This year we have the great honor of featuring the design of a talented artist like Irene Bone Crusher for our poster.
Exploitation cinema is the leitmotif our second edition, so we needed an image that evoked a gritty and provocative fanzine. An image with echoes of 70s double-feature grindhouse posters, with Russ Meyer running wild alongside Tura Satana.
Of course, we couldn’t leave out our nod to George A. Romero, and since Irene is such a blackwork specialist, she’s managed to merge all these elements into an aesthetic inspired by the Bijou Theather and the wildest B-movies, as seen in Invasion of the Blood Farmers by Ed Adlum.
Irene Bone Crusher (Barcelona) is an illustrator working within the underground scene and contemporary dark art. Her work is defined by the use of blackwork, with high-contrast ink compositions where grotesque elements such as deformed bodies, tears, brains, and open wounds take center stage.
Influenced by Japanese ero-guro, the darker side of manga, and a strongly DIY aesthetic, her work explores the boundaries between beauty and discomfort, creating images that blur the line between attraction and repulsion. Beyond illustration, her creative universe is closely tied to horror cinema, music, and fanzine culture.
She has taken part in cultural initiatives linked to fantastic and genre culture, as well as the independent circuit in Barcelona, the Netherlands, and Germany, establishing herself as a distinctive voice within Catalonia’s dark art scene.
