Jay Insult Art

Punk visual artist from NJ

01/07/2026

Okay, really need to know who is doing the set dressing on because this is WILD.

12/19/2024

Having a cool job is cool. Got to make a tour flyer for a band I've loved for a very long time, ! Thanks to for the kind use of his photo! Go see Subhumans and if you're in these zones!

11/22/2024

Signifier & signified.

09/18/2023

Made this tour poster for Billy Liar at the day job!

Billy's playing California with the great TV Smith, then hitting the road with Tightwire down to The Fest!

Photo of Billy by Grant Anderson

08/31/2023

Made up this wonderfully wacky little tour poster for my dear pals in my favorite band !

Friends in Buffalo, Cleveland, and Detroit, don't miss them when they come your way at the end of September!

08/09/2023

RIP to the great Jamie Reid. If you're an artist or designer working in the punk idiom in the past 45-ish years, something you've done has been directly or indirectly influenced by his work. To say otherwise makes you a liar.

06/14/2023

So saddened to learn of the loss of yet another of the indisputable all time greats, the AMAZING John Romita, Sr.

Ask anybody who draws superheroes in any context, professionally or just for fun, and they'll tell you that Spider-Man may be one of the toughest of the classics to really nail. He may look deceptively simple due to his elegant design, but he's TOUGH. From the webs to the shape of the eyes, to the way everything just POPS, the devil is really in the details. But there are few things as satisfying as drawing a Spider-Man that looks just right.

I first fell in love with the Friendly Neighborhood Wall Crawler on the animated series Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends in the early 80s, which certainly has Romita's influence all over it. When I started reading the comics, the artists who stood out the most to me were the likes of Mark Bagley and Todd McFarlane, so I would do my best to draw a very skinny, contortionist Spidey with giant bug-eyes that took up almost all of his face.

However, one of the first Spidey comics I bought, Amazing Spider-Man #365, the 30th anniversary issue, featured not only Bagley's art in the main story, but also Romita, illustrating Mary Jane Watson and Gwen Stacy both in the beautiful back-up story "I Remember Gwen."

For this tribute, I've tried to draw a more classic, Silver Age style Spidey face, with bold, prominent webs, a face that is extremely ovular (almost defying the idea that there are cheekbones or ears underneath), and narrow, almost sinister eyes.

It was a real joy to look back on Romita's work for inspiration. Along with some of the other recently passed masters like Neal Adams, George Pérez, and Tim Sale, he has left behind a legacy in superhero comics art and in our shared visual language of pop culture that will live on forever.

Not to mention, he has a literal legacy since his son, John Romita, Jr is ALSO a legend in the field.

RIP to the great John Romita, Sr.

A bonus story:

I was just recently having a long conversation with my friend Jon the other day, waxing poetic about how the "Face it, tiger..." panel is one of the greatest single panels in comics history, and undoubtedly one of the most lovingly homaged & parodied.

Nowadays it would undoubtedly be a splash page of its own, but in that book it was just part of the page, but everything about it is perfect. If a less capable artist had drawn a Mary Jane Watson who was anything less than jaw-dropping, the moment would not have landed with the seismic impact it had.

I'd been meaning to do my own tribute to that iconic panel, just for fun, but I hadn't gotten to it.

This did however set me on a night of reading the next several issues of early MJ appearances. One of the extraordinary things about that era of Spidey is the love and attention that was clearly given by the creators to the ongoing soap opera that was Peter Parker's personal life, and Romita's art is every bit as beautiful and compelling in a diner scene as it is during battles with The Rhino and The Lizard. Romita was an absolute master!

05/18/2023

The Ergs! - Old Bridge shirts are real, and they're spectacular! Cop yours at the show TONIGHT at !

A tribute to the hometown of the fellas, the pasta dump heard 'round the world, and the Boss. message me your size and it's on the house!

05/08/2023

As far as I'm concerned, the four greatest things to ever happen in Old Bridge, NJ were the formation of The Ergs!, the first time I saw Andrew WK at the Birch Hill Night Club, the time my old band was covering "Skulls" by the Misfits at M+M Hall on Halloween and a bat got inside the building, and the time a man dumped 500 lbs of pasta in the woods in Veterans Park.

I got to pay tribute to two of those events at once with this design, conceived by the genius !

You'll be able to get this as a T-shirt available at the Thursday 05/18/2023 Ergs! show at in Asbury Park, NJ with The Marked Men & !

Hey , we'll put one aside for you if ya want!

04/20/2023

Made a flyer for this great show my band is playing tonight with a bunch of our pals!

Re-post from :
TONIGHT! Spend 4/20 at the best damn in town!

It's an upstairs punk rock show with The Band, from Birmingham, AL, the Jersey Shore's , and from Staten Island!

7 pm doors // first band at 8 pm // FREE // 21+

193 Newark Avenue, Downtown Jersey City, NJ! Be there!

Flyer by

#420

04/10/2023

RIP to the legend Al Jaffee, king of the MAD Fold-In and a cartoonist par excellence responsible for warping young minds in NINE DECADES! 102 years old and he never grew up...that's the dream.

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