Cookies collect information about your preferences and your devices and are used to make the site work as you expect it to, to understand how you interact with the site, and to show advertisements that are targeted to your interests. Over the years, artists — accomplished and amateur, working in mediums traditional and nontraditional — have (re-)interpreted the dark themes and mesmerizing imagery of Breaking Bad, a moral-corrosion character study of chemistry-teacher-turned-drug-kingpin Walter White (Bryan Cranston). We're not in the office because of COVID, but when we were in the office, I would linger in the hallway, staring at these things, and they'd say "Where's Vince?

So yeah, I think the short answer is when I saw corkboard after corkboard filled with these things all over the office, I started to realize this was a thing. Intrigued by the proliferation of very good Bad artwork all over the globe, series creator Vince Gilligan sought to showcase the breadth and depth of this phenomenon in the art book 99. As the art collection spread throughout the office, Gilligan would stop in the hallway daily and stare with awe until finally, two years ago, he began asking his team: “How do we share this? Ryan Stoddard, an artist and graphic designer from Georgia, created this portrait of Gus Fring after he was blown up by Walt's pipebomb.Immerse yourself in the captivating world of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman with our curated selection of fan creations.

Many hated him, many loved to hate him, and everyone kind of felt sorry for Hector because he could only communicate with a bell. It's a very interesting, ironic statement on the show that has inspired a lot of folks to go the other way with it. But then he encountered a “bigger pond” in his high school years, when he was briefly enrolled at Interlochen, an arts academy in Michigan. It's the Mount Everest and the Taj Majal all rolled up in one; along with all the other wonders of the world. He was inspired by his mother, as well as an art teacher whose son, Angus Wall, would become an Oscar-winning film editor for David Fincher.Lundberg's contemporary style and use of acrylic oranges and blues perfectly capture the stoic, respectable, and bone-chilling demeanor of Giancarlo Esposito's portrayal of this fan favorite. There's a young woman in Russia who does these amazing paintings that just look like photos, and they have this luminescence. But there's something altogether different about the idea of an artist — somewhere in Egypt or somewhere in China or somewhere in Eastern Europe; someone in a place that frankly I didn't even know was aware of Breaking Bad [creating Breaking Bad art]. What an amazing thrill, this feeling of, "God, this is something we did that inspired artists to do work. It's a weird thing looking at this stuff, because on the one hand I'm so honored that they'd be inspired by something I helped create.

I saw that one artist was working with hand-carved skateboard decks, another created acrylic paint Pez dispensers, and another was using repurposed textile waste. Printed on 100% cotton watercolour textured paper, Breaking Bad Text art prints would be at home in any gallery. And that's the stuff that sticks with you the most — at least in terms for a Breaking Bad fan looking at this book and thinking, "Wow, I never would have pictured seeing Walter White in this almost whimsical fashion that this artist has particular artist has painted him in. Breaking Bad is arguably one of the best television shows of all time, with a 96% Rotten Tomatoes score and hundreds of love letters in the form of fan art, both digital and physical. Breaking Bad is one of those rare television shows that changes the way people think about entertainment.It's wondrous to behold the character's journey with each binge viewing of the series in its entirety. Sam Johnson, a UK-born illustrator, perfectly captures Salamanca's frustration, a reminder of that fateful moment when he rang it one final time, before consuming himself and Gus Fring in an explosion.