Alphaville-inspired 'Big In Japan' Art Print Style:Stretched Canvas As I often do making

As I often do making these posters

and I went with a very literal vintage retro pulp paperback cover for it - here's a guy who's totally high and dry

' and the badass attitude is perfectly congruent

This amazing vintage retro pulp paperback cover is just chock-full of bones and music

Alphaville-inspired 'Big In Japan' Art Print Style:Stretched Canvas As I often do makingNext to 'Forever Young' (see my poster for that too), 'Big In Japan' was a big hit for new wave band Alphaville, and it was the rage in the mid 80s. It was inspired by the real life story of a punk rock bank from the UK with that name, and from the more general idea developed in the 80s that it was possible for a band to achieve massive success in Japan but nowhere else it's come to refer to niche, odd, and inexplicable success in random markets (a