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August schedule with a slight chance of fun.

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Rando photo. But I think this might sum up summer pretty well. If you think this face is goofy. You should see what my ocean face looks like.

Rando photo. But I think this might sum up summer pretty well. If you think this face is goofy. You should see what my ocean face looks like.

August Schedule

Friday August 4th Watermellon jungle boogie Steven.

Friday August 18th Open Studio. Yes…. My first ever open studio. More info soon.

Friday August 18th PK Reely fun release, and the Gravy Toys Megaload Kickstarter begins.

Friday August 25th. “Paintshop” opens on bwanaspoons.com

That’s it for now folks. I’d love to to a blogger SD recap, just need to find the enegy to get it going.

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Summer Funzone Sale

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Quickie sale this weekend thru Monday morning. Get 25% off an any orders over $100. Combine a pile of small bits, or pick up that sexytime custom or piece of original art you were hunting for. Folks that have outstanding orders will also get a littl…

Quickie sale this weekend thru Monday morning. Get 25% off an any orders over $100. Combine a pile of small bits, or pick up that sexytime custom or piece of original art you were hunting for. Folks that have outstanding orders will also get a little something nice in your box too. use coupon code FUNZONE at check out.

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Cyborg Hooligan SOB-04-BX-TYPE

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Work in Progress shot

Work in Progress shot

“What? This wing thing? Maybe it will make a bat, and fly out of my chest?” Cyborg Hooligan

Lonny is at it again. He’s built a new army of Cyborg Stardust, and he’s putting Private Hooligan in charge.

“Private Hooligan. Go out there and find us some new dice. I want 66 sided one, to feed to the Turtles, making them more loyal to us. Take your Hooligan’s Zeroes out there and start hunting” Lonny, biting his words on his seaweed mouth flaps, proclaimed.

Cyborg Hooligan. SOB-04-BX-TYPE

Friday june 30th. 10 hundred hours. Pacific Time.

Cyborg Hooligan. Burnt Charcoal Sparkle, silver, copper, and varies sprays and handpaint on black vinyl body. Comes with a pet Stankor. these guys are packaged together in a handmade box made just for this release. Box and figure are signed and numbered edition of 13.

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Brodarrfest and Five Points report card. A solid B

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What is Brodarrfest? And what are the Suns Of Brodarr?

Brodarr is a planet… somewhere in our galaxy. The Suns of Brodarr are the hundreds of brothers and sisters from just one mommy on planet Brodarr.

The Suns of Brodarr are aliens, who heard tale of earth and it’s tasty melty core. So they want to come and eat the Earth, but they can never find their way as they fight, and make love, and play dice, and drink, and get into trouble.

Brodarrfest is a celebration of all this through art.

We held the first one back in 2015 at FOE Gallery. Now the second one over in NYC at Five Points.

Five Points was to be a melting of comics and designer toys, something to give the indie crowd an alternative to NYCC. The first year was pretty amazing, good crowd on Saturday, and most everyone in attendance was a-ok. 

Now let’s pick it all apart, so we can make the next one even better.

Brodarrfest. Having this held inside another event was a fine idea. 

But I overthought and stressed about display WAY too much. coming from the west coast I had to think… how would I build and display everything. Should just bought some ikea junk and called it a day.

A weird and slightly frustrating thing was Saturday having multiple people AT the event, letting me know they were sorry they weren’t able to make it to my event the night before, or weren’t going to be able to make it that night. So either the display, or the way I was getting out the word, or maybe both were sorta lacking:)

Luckily I had scores more people tell me how much they enjoyed what they were seeing, flipping out on a painting, or a one-off they are looking at.

Preaching to the choir. This has been a big issue at SDCC, and then NYCC. I think the big issue here is exclusivity through cost. Your entry price is just WAY too high. So they only people going are already “all in”, and frankly this is a good way to make things stagnant, or even shrink the pool of people interested in these mediums. I am fully aware that Left Field Media, the promoters, and money behind this event are in it to make a profit. But the cost needs to come down in order to make it work for everyone. Saturday had a fair crowd, but Sunday attendance was pretty dismal.

I even have an idea, rather than just whining about it. If you just slashed Sunday’s price in half, I think the amount of ticket sales would increase tenfold, therefore making LFM more profit. this way more locals who are curious, and maybe only have $100 to dedicate to the day, including parking, and food, ect… might give the event a try, and enjoy what they see.

Toys vs comics. These are two avenues that would seem to make the perfect intersection. At this event, toys for some of us, did quite well.  I think comics, maybe not quite so much. Maybe because NYCC already has an entire hall dedicated to indie comics, and rows and rows of long boxes already, comics people didn’t come out for this quite as much. The longbox dealers were visibly, and audibly irritated with their lack of sales, creating some of the only bad vibes i witnessed at the whole event.

Again, I have ideas instead of just whining about it. Still invite and include any comics people. But put more focus on art, and attracting more illustrators. Follow the DCON formula more closely. Five points worked with Kano to do a gigantic beautiful mural in NYC, just bring more of THAT energy inside the convention. I was supposed to do a minigolf course, and fell short. So next year, with the help of Clutter I will make it happen.

Along the same lines as above. There was ONE dealer who had vintage Japanese sofubi, and I think he made a killing. Next year let’s see some more vintage dealers. The vintage sofubi dealer, Rob… made my day.

Both Brodarrfest and Five Points were a success. Please feel free to dialog here, so we can make next time even better.

Big fat thank you to Clutter for everything you do. I’ll most definitely be back next year for year two. Anotehr big thankyou to Jimbo and jumi and jet, my hosts. And double plus seven billion thank you to all the artists that came through, and everyone that rolled through, said hi, and picked up a goody or two. The cost to come from the west coast, and set this thing up was big, and you guys all made it worth while.

Bwana.

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Vote for this lil guys name and win! Plus a Steven givaway too.

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Help give this lil guy a name and you could win a blank of the very first run.I’m giving away two blank Kappa testshots. One for whoever’s name we vote on, and another just for voting.This weekend. Vote in the comments section here. I’ll tally up th…

Help give this lil guy a name and you could win a blank of the very first run.

I’m giving away two blank Kappa testshots. One for whoever’s name we vote on, and another just for voting.

This weekend. Vote in the comments section here. I’ll tally up the votes. One blank will be awarded to one random voter via the ol name in the hat, and one more will go to the person who sent in the name I use.

You can vote for up to three names.

Here are our candidates for my new Kappa friend.

Georgia

Egbert

Filbert 

Lily

Cheeks

Pea

myrtle

Kappa Tommy!

Cooter

Pam

Sweet Gherkin

Mahō no kaeru

Kappakaeru

Peter Wigwam

Smokey

Jenny Future 

Noodles

Shorty

Pancakes

 

 

Steven Giveaway.

I’m also giving a steven away to one random, name in the hat winner, from the pool of folks that pre-order the new Mixed Parts Jungle Boogie Steven. FUN. Oh.. Pre-orders end this sunday.

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Krackle & Klong resin rainbows friday maybe at 10am:)

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Krackle & KlongSo why is there only this one pic of tomorrow’s release? I’m still working on the joints. Magnets yes, but I was worried the ones i had were too small for some areas, and I was right. So back to the drawing board. I should have th…

Krackle & Klong

So why is there only this one pic of tomorrow’s release? I’m still working on the joints. Magnets yes, but I was worried the ones i had were too small for some areas, and I was right. So back to the drawing board. I should have this figured out… literally by early tomorrow morning with all release details posted up in the shop section.

Finished pouring all the globby and Zahzams that weren’t done. cleaned them up. Now i still need to put in the magnets and give them a nice clear coat.

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Oh Jimmeny Crickets! Happy news.

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Oh my.

Super flipping doopular news this morning. The first small batch of Jungle Boogie Steven are made. This photo is from Japan, as I still don’t have these in hand.

The very first shot of Steven. He’s still not even in the wild yet.

This is the third Steven the Bat sculpt.

Steven the Bat was my very first toy.

Super7 and I got the very first batch of them out at SDCC back in 2005. Crazy to think that was only 12 years ago. Or on the flipside, holy sharts. I have officially been making toys now for 12 years.

That first sculpt took over 2 years to come out into the wild, lots of communication failure with our contact in China, but we worked it all out, and Steven was born. This first sculpt has some occasional standing issues. Too much fig moonshine.

The second Steven sculpt was part of Super7’s Monster Family series, and was sculpted by Gargamel, who I had been working with for quite a bit by the time that second steven came out. Smaller, cuter, and a good stander.

And now this Jungle Boogie Steven. I started sculpting this winter 2015-16 I think. In late fall I sent off the finished sculpt to Japan. I did everything but the fittings on this beast, so don’t expect the clean smooth lines of the Gargamel sculpted Steven. This is more like an ancient artifact found inside a temple cave under the forest floor.

I can’t wait to hold this new Steven in my hands.

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Fishmist!

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We Call him Fishmist, but that’s not really his name. This is the latest Suns Of Brodarr collab project in the works.

I was immediately taken by Andrew’s inkings.

I read ApocalyptiGirl cover to cover one day at Floating World…and then came Head Lopper. Holy hell that’s a good book.

So I gave Andrew a holler, really a shot in the dark, and he was excited to play.

Here’s a good WIP of the sculpt by Beth Graves, which, with his fishsword will use a Lonny type body. Purty flipping stoked!

FINSTACHE is the bastard sibling of the Brodarr brothers. Mama Queen hooked up with a Magma Serpent in secret and the resulting child, FINSTACHE was immediately thrown into the Lava. Unbeknownst to the queen, little FINSTACHE survived the creamy lava flows, gained strength from it and spent his years honing the blade on his left hand... thirsty for revenge.

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