ABOUT UBERMEDIA - KOBRALA

Ubermedia is the parent company of Kobrala, an underground art company created in 1998 by Andy Howl and his then girlfriend Alainna, while living in Savannah, Georgia. The couple taught themselves screen printing in their tiny one bedroom apartment above an insurance agency in downtown Savannah. They sold their shirts to small counter culture shops like Planet 3 in Savannah and Noir Leather in Detroit. Kobrala was originally launched via a cryptic series of posters stapled to telephone poles across downtown Savannah. The posters featured obscure esoteric slogans like "Knowers don't talk. Talkers don't know." and "Everyone has a snake inside... is yours a kobra?" Artist Andy Howl provided the high contrast art and Alainna handled the printing and business side of the team.

It wasn't long before Kobrala hooked up with an online occult bookstore in 1998 which helped launch the company onto the web with their own site that summer. The couples bold black and white art t-shirts were soon getting attention from magazines like (now defunct) Boston based Instant Magazine and Heads Magazine and they had ads appearing in indie Devil in the Woods Magazine, Alternative Press, and punk bible Maximum Rock N Roll.

Kobrala relocated back to Michigan at the end of 1998 and the company soon expanded its catalogue to include new items. Long sleeve shirts with sleeve prints, skull caps, hand printed wall art pieces, and tribal masks imported from Indonesia.

In 2002 the couple had a child and started putting more energy into other artistic areas, such as painting and tattooing. In-house printing stopped in 2004, just before Andy and Alainna relocated to Southern Florida. Today Kobrala still produces orignal merchandise, the catalog can be found on this site or via www.kobra-la.com. For more info on artwork by Howl checkout his website at: http://www.andyhowl.com.

Visit Kobrala.com : http://www.kobrala.com