Last February, Ninja and Yolandi of South African Zef Rap Rave band Die Antwoord graced our fair city of San Francisco. They came to play music and release
Like many people who look at stuff on the Internet, I’m just wild about Grumpy Cat. The dour-faced feline appears on all manner of merchandise (I was helpless
Last weekend was an excellent one for next level toy art openings. The Midwest got hands on with Squadt Assembly at Rotofugi and the West Coast channeled the Far East with Creature
It looks like Japan’s Medicom Toy is gearing up for the second coming of Christ (Unlimited). Later this month, Medicom will release a new polystone art multiple based
This is the antidote to today’s arid array of art toys. It’s the panacea for prosaic plastic. The elixir vitae for vapid vinyl. The therapeutic treatment for tedious toys! And now
As an endnote to 2012, Sergey Safonov released a stark new figure, Govra, (the deity of the end). Well, it’s a new year (2013) and a new conference (Toycon
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
