Monday, October 14, 2013

Strange Days Show! @ Toy Art Gallery

Toy Art Gallery is proud to present STRANGE DAYS, with Itokin Park, Brent Nolasco, Martin Ontiveros, Josh Herbolsheimer, Michael Pro, and Shirahama/Yatsuashi. A combination of creepy, cute, and unusual, STRANGE DAYS features vinyl toy editions, one-off customized pieces, sculpture, 2D paintings and drawings, and more!

Strange Days will also see the debut of two new TAG-produced vinyl toys: BLOODTHIRST by Brent Nolasco and ROTTING REAPER CORPSE from Michael Pro. Both will available in very limited quantities.

Please join us for the opening on Saturday, Oct. 19th, 2013 at Toy Art Gallery’s showroom located at 7571 Melrose Ave. Hollywood CA 90046.

STRANGE DAYS runs through Nov. 6th.

RSVP on Facebook!

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

DKE Toys presents “The 99 Deaths of Jar Jar” @ Designer Con 2013

Here my piece for the show.

DKE Toys presents “The 99 Deaths of Jar Jar”, a group art show featuring 99 artists. Each artist was asked to submit a black and white, pen and ink illustration on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper and chose one way to maim, torture, and/or kill our least favorite Gungan.

Participating Artists Include:

64 Colors - A Little Stranger - Doktor A. - akirophoto - Ardabus Rubber - Asaad - Atila - Jason Atomic - Super Cooper Berella - Bigfoot - Joemm Blanche of CBNC - Botsch - Jon Burgerman - Candy - Nate Carle - Luke Chueh – Nicholas Dewey - Luis Diaz - Mike Egan - Dez Einswell - Brent Engstrom - Gus Fink - Frédéric Fleury - Brian Flynn - Steve (Go Hero) Forde - Free Humanity – Renee French - Gregg Gibbs - Darren Goldman - Dan Goodsell - Grenadier Stinny – James Hakola - Gary Ham - Nathan Hamill - Joshua Herbolsheimer - Jesse Hernandez - Francisco Herrera - Kerry Horvath – I Heart Guts - Jay222 – Jeremyville - JSalvador - kaNO - KiLL! - Sun-Min Kim + David Horvath - Scott Kinnebrew - Jim Koch – Frank Kozik - Wade Lageose - L’amour Supreme - Leecifer - LiLJAPAN - Abe Lincoln Jr. - Jerome Lu - Madtwiinz – Jim Mahfood aka Food One - Man One – Manly Art - Marka27 - Randy Martinez - Mauricio Tubesteak - El Maz - MCA – William Luke Miller - Miso - Nate Mitchell Squid Kids Ink - Nick the Ring - Brent Nolasco – Mitch O’Connell - Odio – olive47 - Jordan Owen - Virva Peikko - Ritzy Periwinkle - The Pizz - Playful Gorilla - PodgyPanda - Poulin Eurlegg – Dave Pressler - Ted Rall - Rob Reger - Renone - Jermaine Rogers - D. Ross “scribe” – Johnny Ryan - Phil Ryan - Dave Savage – SERBAN - Skinner - Bwana Spoons - Scott Tolleson - Triclops Studio - twerps! - Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca - valleyDweller – Denise Vasquez - Scott Wilkowski - Neil Winn - David Zajdman

Jar Jar Binks was contacted for comment about the event and noted about the show, “Why meesa so hated?”

This art show is not sponsored or endorsed by Lucasfilm, and has no relationship with them in any way. Jar Jar Binks and all related intellectual property is copyright and/or registered to Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All rights reserved. But who would really want to own the rights to Jar Jar anyway. Go step in poo doo.

Rumor has it that there may or may not be a corresponding collectable program (er.. crappy zine.. er..something) but that remains to be se

DKE Toys presents “The 99 Deaths of Jar Jar”

A two day only group art show exclusively at

Designer Con 2013

Saturday, November 9 & Sunday, November 10, 9am – 5pm