Artists I Like: Alexi Gorboot

Alexi Gorboot (Алексей Горбут) is an artists I know almost nothing about other than seeing his work on Instagram. It's van art ready-made for a blacklight and done up in a comic book style I really adore. He doesn't appear to have a website, so his main point of contact is socials like Insta and Facebook.

He has an intentionally classic-looking comic book art style with flat, vivid colors in the vein of someone like Skinner or Jason Galea. But I think his primary inspiration is simply old comic books. The colors in old comics are famously very flat and vivid (though faded and halftoned, depending on the era). I think Alexi is consciously emulating that vibe. I dig it.