19 Responses to “Franco Shades New Illustrator: Jon Contino”

1. Pretty Weak Says:
   March 11th, 2009 at 6:19 pm

   This shit is corny, why are they even posting this up on rollernews? You extorted the sport enough already. Take your shit elsewhere.

2. NathanH Says:
   March 11th, 2009 at 6:38 pm

   I prefer Gost Brand…

3. dizzy Says:
   March 11th, 2009 at 6:42 pm

   Yeah can’t replace Arlo.

4. seba Says:
   March 11th, 2009 at 6:43 pm

   glad to see some real franco shade , joe dont listen to theese hoes ,they dont know

5. Decepticon Says:
   March 11th, 2009 at 7:01 pm

   Fucking embarrassing to know one of the leading companies in rollerblading tries to make us look like LAZY, QUITTING, CUMMY LOVIN SONS OF GUNS.
   Stop making us look like we don’t care. Its not cool and its not clever… Great move getting rid of Arlo – he was destroying the brand, now step away from this ‘quitters never lose’ bollocks and scrap the new slogan ‘busy doing nothing’.
   Come up with something intelligent for a change. Go back to your roots.

6. jo Says:
   March 11th, 2009 at 7:17 pm

   the hoe is you seba…arlo was the man, frsh isnt as good as before…its only a small copy of itself nowadays. its like arlo took the whole style with him leaving FRSH and founded gost, so these new design are quiet cool, but in a comparison to arlos artworks, they look like poor copies to me. arlo is such a great artist, you cant replace him…in my opinion frsh will only survive because of the good image it had with arlo..alone its nothing… so good luck to arlo and “gost”… by the way..there is a huge lack of love in these new illustrations, they look cold and flat to me, what you wont find in the old ones at all…arlos stuff was so deep and lovely, so much details, YOU CANT REPLACE HIM!

7. Jay Cottrell Says:
   March 11th, 2009 at 7:59 pm

   I dont know why people like cartooons on their shirts anyway, I thought it was lame when I was 12

8. RobF Says:
   March 11th, 2009 at 8:17 pm

   yeah but you were the coolest 12 year old in town Jay Cottrell.

   this stuff seems like an arloesque copy. not good not bad.

9. ilayfatdumps Says:
   March 11th, 2009 at 9:15 pm

   gay, always been gay.

10. AustinG. Says:
    March 11th, 2009 at 9:22 pm

    Gay now.
    Used to be alright.

11. poop Says:
    March 11th, 2009 at 10:05 pm

    of course you can’t replace arlo but they need a new artist, so they got one.

    Anyways, the line for spring is nice, but those logo things don’t look that great in my opinion. I do love the hammer however.

12. mothraw Says:
    March 11th, 2009 at 11:12 pm

    ‘boarding’?? regardless of the design as a ‘travel’ shirt
    no rollerblader will want ‘boarding’ written on their shirt
    there’s enough of an identity crisis already
    arlo is franco shade..without him … theres only fp films and that died years ago.
    sad :(

13. CoachRollingVision Says:
    March 11th, 2009 at 11:32 pm

    hmm yea mmna! i like but then again nope

14. kaseta Says:
    March 11th, 2009 at 11:37 pm

    why not have other artist? yea it does look like a different style, but arent they trying to keep it similar? do you think that nike has the same artist for every shirt or shoe design? no…. but just for the record i could do better than that stuff, arlo hit me up

15. Jou Says:
    March 11th, 2009 at 11:49 pm

    looks ok but arlo is a legend

16. seba Says:
    March 12th, 2009 at 12:15 am

    franco shade was dope before arlo , try learning some history

17. Tompaul Says:
    March 12th, 2009 at 1:06 am

    Meh, don’t really like em, I’d maybe wear the airport tag one..

    ..I reckon I’m gonna be more of a Gost person. These just aren’t the same without Arlo.

18. speakonit Says:
    March 12th, 2009 at 5:27 am

    It looks like a Paul Frank designer got added to replace a legend.
    I’ll go GOST too.

19. Wrekshop Ryan Says:
    March 12th, 2009 at 6:36 am

    I hate to say it but I agree with Deception^ I love Arlo but lets start representing some positive stuff on the t-shirts. We aren’t all quitters and losers here.

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