solo pack - NicheInterests/mistfunk GitHub Wiki

Most artpacks represent the collective striving of an entire crew, but periodically it has been known to happen that one solitary artist populates an entire artpack collection with just their own work, give or take a couple of collaborative cameo appearances by guests.

Typically these are career retrospectives (off the top of my head Eerie and Prisonernumberone had them, oh yes and Cthulu released GETREADY.ZIP) where most of the artwork is being re-released in a collected form, but sometimes an inspired maniac will also just draw an entire pack on their own. (In the modern era, Filth has done this a couple of times with b0dies in 2013 and CRiME in 2016, and hortau and goto80 dropping solo collections in 2024. And of course our 2022 releases TREK2022 and LBS-TAROT were solo packs by Darkman Almighty and Littlebitspace, respectively!)

When the entire collection is basically the work of a single individual and named and described that way, it's a kind of a flex, but sometimes it will go the other way and one artist will, perhaps aspirationally, release a solo pack as a group -- Otium's Galza releases are often this way, as are Cleaner's Fire Dream releases (more or less) and CoaXCable's [CoolPhat] packs. In these cases it can be more of a humblebrag, dialing down the ego in the service of the wider brand.