Originally published at: How Patrick Nagel prints (and crude imitations) came to haunt America's hair salons | Boing Boing
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Also a must-have interior design element for 1980s douchebags. A Nagel in a character’s home has long been cultural shorthand for that.
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Haunt the hair salons? There were very low-res scans of Nagel’s prints all over what would soon evolve to be the Internet.
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Comedy Central ran a cartoon titled “Moonbeam City”, which was a ridiculous cop comedy done in Nagel’s style.
Great cast, good jokes, amazing artwork, so of course they dropped it after one season.
EDIT: it’s available on HBO MAX right now, for those who partake.
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Nagel posters were also de rigueur in cishet male college dorm rooms in the mid- to late-1980s.
*Duran Duran has entered the chat.
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I seem to remember that Nagel posters were more popular in the girls dorm due to the Duran Duran connection. My recollection of guys dorm posters were beer ads (specifically Spuds McKenzie) and the obligatory Lamborghini Countach poster.
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Saw the vid when it first dropped; had a conversation with my chargie about it, then moved on.
The Rio album definitely helped Nagle ‘go viral’ in a pre-internet world.
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So I’m guessing he died not leaving an estate of any kind so these images became available for the public for the taking? After all once you die you have no way to complain that your art has been plagiarized.
No.
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And from Duran Duran to Phonogram:
Art by Jamie McKelvie
The comic is about music, so this is an intentional riff. In fact, every edition of the comic had a cover inspired by a different album cover.
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