BIG Friday webshoppe fun

I’m back home from Japan as of yesterday afternoon. Friday there will be a big load of goodies. Brand new hats, prints, and tenugui made in collaboration with my friends at Sailosaibin. 10am pacific, right here.

Sorry for the radio silence for those of you with your eyes peeled to the blogger here. Back home now, and will be posting regularly again.

If you are trying to figure out what is what. A lot of what will be available- A few Jumbo Morels, and assorted toy buddies from the Madboxxx event. a nice load of Little Chonks Blind Bags, and some other babies ready for their forever homes.

It's a mad mad mad boxxx

Let’s hang in Nagoya May 3rd

A couple a gems in the ruff

fozzee panda prancakes with a gilly hat

Above and below I selected a few weeners from this big beautiful batch of one offs for Sailosaibin, Sufes, and Madboxxx. Which goes to where I’m not sure yet.

Papa marfa gets a new body

Fozzee

Gilly

Safety gooch

Morel Snacks

Fishstache (the head is Andrew Maclean design)

Trashcan Meaty mixed parts

Hey it’s Lonny

Toby

Edo

That’s a sweet horn Gilly

various friends

Thanks so much for checking this out.

Safety Gooch's Little house

Welcome hone Safety gooch

Safety first

Check your rear view. Safety Gooch is comin’ in hot. New stickers and hats on their way. SG is making it’s way through time and space on a cosmic trip.

Rampage & Gravy Funzone

When your sailin’. When your Sailosaibin.

Rampage and I are craming for fun this spring in Japan. three stops. Sailosaibin on April 25th with Shipman, Gumtaro, and Monstock. These goofy goobers above, plus one offs, new Tenugui, prints, hats and tee will all be on display.

This looks prety Superfestivally

Then later in the weekend we head over to Superfestival for more fun with Galaxy People and Datadub.

And our final stop will be hanging with friends in Nagoya. Come hang with us and some bitchin’ arts.

See you soon.

Friday Fungi Funs

Friday will be a pretty fungy day. The quantities won’t be too crazy, but the offerings mighty. Both of the above will be apinted, the marbled Morel Snacks pretty minimally so hopefully this choco marble can shine through. If i have time, a little run of Terry, and Safety gooch as well. We’ll see.

And note about shipping, workign on a bunch of stuff now, so anythign ordered friday will probably ship together with any other magic you’ve picked up recently, and you just get a little shipping combo discount before stuff goes out. Have a super day.

Little Chonks are here

Little Chonsk Series III have arrived with a release scheduled for this Friday 10am pacific. A painted run, a few blanks, and even a couple one offs. These will ship as blind bags. There are 4 characters and you can purchase up to 4 bags. I’m designing it so my shipper can’t see who gets what, in sealed bags, but the bags will all be numbered 1-4 so that you also won’t need to worry about getting duplicates. Purchase 1 is random, purchase 2, 3 or 4 and my shipper will pull bags with different numbers on them. This way someone who buys 4 bags won’t (unlikely anyways) end up with 4 Freddie… likewise with 3 or 2 bags either. Fun? I think so.

One offs I made to see how these would look with paint. Terry, Morel, Freddie, and Boris.

Edo is coming!

here’s the full monty of the test shot pulled yesterday. These pics were taken at the factory. So I do not yet have him in hand. I think this is Skulls color, but there’s actually going to be a few colors pulled so I’m not sure.

looks like he has great balance… I needed him to lean forward a bit so that big shell didn’t tip him backward on that tail, or at least that was/is the plan. So stoked about this doofy dweeb

Morel Snacks DX release friday December 20th

Next friday I’ll be doing a little something special. It’s been YEARS since I did any type of boxed release. So here we go. Red vinyl Morel Snacks with sprays and handpaints. in a lil aligator box and Snacks slip cover, and data card.

I’ll also be doing a Leeroy, and a Toby release at the same time. FINALLY with datacards. I’ver been so dang lazy about these data cards. These were originally meant to be a fun substitute for traditional header cards with bags, as although occasionally I’ll use plastic bags from my old stash. I stopped buying and (mostly) using polybags 7, maybe 8 years ago. but I still keep finding more from way back when, better to use them, rather than go to waste. Anywhoo sidetracks aside. I finally made datacards for Toby and leeroy. They are at the printer now.

Hope you all dig this Morel release.

Marbles 1980

Kinda a lot to unpack here… Marbles. So much fun. Me, the cutest dweeb. If i remember right, a woman who worked for the newspaper thought it was quite charming that me and this other kid were playing this old timey game of marbles. Yes, even waaaay back in 1980, it was considered some weird thing from the past.

Central Valley which is now called Shasta City… a teeny town near the Shasta Dam… just north of Redding. The original home of Skyway tuffs!

Schlitz?!? Back in the day when it was fine to just stand up in the back of the pick up truck and hold onto the roll bars for safety, and a little kid could where a beer hat, and your parents could just take you to Buds Steak house (not a steak house, but a dive bar where old ladies might give you a quarter to play the one video game in the place), to enjoy several drinks while i just hung out. Learned a lot how to be happy all by myself. this is probably how i became sorta good at making up my own stories and characters.

Mark… Each new place we moved to I would usually be lucky enough to make one good friend. We usually thrashed around in some bamboo in the back of my yard, or rode our BMX bikes up in the hills.

My name. My name growing up was James Brandon Stepp. Nobody, not even my parents ever called me James. Bwana was a nickname for me as a young adult by my partner, after an ape in the SF zoo, when we got hitched we changed our last names, and I completely dropped James. So my actual human legal name for 30 years now is Brandon (which I rarely refer to myself as) Bwana Spoons.

Baby Bwana history. JBS becomes BBS.

Jumbo Snacks one offs for Skulls Club

This week i made another batch of 5 Jumbo Morels for my Skulls And Rain Bones Society. Glow with sparkle, Cosmos, and pink vinyl with loads of sprays and some hand painted elements.

Oh my Gamjam is so close!!!

What? Gamjam or Grass Hut Art Market (I think Gamjam is winning the publicity war, but you can tell people either). #gamjam #grasshutartmarket

It's a one day art fair with toys, fine art, ceramics, zine and comics, prints, apparel, glass, and more toys.

Where? Lloyd Mall 2nd floor (street level from the Northside) in the old Ulta make up space. Plus lil' artshow at Grass Hut inside Floating World just a few doors down.

When? Saturday October 5th 11-6pm. It's once a year, but there will be Nathan's Mall Rats in December too.

How much? Entry for Adults is just $2, kids are free. If you want first dibs on certain toy makers, get yourself an RSVP tote.

Money sweet ass money? be prepared to pay in different forms. Everyone has some different way to take funds. Cash is always good, most people will take Venmo, or paypal, lots take cards, just come prepared to pay in different ways. Zelle... what's Zelle? Barter for gems and fancy rocks. Maybe.

Why? See your friends, see and maybe even buy some amazing eyeball melting art IN PERSON not just on our hand computers.

Just two weeks!!!!

We are Less than two weeks away from Gamjam!!! also known as Grass Hut Art Market thee 3rd

What? It’s the tiny artfair that could. a little less than 40 curated vendors of art, comics, toys, glass, ceramics, zines, apparel, and more toys AND another 40 artists who sent in goods for a special Grass Hut Art Market zone that we call the “Outta Town Crew” Mostly Soft vinyl, but some paintings and other treats too. There is also an art opeing at Grass Hut just a few doors down with Barely Human & Ressinblood. There’s three bigger panel murals by Nathan McKee, Violet Aveline, and Bwana Spoons and a mini panel by Rakugakiator at the Ulta Space, and ZORP will be playing us sounds and showing us visuals all day. FUN!!!

Where? Portland Oregon Lloyd Mall in the old Ulta shop. lloyd is mostly abandoned. Very weird, very awesome.

When? October 5th 11-6pm

How? anyone can come. It’s $2 for adults and Free for kids. Or you can Support the event by purchasing an RSVP tote and toy surprise in the webshoppe here. You would then get first dibs on toys and art from artists around the globe. Mostly Sofubi.

Hope to see you there.

Gargamel One Offs Coming to Gamjam!!! October 5th

Wow. These one offs look soooo good.

From Kiyoka “Zagoran paint motif is fireworks.
Other figures paint idea from windmill.
Or water wheel that I saw with you and Jon in Japan.”

Summer Slime is coming!

Tickets go on sale today at CB!

What? Summer Slime number 7.

When? Saturday August 3rd.

Where? In the hills of Santa Ana… just kidding. Santa Ana is pretty flat. Exact location given to RSVPers before the event as it is a private space.

Tell me more. Summer Slime started as an alternative and more personal funzone to SDCC in San Diego during comic con. Paul Kaiju had already been doing an event by himself, and sometimes with other artists. I would see him wandering about in San Diego his hometown, and we would say hi to each other. Sometimes he would call be Brian, once he called me Steve… I was just getting to know him. The first year he had his event in oldtown at Gunnzo I stopped by and hung out for a bit… and the next year it was on. Stayed at Paul’s house for the first time. I met Melissa… and then it was just like we were bonded. We would host the even together. I quit even going into SDCC, and we had loads of fun. Along the way we dubbed it Summer slime, and invited Rampage to come play as a permanent fixture as well. When the blip came, Gunnzo had to move, and the space wouldn’t work anymore, and I (I think) had the idea to team up with Creature Bazaar. Now it’s in Santa Ana every year, and our cast of beautiful weirdos continues to slowly grow. This year, officially Draculazer is joining, and officially Blitzkrieg is joining. Along, as always with a few other surprises. We hire some delicious catering for tacotime, and a DJ that spins REALLY good old pop and punk 45’s. It’s a dig dong flarking hoot!

Every year we all go for it. Making loads of one offs, runs, and other fun. Above is a small sampling of what I had last year. This year I’ll have 5 Jumbo Morel One offs, a regular run of Morel Snacks, Gilly, chonks, toby, and more… I already started messing around with some really fun mash ups too.

Hope to see you there. Please feel free if you have questions, or comments about your Summer Slime experiences. Were you at the first 5 and Dime show in the gaslight? What year was that?

Jumbo Morel One Offs 02-06

Wow. look at these babies. These first one offs 02 through 06 are for my skulls club. 01 was a test shot, and I auctioned that one off a couple weeks ago now. Hopoe you all dig them.

Let's Roll

Just a tiny bit more rolling around this year so far. And… it inspried me to make a new board. I think I probably rode 10 times in the whole of 2023. Albeit very short sessions I think I’ve already done that this year, and it’s barely about to be spring. That’s a pretty good start, and a good feeling too.

The Board on the left was an old Solitaire deck that I shaved down into a travel size board, but I still wanted it to be wide… test rode it a bit, and decided to go a little wider at 9” and that’s the board you’ll see in a month or two. Fun… and i think maybe maybe I can fit it diagonally into my suitcase when I fly.

Here’s the board graphics which will go on various stains.

In the next post I’ll show off the top graphic, and revised shape. The Baby Burro.

Friday The 15th

Boris The Bee

This Friday 10am pacific. Here. Avocado Jewel Boris, and Forest Frap Globby.

Really nice to follow up the Randall pair with these two gems. Pics of Globby soon.

I’m a little blurry today.

The whole pie or one piece at a time?

First. Thanks to everyone that rejoined Skulls club for 2024. I’ll be sending the first email before the end of next week.

Now for some other fun. I had snacks with a non toy person last week, and they asked if I sculpted my figures as one solid piece, or as individual pieces. And it had me thinking about it . I used to sculpt, or at least experiment with sculpting everything as one solid sculture, and then cut it apart later. But i found this more hassle than it’s worth. So these days I always sculpt each piece as it’s own section. It just makes way more sense to me.

:)