Thank you substack subscribers - The Fine Art of Violence

In 2018 I started publishing editorial cartoons on Twitter which caught the eye of Kid Nate who offered me a regular column called MMA Squared. That regular column gave me the foothold to reach an audience and the confidence to create my dream job: making art books about MMA, and so The Fine Art of Violence was born.

I reached out to Kid Nate last week wanting to work with BE’s writers and editors to put together a new kind of Fine Art of Violence. The next book will not only feature art about the fights in the cage it will also tell the most compelling journalistic stories of 2023 outside the cage.

This year saw the president of the UFC commit domestic violence on camera, Bloody Elbow itself cut from its corporate parent, Vox Media, and come back from the dead through this Substack subscription to do the best journalism in MMA about the UFC Class Action Lawsuit.

While I sell hard copies of the book I also publish digital version and would like gift a copy of FAOV: 2023 to each substack subscriber in early 2024.

So without further ado, here is a preview of some of the artwork from the most significant moments in the men’s bantamweight division.