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
It’s been a minute (Pizza Victims!) since the inventive hues of Monstrehero [interviewed here in 2008] last graced these pages, but today, Sean and Cliff revive their Victim, and
I can’t think of a toy I’ve written about recently that’s polarized collectors quite like the Banksy-inspired Rude Copper and Bomb Hugger by UK-based toymakers, Apologies to Banksy. After I
Sticky Monster Lab is a multidisciplinary design agency from Seoul, Korea. They work in illustration, graphic design, animation, motion graphics and product design. All of those specializations come together as superb
Last night, one of my Dunces (Goody2Shoes) by Gary Baseman tumbled from its perch and broke a leg. I’m posting the photo here because although we get some
Having last captured my heart with an Overly Literal Cat Valentine, Vancouver-based artist Hine Mizushima gives me a smile again with this whimsical Self-extinguishing Firebug. Mizushima needle-felted the creature
Hooray for toy news from the land of Le Merde! Mike will be releasing his Misty Fog characters as multi-colored vinyl finger puppets (fenga papits). The 5-piece sets
2012 saw the release of 2bithack’s limited edition Banksy toy, Smiley Copper, and 2013 is off to a solid start in Banksy bootlegging. Introducing a full spectrum of Rude
Advance Base is a new project by Owen Ashworth, formerly of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. This video for “Summer Music” features a forlorn blue Muppet who pines for his
