Brad Parker (artist)

Prior to his career as a painter, Parker was an illustrator in the film industry and a cartoonist, working for mainstream publishers such as DC, Marvel, and Chaos!

[3] His comics appeared in gay porn magazines, including ongoing series for Freshmen, titled "Junior Jock Jackoff Jizz Juice Journal" and "Ace's Adventures in the Year 2000".

In Hawaii, Parker showed his works at the Kona Oceanfront Gallery in Kailua-Kona, where his pop surrealist paintings focusing on the Tiki theme were exhibited and sold.

His works blend popular culture items like Hollywood monsters, anthropomorphized house pets, and other alien elements into Tiki environments based upon Hawaiian landscapes.

Parker states that he is making alternative representations of Tikis, and not producing the real thing, in order to avoid misrepresenting traditional Hawaiian indigenous culture.

[9] In 2016, Parker released a new series of works focusing on aquatic or jungle animals, and applied as tribal tattoos upon dish towels.

Magazine wrote of Parker's work: "His Polynesian pop cartoonland paintings draw from kitsch, elevating it to art.