In about 24 hours, San Francisco-based artists, Doubleparlour [see studio visit/interview here], will be releasing 22 new hand-sculpted resin character toys. Each sculpture is a unique piece, finished with
Picture it: San Francisco, January 2009. A pre-skinny Alex Pardee had just opened an atrabilious art show entitled Letters From Digested Children. The concept: Missing children who’d been eaten by monsters were being
Donta Santistevan is a San Francisco-based artist and illustrator. Locals may know him from working at the Kidrobot store and drawing at Sketch Tuesdays. It was during the latter
Apolinário Pereira is a visual artist and sculptor based in Portugal and Switzerland. In 2009, “two days after Michael Jackson’s death,” he co-founded Salão Coboi “in the European Wild West
This picture tells you almost everything you need to know about Shing Yin Khor aka Sawdust Bear. As predicted, her “wunderkammer” in Comic-Con’s Small Press Area contained a
Shing Yin Khor (aka Sawdust Bear) seems to be setting up some kind of Wunderkammer at Comic-Con. “They” are trying to contain her at Small Press table P-16, but we’ll
Unfortunately, Chris Ryniak will not in attendance at Comic-Con this year, but his presence will be felt nonetheless. Ryniak, who loves nature, partnered with Ink It Labs to create a dimensional
In case you haven’t noticed, while the blogosphere is being inundated with press releases for more colorways of the same designer toys, Instagram is the new frontier for
The nice thing about “rules,” is that it’s fun to find exceptions. As I’ve mentioned on several previous occasions, and despite being what some folks might call “customized