Off Campus Guide for Willamette Week

Recently Willamette Week in Portland asked me to do a whole mess of illustrations for their Off Campus student guide. Best thrift stores, hookah bars, coffee shops, cheap eats, basement shows. 

Also how to throw a keg party and not end up living in a van & working at a donut store after you graduate. Fun stuff. Huge thanks to the art department at Wweek for always giving me awesome things to draw. 

RUDN Russian Comedy for Willamette Week

Quick one for Willamette Week in Portland about RUDN, a Russian comedy show where the big jokes are about a guy who accidentally opened his yogurt while still at the grocery store. 

Read more at Willamette Week.

Fry Bread Taco Print Pre-Sale

Available Now! Limited edition Navajo Fry Bread Taco prints. These are gallery quality 11x14 giclees printed by the fine folks at Silicon Fine Art Prints here in Philadelphia. Pre-order today and pick up at next week's Shiprock Fry Bread Taco Pop-Up dinner for the discounted price of $25. Outside of Philly? The offer is also good this week ONLY, $31 including shipping. After that they'll go up to my normal price.

Shipping Options

Local Philly $25.00 USD Outside Philly, Shipped $31.00 USD

What the hell is a Fry Bread Taco, you ask?? It's a roadside / street food popular in Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado found at state fairs, trailers on Navajo reservations, and sit down restaurants. Sort of an awesome fusion of Navajo, Mexican, and state fair Tex-Mex cuisine, rarely (if ever) found in this part of the country.

Every Navajo taco starts with a base of fried dough, most commonly topped with chili beans, shredded cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion and fresh salsas. Many variations exist ranging from stewed mutton to vegetarian and dessert styles.

What the hell is Shiprock Pop-Up? It's a team effort between Marcos Espinoza (aka Fidel Gastro, founder of Side Project Jerky) whose family owns Navajo Hogan, a real-deal Fry Bread Taco place in Utah; Lucio Palazzo, chef of La Calaca Feliz, and Hawk Krall (me).

Lucio's Chicken Ropa Vieja

Marcos "Flapping" The Dough

The Pop-Up is next monday, January 21st, 9pm at 12 Steps Down in the 9th street market area. 3 different tacos plus a dessert fry bread will be available, First come first serve, no reservations or tickets just show up and eat 1 or 5 tacos. Along with the three of us Marcos's Mother will be in the kitchen making sure our tacos live up to the authentic Utah standard.

I'm sort of biased but I have to say these things are freaking delicious. The perfect mix of authentic and crazy desert drunk food - really exactly what we're going for rather than anything "re-imagined". The only thing you might call "elevated" are Lucio's mind blowingly delicious chili beans and braised meats. Pop-up goes until midnight or until we run out, whichever comes first.

Shiprock Pop-Up
Mon, Jan 21st 9pm - ?
12 Steps Down
831 Christian St (9th & Christian)
Philadelphia

T-Shirt for Delaney BBQ in Brooklyn

Recently finished this T-shirt design for Delaney BBQ in Brooklyn, AKA Briskettown. I've worked with Dan Delaney before at VendrTV, and it's awesome to see him going from video blogger to hardcore brisket perfectionist. Need to get up there and try some real soon.

Limited to a run of 500 shirts, you can pick them up at the restaurant, or online for $30 a pop.

delaneybbq.com

359 Bedford Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Izakaya Etiquette for Willamette Week

Quick one for Willamette Week in Portland on Izakaya Etiquette. Really fun to do and makes me want to go to a real Izakaya. 

Read the article over at WWeek-

Gaijin Style: Learn some basic izakaya etiquette

STUDIO CLEANOUT MEGA ART SALE

It's that time again.. cleaning out my studio and selling off piles of artwork old and new for CHEAP. I've got leftover stuff from my 1026 Show, plenty of hot dog and food paintings... ancient Philadelphia Weekly Steven Wells illos, etc etc etc. Get it now while the getting's good. If you want a bunch of stuff email me (hawkkrall @ gmail dot com) about discounts on shipping or whatever. 

Check out everything that's up for sale at  hawkkrall.net or scroll down to see some featured items-

Martin Starr as Roman from Party Down, aka the last TV show I actually laughed at. There's also one of Ron Donald, the manager who's dream was opening a "Soup or Crackers" franchise. 30 bucks. 

Wild "frankenburger" illustration I did for a "best burgers" article in Cincinnati Magazine a while back. $225

One of several from Steven Wells' On The Radar column I have available. This one was something about Americans secretly wanting to be spanked and berated by their British superiors aka Gordon Ramsay. I illustrated Wells' Philadelphia Weekly column for years so I have tons more if there's any Swells historians out there. Most under $100.

Dolph Lungren as the Punisher from the terribly awesome 1989 movie, for Shepard Fairey's Swindle Magazine. This was in the now super rare (50 bucks on ebay!) Issue #8 with Banksy stuff on the cover. 100 bucks.

Ultra obscure hawk krall hot dog art, for a Brazilian "internationally themed" hot dog restaurant that never got off the ground. $150.

From the same Brazilian hot dog job. $50

Darryl from Storage Wars! Marked down to $125 along with similar portraits of Jarrod & Dave Hester.

Punk rock ice cream! For Seattle Stranger. $39.

And TONS more. Check them out here: hawkkrall.net/store

Helmet Nachos - Cincinnati Magazine

Nachos! In a Helmet! Oozing with fake cheese and ground beef and maybe shredded chicken. For Cincinnati Magazine a few months back.

Paintings for The Wurst Bar in Ypsilanti, Michigan

Recently finished these 4 paintings for The Wurst Bar in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Really cool place with a menu of all house-made sausages including a bunch of veggie stuff. Yet another place I've worked for that I really wish was closer so I could eat the food.

Stuff looks awesome, right? I'm a big fan of anything Pimento Cheese and those Nacho Tots look crazy. All the pictures I've seen the food looks really tight and well executed, they aren't just slopping this stuff together, and looks like a great beer list going on too. 

These dudes were also great clients to work with and very patient with me juggling this along with a massive mural and about 100 other projects this summer. Go check them out if you're in the area. Oh and check out some process pics below. 

The Wurst Bar

705 West Cross Street  Ypsilanti, MI 48197
(734) 485-6720

Seattle Dog - Seattle Weekly

Seattle dog illustration (originally done for Serious Eats) featured in a recent Seattle Weekly cover story on the origins of the "Seattle Style" cream cheese hot dog. 

I'm quoted along with my buddy Garrett Morlan (also an awesome illustrator  ) who tipped me off to these things when he moved out there a few years ago.

Also interviewed for the article was Keith over at Hot Diggity about his version, which I also did the artwork for. Diggity's version takes it more in a "bagel" direction, which i always thought was sort of wrong, until I read this awesome article and realized the first guy to do this in Seattle was a bagel guy.

The funniest part is that everyone in Seattle thinks the style came from Philadelphia, assuming that we slather everything in cream cheese. Anyway the article is fantastic - and follows the history of the Seattle cream cheese dog WAY further back than I had any idea it went - to hot dog carts in the park during the grunge era - supposedly someone was hit in the face with a cream cheese dog at a Pearl Jam concert in the early 90's - and a bagel place that made hot dog roll sized "bialy sticks" and filled them with hot dogs.

From the grunge carts and bagel dudes the trend spread to vendors outside Mariners stadium - where i had assumed it started - like Joe Bernstein at Joe's Grilled Gourmet Dogs, who's been slinging them for something like 15 years. Joe may not have invented the cream cheese thing, but he's probably the first person to call them "Seattle Style".

From then it spread across the country, in waves - the most famous cream cheese slingers outside of Seattle being Biker Jim in Denver (who bought his first cart - cream cheese caulk gun and all - from a guy in Seattle) and M.A. in Alaska, who added their coca-cola onions to the mix, served on reindeer dogs and game sausages rather than standard dogs.

They've both been at it for 10-15 years, Biker Jim famously serving one to Bourdain on No Reservations a few years ago. Anyway don't take it from me, go check out the article,
probably the most exhaustive history of this newer regional hot dog style to date.

Seattle Weekly: The Seattle Dog - An Oral History

Marc Maron & Lucky Peach

In other words the best illustration job of all time. When Lucky Peach called me up I was thrilled and assumed I would be drawing hot dogs. When I found out they wanted something for a Marc Maron story - who I has just started listening to - I was amazed. 

The story is about an iron skillet Maron bought from an ex-squatter during a time in his life where he was looking for an escape from self-loathing and marijuana, the ritual of scrubbing and seasoning cast iron doing the trick. Sort of. It's a great story and hopefully my illustration does it justice.

I listened to Marc Maron's WTF podcast non-stop while working on this, and haven 't really stopped. I've been hearing about his podcast for years and just thought it was one of those things everybody talks about but it's basically the best/funniest thing in the world. Go listen to the podcast, sign up for the premium app and buy awesome things like WTF t-shirts designed by Coop at wtfpod.com.

Also, TONS of illustration in this issue - Tony Millionaire, Lauren Weinstein and an awesome piece by Tim Lane. And a great story about The Schmitter by Tom Lax of Philadelphia's Siltbreeze records. Pick it up at mcsweeneys.net.