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Illustration: Spectacular faux movie posters from illustrator Jangojim

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Date
12 June 2014

I love projects that are an homage to something cool from days gone by. I even get a bit weepy when I see the statue of Prince Albert outside The Royal Albert Hall that a heartbroken Queen Victoria commissioned. This project by Belgian illustrator Jangojim is not one of heartache and desolation, but a series of film posters created with his pal Anton Van Steelandtas as an homage to two mysterious Belgian filmmakers, The Jangton Brothers.

One of the posters is for a film called The Battle of Loo Water and, in Jangojim’s words is “A historical epic tale with grand battles and costumed actors. When a stray cannonball hits the sewers of Napoleon’s golden toilet, the Battle of Waterloo becomes the most pungent war ever fought. The green fields are flooded brown while everything in the path is swept away. When all is said and done a plague of mutated plants breaks free at epidemic proportions.” If that’s not worth making a poster for I don’t know what is. Check out the rest of his comics and illustrations over on his pretty funny blog.

An illustration of a soldier in a pink and white uniform standing amidst a surreal landscape of pipes and flowers. A blue ribbon wrapped around them reads “THE BATTLE OF LOO WATER”.
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Jangojim: The Battle of Loo Water

A colourful illustration for a film titled “Voodoo Vegas”. A police officer with sunglasses and a cigarette stands beside a grinning clown in a purple top hat. Below them, a swampy landscape features alligators, skulls, and a police boat. Text at the bottom reads “An instant swamp ass Jangton Bros film”.
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Jangojim: Voodoo Vegas

An illustration for “Pizza Ninja” by Jangton Kung Fu. A ninja in a black suit leaps across a yellow sun, carrying a pizza box. Below, a group of stylised characters stand before a traditional East Asian building, while two red dragons flank a large, melting pizza at the bottom.
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Jangojim: Pizza Ninja

An illustration of a giant green peacock looming over a small white church. A person in sunglasses stands on the church roof holding a cross, while the peacock holds a person in a blue dress in its beak. Text at the top reads “FEAR THE FANCY FEATHERS” and the word “PEACOCK” appears in bold yellow letters at the bottom.
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Jangojim: Peacock

An illustration of a movie theatre facade on a bright yellow background. The marquee reads “THE JANGTON BROTHERS” and a banner below reads “A FILM POSTER RETROSPECTIVE”. Above the theatre, a vintage film camera projects a beam of light surrounded by floating objects, including a gun, an octopus and a hat. Text at the top reads “ANTON VAN STEELANDT & JANGOJIM PRESENT:”.
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Jangojim: Flyer

A three-panel comic by Jangojim titled “Jango Comix”. A person tries on a “Virtual Reality Helmet” and is subsequently hit by a green car. In the final panel, the person’s ghost praises the “level of realism” and asks to buy the helmet.
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Jangojim: Virtual Reality

An illustration of a campsite on a small island, where a person in a red tent asks, “What’s it say?” after receiving a message in a bottle. Below, the bottle is enlarged to show a typewriter inside, with a page that reads, “Dear Sir, we have the best penis enlargement pills.”
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Jangojim: Boktor Magazine

An illustration of a person standing among oversized, colourful, surreal flowers against a blue background. A speech bubble reads, “This is too much flower shit. I’m gonna go stroke my chest hair and watch Terminator.” At the top, a yellow banner reads “Jangocomix” and “By Jangojim May 2013”.
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Jangojim: Flowers

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Liv Siddall

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Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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