Merry Christmas 2020

 To everyone a wish for a happy and safe Christmas and hopefully a better and brighter future in 2021.

V2A Wasteland Chronicles #1 Doomsday

Here's a cool project deserving of your backing if you're a fan of all things post-apocalyptic. From one of Wasteland Weekend's most popular performing bands, V2A, comes this graphic adventure of their exploits out among the ruins of civilization. Brought to life by a talented team of writers and artists and waiting for you to head on over to their Kickstarter page to help make this happen! V2A Doomsday

Hugh Keays-Byrne "TOEJOE" 1947-2020

 This week sadly saw the loss of one of the most significant figures from the Mad Max community, Hugh Keays-Byrne who passed away at the age of 73. His depiction of the biker gang leader, Toecutter, gave the first Mad Max a hefty boon in finding its audience and attraction around the world thanks to the convincing manic brutality and psychotic charisma that Keays-Byrne invested his anti-establishment character with. He returned to the series again for Mad Max Fury Road, this time playing the Warlord Immortan Joe. In this role Keays-Byrne brought to the screen one of cinema's most iconic villains and helped introduce a new generation to the world of Mad Max. He also appeared in many other movies appreciated by readers of this blog. Among those are the 1974 biker movie Stone, The Chain Reaction (1980) featuring savage car chases supervised by George Miller, Lorca and the Outlaws(1984) as the mercenary Danny in the troubled Roger Christian sci-fi movie and the post-apocalyptic sporting bloodbath Salute of the Jugger (1989). In 1992 he co-directed and appeared in the dystopian movie Resistance. He also found genre roles in TV productions such as Badlands 2005. He played the wanderer Moondance in this 1988 pilot that was very much Mad Max in tone, (directed by a different George Miller) and was lensed in the same location as Mad Max 2 out in Broken Hill, NSW. Keays-Byrne also had a recurring role as the character Grunchlk in Farscape.

Perhaps the best person to convey what Hugh meant to the Mad Max universe is George Miller which he did in this interview with Zack Sharf over at Indiewire.com after Keays-Byrne had passed. https://www.indiewire.com/2020/12/george-miller-honors-mad-max-actor-hugh-keays-byrne-dead-73-1234601980/  

How Mad Max movies were made.

Here's a great two-part doc into the making of the Mad Max movies created by Przemyslaw Herman with an focused look at story origins. For more in-depth videos on the series be sure to check out Przemyslaw's Youtube channel Mad Max Bible. 

Freakwave Concepts

Art by Brendan McCarthy for his Mad Max goes surfing concept Freakwave that was pitched to many Hollywood production companies including Ridley Scott. A few years later the movie Waterworld was released owing much influence to McCarthy's material. 

Wasteland Weekend 2019

Here’s a visual look back at 2019’s Wasteland Weekend out in the Mojave desert featuring images from and and some creatively inspired by the event.