because it is also a very good movie. Bright, colorful, emotional and an absolute banger of a soundtrack that I am somehow not sick of yet. I went full technicolor for this one - and it’s printed on golden paper (obviously). There’s also a variant that was secretly available earlier this week which is gold tones on holofoil paper which will look equally bold, but the technicolor one is where it’s at for me.

I enjoyed making it, i hope you enjoy looking at it. Fair warning, I wont get a huge number of AP copies for this, and a lot of what I will get have already been earmarked by friends so if you want this one, I’d try and get it from Spoke.

That’s all I got for today. But as a thank you for making it to the end of this email, here’s an instagram account that kept showing up on my explore page and I’m now obsessed with. Do you like banging European dance music? Do you like conveyor belts? Then boy do I have the page for you.

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Good news - tariff issues have all been resolved! So that means I’m having my last sales of the year and they handily coincide with Black Friday where everyone is planning on spending all their money anyway!

The first sale will be on Friday 11/28 at 6pm UK / 1pm Eastern / 12pm Central / 10am Pacific. We’ll have: Speed Racer, Lost in Translation, Princess Mononoke, The Truman Show and Godzilla '54 up for grabs.

The second sale will be on Monday 12/1 at 6pm UK / 1pm Eastern / 12pm Central / 10am Pacific, and will be for… Mystery Tubes! There’s a whole mix of stuff from the last couple of years - Dune, Eternal Sunshine, Into the Spider-verse, Point Break, Cowboy Bebop, Jack White, Mastodon, Wu Tang, Scott Pilgrim, Godzilla, Spider-man, Fight Club, Muppets, The Life Aquatic and more. Tubes will be priced at $100 + shipping (and taxes where applicable) and will contain at least 3 prints (more if there are 18x24 in there).

You can find everything over at matttaylordraws.bigcartel.com

Welcome to the new subscribers, I’m sure you’re mostly here to find out how to buy the Jack White show posters for this week’s Seattle gigs.

They will be on sale ONE WEEK FROM TODAY, Wednesday May 28th at 6PM UK / 1PM ET / 12PM CT / 10AM PT from matttaylordraws.bigcartel.com

There will be copies of night one and night two, along with a small number of uncut sheets with both nights (which will be pricy because there’s not many of them). I’m still working out pricing - they’ll be a little bit more than retail to avoid resellers buying them to flip.

Thanks as ever for the support - times are tough so I appreciate every one of you that spend some of your hard earned on my art for your walls.

M x

ON SALE NOW - MATTTAYLORDRAWS.BIGCARTEL.COM

WELL IN BETTER NEWS… I finally have the Paul McCartney prints in hand after a few false starts, which means there’s going to be a sale next week. Here’s the important information, then I’ll ramble on after

• On sale Wednesday 2/19/25 at 4pm UK / 11am ET / 10am CT / 8am PT from matttaylordraws.bigcartel.com

• £75 GBP each + shipping and taxes where applicable.

• A2 Litho prints (42 x 59.4cm / 16.5 x 23.4in) on heavy stock.

• There will be equal numbers of Manchester and London prints available.

• Strictly one poster per person - multiple orders or multiple orders to the same address will be cancelled.

• All sales are final.

• Please allow 28 days for shipping.

• No shipping to the EU unfortunately.

• PLEASE ORDER CAREFULLY. There aren’t a lot of copies of each, and if you order the wrong version I can’t guarantee I’ll be able to do anything other than refund it.

OKAY, I think thats everything important. To answer a few thoughts I know you’ll be having…

• Yes, i know they’re more than retail at the show. The reason for this is twofold - firstly, they’re selling for a lot on eBay, and I want to discourage flippers. Secondly, this is how artists get paid for jobs like this - selling prints means that we get paid!

• I’m sure you want to get one for yourself AND one for your friend who was at the show but doesn’t own a computer/partner who doesn’t live with you and you need one for each house/absent child who is a lifelong McCartney fan/etc, but it’s one per household - there are a limited number available and I want as many people as possible to get one.

• I’m genuinely sorry about the lack of EU shipping - unfortunately changes in EU regs post-brexit makes it real complicated for a small trader like me.

I think that’s everything else! Set your alarms, I’ll send another email when they go on sale.

You wan’t something else? Okay, there’s a new Deafheaven song and it is great.

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Congratulations on surviving January (which feels like it has been six months long), why don’t you treat yourself with a new piece of art for your walls. No one wants to go outside if they can help it so make your cocoon nice and colorful!

The shop reopens THIS THURSDAY 1/30 at 5pm UK / 12pm ET / 11am CT / 9am PT

You can buy Scott Pilgrim, Godzilla, Godzilla vs. Hedorah and The Life Aquatic, as well as all the fun stuff that’s there already (including Cowboy Bebop, Dune pt 2, Romeo and Juliet and Point Break which people seem to have been paying way over the odds on eBay). Check it out now if you like.

Still no Paul McCartney news - sorry! I’m still waiting for my copies to come in - hopefully soon, and i’ll let you know when they do. Hope you’re all taking care of yourselves and watching the new series of Severance on Appletv+.

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Izzy (my girlfriend - if you don’t follow her, you can do that here), suggested we should send out a newsletter with stuff we liked this year - places, cultute, things, etc - as a reminder that the year wasn’t *all* bad. So that’s what this is. No art (okay maybe some art at the end), but feel free to tap out if that’s all you’re interested in. Otherwise, READ ON.

Movies!

Big caveat - there’s a whole bunch that I haven’t seen yet. I like Brett Goldstein and Nish Kumar’s approach of doing their review of the year the following June so they can make sure they see everything from 2025, but in lieu of that here’s some films that were great.

Honestly, probably the best movie I saw in 2024 was the one I saw on new years day. The Taste of Things is a gorgeous treatise on longing, unrequited love, friendship and food. Good lord the food. The opening twenty minutes is the preparation and consumption of a feast and whatever you do, don’t see this movie on an empty stomach. It’s a beautiful film. By comparison, Monkey Man was a grimy, bloody punch in the face and I loved it. Admittedly some of it I loved through the gaps in my fingers but still. I will go to bat for the soundtrack of Challengers more than the movie, but maybe that’s enough. Alien Romulus was a greatest hit/remix of the franchise, but maybe the most fun I had in the theatre this year. Rebel Ridge was far and away the best movie that I wish had had a theatrical release - a muscular, propulsive non-lethal First Blood that will in future be used to explain why Aaron Pierre is a superstar. Paddington in Peru was fun, but not quite up to the standards of the other two, Inside Out 2 had it’s moments but left me a little flat, but did anyone else have a goose telling a robot it loved it on their bingo cards for things that would make them cry in 2024? If so, watch The Wild Robot and complete that row.

TV!

You don’t need me to tell you about Shogun, Industry, or The Bear. Or Only Murders in the Building, Shrinking, Fallout or The Penguin. But did you watch Sugar on Apple tv+? It’s almost impossible to talk about it without spoiling some of the fun, so the best I can say is that it stars Colin Farrell as a Hollywood noir obsessed PI, investigating a missing person in one of the best performances of the year (he’ll get all the plaudits for The Penguin but this is by far the better role). The show takes a really big swing in it’s final third and I am absolutely here for it, but it might be too much for some. Those people are wrong, but there’s no accounting for taste. Speaking of Apple tv+, it also put out my other favorite show of the summer Bad Monkey. Bad Monkey had a lot going against it - starring Vince Vaughn, being set in Florida - but it’s shaggy dog tale of con men, useless cops and femme fatales brought to mind a more lackadaisical take on Elmore Leonard or Inherent Vice - and to top it off featured a soundtrack made up almost entirely of great Tom Petty covers. I think both shows have been renewed for second seasons so catch up before they come back.

I also enjoyed Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. I know it’s rubbish. I’m sorry.

Sounds!

I made a playlist. Here are the links for Apple Music and Spotify. My taste in music seems as diverse as ever (and by diverse I mean pop music, sad girls with guitars, bands who sound like they recorded inside of a bin and the odd bit of mainstream hip hop).

Here it is on Apple Music

And here it is on Spotify if you absolutely insist on using Spotify despite it’s terrible user experience and unintuitive layout and inflicting Unwrapped upon us.

I could have made my best of the year just from tracks off AG Cook’s Britpop and Charli XCX’s Brat, which I think says it all. But I spent a lof of time with Where I’ve Been Isn’t Where I’m Going by Shaboozey, Negative Spaces by Poppy, Chromakopia by Tyler The Creator, Pandora by Wisp and It’s Sorted by Cheekface. Probably the best gig was Jack White in a tiny tiny venue at the end of an incredibly bad month.

Reads!

I got back into books in a big way! Unfortunately because I’m way behind the curve, most of these aren’t from this year, but I enjoyed them anyway and this is my list. I have been encouraging everyone I know to read Wellness by Nathan Hill and I’m going to encourage you to do the same (with the caveat that if your significant relationship is a bit wobbly maybe give it a miss). It’s a big expansive novel about love and middle age and Chicago in the late 90s and social media algorithms and wellness cults and I genuinely couldn’t put it down. Also in the couldn’t-put-it-down category was Bewilderment by Richard Powers which had shades of Flowers for Algernon but also tries to address the bigger issues of ‘what is wrong with people’. It doesn’t quite scale the giddy heights of his last outing The Overstory (read that too), but worth your time. The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff is not by any stretch of the imagination a good time in it’s tale of a runaway girl lost in the woods in the early days of european settlement in America and all the terrible things that befall her. However its prose is lyrical and expansive and encapsulating so if you can bear awful things happening to someone who really doesn’t deserve it, you’ll be rewarded with some beautiful writing.

Quick shout out to some great comics too: Birds of Prey from DC by Kelly Thompson and a cast of others is absolutely the most fun book I’m reading regularly. Ideally i would love it if Leonardo Romero could draw every issue, but the rotating art team is strong and varied enough that it doesn’t matter too much. I caught up on Tom King and Bilquis Evely’s Supergirl - Princess of Tomorrow, and Ram V and Filipe Andrade’s Rare Flavors both in trade and both worth your time too. OH! And Somna from Becky Cloonan and Tula Lotay, which also fulfils the same space as The Vaster Wilds in terms of depressingly terrible things happening to women, but being presented beautifuly (but this time with witchcraftery and demonic possession!)

Everything Else!

So much else - I had a great celeraic beignet last week which was one of the best thing’s i’ve eaten all year. Ramen at Koya in Soho. Coffee from Komodo and cinnamon buns from Loam in Brighton. Comics from Dave’s Comics also in Brighton. The Set (also in Brighton - i live here so there’s a bias in my recommendations) which served up two amazing tasting menus, one of which included a Wagyu cheeseburger that I would be dead from eating if they sold it separately. Every receipe I’ve cooked from Tim Anderson’s cookbooks (Hokkaido was the new book out this year but Your Home Izakaya is the one I cook from the most). MATTY MATHESON’S COOKBOOK, oh my days. Go buy yourself a painting from Ben Newman - they’re affordable and beautiful. I got a tattoo of a spooky rat from Loverat. Life drawing with Draw Brighton. It’s a bit bougie, but FoxFiber fleece sweatshirts from Dana Lee Brown. I’m sure there was other stuff I enjoyed but that’s all for now.

I think that’s just about enough from me. Thank you for all the support this year - the shop will be open again in January with Scott Pilgrim, Life Aquatic and Godzilla prints. I’ll shout about it before obviously, but seeing as you read to the end of the newsletter you find out early. Have a festive holiday season if you celebrate that, otherwise have an brilliant December, and to quote Brett Goldstein quoting Bill and Ted, now more than ever, be excellent to each other

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This one will be out in 2025 I promise.

That’s all I got x

And hey, here’s another one - hopefully I haven’t over-saturated myself, but I’m really quite happy with this one too.

Important information first: this poster will be on sale tomorrow (11/22) at 6pm UK / 1pm ET / 12pm CT / 10am PT from Moor Art. This whole paragraph here is the link. Now some art (which is also a link):

Important information achieved, now for some backstory! The idea of Truman climbing out of the tv is a remix of one I had fifteen years ago for an editorial spot in Little White Lies magazine. I think I did as good a job as I could back then, but I always wanted to have another go at it as the artist I am now. My likenesses have definitely gotten better.

I’m super thankful to James at Moor Art for letting me have another go at this poster and it feels like a good one to wrap the year up with. Except there might be one more to come…

That’s all folks, back to doom scrolling! Take care and be excellent to each other.