Tina Lugo comes from the Bronx and likes the gorier, slutier side of life by the looks of things. Her work is in the same vain as those epic gore/torture manga images by Suehiro Maruo that we posted recently. If anything, Lugo is even more blatantly brutal.

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There’s no shortage of people who like looking at gory and violent imagery. But there’s a difference between looking at it and actually painstakingly creating it yourself. I’ve always found the people who make this sort of art fascinating.

Here’s what Lugo’s website says about her:

Inculcated by waves of Saturday morning cartoons, characters portrayed in comic book literature, and videogame culture, Tina Lugo became instantly infatuated with the bright colors of the animated world. As she grew up, the social and sexual undertones of these cartoons unbridled themselves from the confines of her childhood memory. Tina began to realize that the sexual and often tongue-in- cheek humor she expressed had stemmed from what she had watched on early 90’s television and only fueled her passion to uncover the subversive and controversial qualities in the pop culture of yesteryear.

Have a click through these hyper coloured frames of exquisite discomfort: