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Gibson GuitarTown: Sunset Strip Hollywood, CA features the KISS Guitar: Dressed To Kill - created by James Rutnam, Visual Artist

Photos from jasoninhollywood.blogspot.com

The Sunset Strip and Gibson Guitar announces the launch of GuitarTown, a public arts project that will feature more than 25 ten-foot tall fiberglass Gibson Les Paul model guitars strategically placed on the legendary Sunset Strip in West Hollywood beginning in August, 2010.

Each guitar sculpture will celebrate a musician, personality or artist unique to The Sunset Strip's history and Gibson Guitar.

"I chose to do my guitar as a tribute to KISS because as a fan of rock and roll, I felt their image and style were well suited to represent rock in a big way."

- James Rutnam, Visual Artist, "Dressed To Kill"

This homage to KISS can be found just below L.A.'s infamous boutique hotel, Chateau Marmont, along Sunset Boulevard.Gibson GuitarTown: Sunset Strip Hollywood, CA features the KISS Guitar: Dressed To Kill - created by James Rutnam, Visual Artist

Photos from jasoninhollywood.blogspot.com

The Sunset Strip and Gibson Guitar announces the launch of GuitarTown, a public arts project that will feature more than 25 ten-foot tall fiberglass Gibson Les Paul model guitars strategically placed on the legendary Sunset Strip in West Hollywood beginning in August, 2010.

Each guitar sculpture will celebrate a musician, personality or artist unique to The Sunset Strip's history and Gibson Guitar.

"I chose to do my guitar as a tribute to KISS because as a fan of rock and roll, I felt their image and style were well suited to represent rock in a big way."

- James Rutnam, Visual Artist, "Dressed To Kill"

This homage to KISS can be found just below L.A.'s infamous boutique hotel, Chateau Marmont, along Sunset Boulevard.

The oversized Gibson guitar sculptures will be created by local and nationally acclaimed visual artists and placed along the 1.6-mile Sunset Strip in front of the boulevard's landmarks and businesses, including the Whisky A Go-Go, The Roxy Theatre and Sunset Marquis.

The project will unite The Sunset Strip's art, music and business communities and will later raise funds for numerous charitable organizations.

The guitars will complete a "tour" of The Strip and then be sold at a Gala Auction, with all proceeds benefiting nonprofit organizations and charities. The Sunset Strip GuitarTown project will be administered through the Gibson Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Gibson Guitar Corp., which is dedicated to improving the quality of life through its support of the arts, education, health & welfare and environmental causes.

Though FANGORIA #297 has yet to hit stands (check out a first look here), we're currently hard at work on our second Halloween-season spectacular and thought we'd give you an advance peek at our Fango #298 cover boy, after the jump...

For nearly 40 years, almost every stadium stage on the face of the Earth has fallen prey to the toothy stomp of Gene Simmons' ruby-eyed dragon boots; has been bathed in the warm splat of his fake-blood-tainted saliva; has had its rafters scorched by the belch of his petrol-gargled fire breath. And since the legendary Kiss frontman's entire identity was forged in horror and dark-fantasy culture, we're tipping our hats to rock's original monster, "The Demon" himself, in this special, one-of-a-kind issue of FANGORIA (on sale in October). Buckle in for an exclusive sit-down with Simmons where we talk about monsters, junk culture, comic books, THE TWILIGHT ZONE and, of course...horror. We'll also chat up his brother in bombast, Paul Stanley, about his own relationship with the genre.Though FANGORIA #297 has yet to hit stands (check out a first look here), we're currently hard at work on our second Halloween-season spectacular and thought we'd give you an advance peek at our Fango #298 cover boy, after the jump...

For nearly 40 years, almost every stadium stage on the face of the Earth has fallen prey to the toothy stomp of Gene Simmons' ruby-eyed dragon boots; has been bathed in the warm splat of his fake-blood-tainted saliva; has had its rafters scorched by the belch of his petrol-gargled fire breath. And since the legendary Kiss frontman's entire identity was forged in horror and dark-fantasy culture, we're tipping our hats to rock's original monster, "The Demon" himself, in this special, one-of-a-kind issue of FANGORIA (on sale in October). Buckle in for an exclusive sit-down with Simmons where we talk about monsters, junk culture, comic books, THE TWILIGHT ZONE and, of course...horror. We'll also chat up his brother in bombast, Paul Stanley, about his own relationship with the genre.

The cover will feature the image seen above: a hand-painted oil-on-canvas masterwork from Hawaii-based artist Brad Parker (http://tikishark.com), commissioned exclusively for Fango. Inside will be a huge, removable foldout poster of that painting, suitable for framing!

Of course, Fango #298 will also feature gobs of other gory goodness, including words with Wes Craven, the continuation of our chat with Adam Green about HATCHET II, interviews with the directors of hot indies AMER and MONSTERS, a look back at Hitchcock's immortal PSYCHO, a conversation with Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, a spotlight on Japanese frights, Hammer horror and tons more terror. But for KISS fans, this issue will be, well, extra special. Keep your eyes peeled, and keep logging on to Fangoria.com for all your horror culture needs!