Nerd (Un)Culture
Background Legendary “neo-primitive” artist/cartoonist Mark Beyer has influenced contemporary art and comics with his work over the last twenty years. Gaining attention through covers and stories in RAW magazine, he solidified his place with a long-running weekly comic strip, “Amy…
Background If you’re a reader of the Sunday Comics, you might have seen (and even read) the rather popular strip named Mutts – by Patrick McDonnell. Dark Horse has the license to produce figures of the Mutts characters, and recently…
Background If the name Kerry Horvath sounds familiar to you…it’s because she is Uglydoll creator David Horvath’s sister. Kerry, along with fellow LA based artist Darth Rimmer, have created a line of ice cream inspired characters known as Evil Icecream….
Background One of the newest, and coolest, product lines from UNKL Brand is the known as JunPo. The initial wave contains 3 rotocast vinyl figures that stand around 6” in height. The JunPo came out of the shadows just after…
Background Out on his own and ready to explore. Our curious little friend escaped from the lab just in the nick of time…or did he? Atomic Monkey has created a few new products based on their monkey mascot. The Franken…
Background Attaboy and Rock America are back at it with a new variation on their widely popular Axtrx vinyl figure. The Fuzzy on the Outside Axtrx is currently available in two different colors – hot pink and jet black. If…
Background The Gwin is a curious creature based on Tux (the Linux mascot), created by Larry Ewing & The GIMP. Gwins spend most of their time eating, sleeping, and hoarding treasure. They often form “armies” to protect their amassed riches….
Background The past several months have been like Christmas for Uglydoll fans. Moxy, Chuckanucka, the Secret Mission Uglydolls…now Peaco. David and Sun-Min are introducing the newest (and pinkest) character in the Ugly line. Peaco is very shy. Well…shy on the…
Background FreeBento.com has sent us one of Frank Kozik’s new rotocast vinyl Labbit figures. These Labbits are the younger, more innocent brothers of the Smorkin’ variety. Kidrobot might have felt somewhat pressured to appeal to younger clientele…which birthed this sweeter,…
Background David and Sun-Min have introduced several new Uglydoll characters over the past few months. The latest available Ugly is known as Chuckanucka (Peaco is now a pre-order). After premiering at Toy Fair 2006, the Ugly masses have been clamoring…
Background Jamungo’s BUDs (Blow Up Dolls) were one of the most popular blind-boxed toy lines of the past year. The 3.75” line was made up of 10 different designs on the same basic body. NADEs were made in the same…
Background There’s no need to fear…Underdog is here! The Underdog character was brought to life as a shoeshine boy/superhero. He changes in a phone booth (similar to Superman) and takes his special Underdog Super Energy Vitamin Pill to get his…
Background Blackwater Toys’ line of Kuggs polyresin figures are beginning to land at designer toy retailers. The Kuggs story is a pretty interesting one. To read the entire story, you will want to check out the Blackwater website, but here…
Background In the year 2526…Mankind has eradicated all human life from the galaxy. Earth’s animals have formed national teams and launched their space arks into the cosmos…Unable to reach peaceful agreement, the teams construct crude arenas on surrounding moons. There…
Background ZLIKS are a strange species of creatures that live primarily underground. They often travel in packs and will only emerge from their burrows in search of food, fun, friends… or revenge. The line, produced by Wheaty Wheat Studios, has…