Banksy is spawning a cottage industry.
Almost immediately after the graffiti artist unveiled his latest creation on the side of a West Side jiggle joint, a nearby sign company began hawking magnets and prints of the spray-painted image Thursday morning.
Dean Landry, of Certified Graphics on West 51st Street, said he spotted the piece on a rolldown gate at the entrance to Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club while walking to work around 8 a.m., then grabbed a camera and snapped some photos.
“We were printing by 8:30,” Landry said.
The rush products were offered at $5 for a 3-by-4-inch magnet, $10 for a 6-by-9 version and $20 for an 11-by-17 print, and got snapped up by many of the hundreds of Banksy fans who flocked to the Hell’s Kitchen site.
Rachel Reinicke, 24, of Middle Village, bought a small magnet because she couldn’t get close enough to eyeball the newest installment in Banksy’s month-long “Better Out Than In” project.
“I also bought it because so many of his works have been vandalized,” she said. “I’m from Queens, and the only two he did there didn’t last a day.”
The stenciled work shows a life-size image of dejected man in a suit, his shirt collar open as he’s slouched in a corner holding a bouquet of flowers whose red petals are falling to the ground.
“Waiting in vain … at the door of the club,” say the captions underneath two photos of the piece on Banksy’s web site.
A Hustler Club source said the place was locked up at 6:15 a.m., but someone came and hung a tarp over the gate two minutes later, then spent 43 minutes behind it.
Beefy guards were quickly posted to protect the potential goldmine.
Earlier this year, a Banksy mural removed from the side of a London building sold for $1.1 million.
Several dancers posed for photos with the Banksy just before workers began removing the gate for safekeeping around 6:30 p.m.
Hustler Club marketing director Steve Karel said the skin palace was “honored” that Banksy used it as his canvas, adding that “while we’d love to leave the work in place, it’s required we lift the gate when we open for business.”