Chilean illustrator Fab Ciraolo likes to re-imagine his favorite characters from childhood or pop culture in updated hipster wear. The result is a fascinating alternative universe for these fantastical characters.
What is the story behind your "Old School Heroes" series? How did Skeletor end up in a plaid suit?
These cartoons were always in my mind, when I was little I would draw all of them by hand, I just loved them, so one day it just came to me. Drawing He-Man in a flower suit, I just did it and the result was interesting and fun to me. So I keep digging in all these characters making them more fashionable, always wondering how will they look in cool suits and jackets and tight pants— hipster looks. I wasn't inventing something out of this world, just giving a little twist to things that were in my mind a long time ago.
A lot of your work incorporates space-like elements and fairy tale references as well as pop culture icons, where does your inspiration comes from?
I am like a sponge, very visual, I hate reading but love looking. My mind is full of these icons and these images. I love to mix the old with the modern, giving things that already exist a new fresh air, a new vision. I am working in these series, with Frida, Che Guevara and Dalí, it is the result of all these things that are in my mind. How would these great characters look today? This is the main idea of all of these. I mix them with all the images that are inside my head and it is like an explosion of images that I need to get out and put them together in one piece.
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