The thirteenth screen print in the
Mondo Star Wars Screen Print Series, “A Wretched Hive” by
Martin Ansin, looks awesome. It depicts one of my favorite scenes from the original
Star Wars film (I refuse to refer to it as “
A New Hope”), when Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi visit the Mos Eisley Cantina. Not only does the print feature a menagerie of Star Wars aliens, but it also marks the first time Han Solo or Greedo have appeared in a
Mondo Star Wars print.
Ansin thoughts behind “A Wretched Hive”: I've always liked that scene in
Reign Of Fire where these post-apocalyptic survivors re-enact
Star Wars scenes for their children; in the future, the stories that we really like have become legends. For this poster I tried to do something similar, but in the opposite direction in time. I wanted to see how the cantina scene would look if it had been illustrated for an old book, if
Star Wars was a traditional epic adventure sharing space with
King Arthur and
Beowulf. Who knows, maybe sometime in the future it will.
“A Wretched Hive” by Martin Ansin is a hand numbered 24“x36” screen print, and is the first Mondo Star Wars print to have a variant edition! The standard
Copper Edition, shown above, has a limited edition run size of 360 prints and retails for $50, while the variant
Metallic Silver Edition has a run size of only 150 prints and retails for $85. Collectors can purchase “A Wretched Hive” directly from the
Mondo Tees online store at a random time today, Thursday, November 18th.
