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Wacky Packages: The Book

Published on May 21, 2008 in fun. 0 Comments Tags: art, art spiegelman, artist, bill griffith, cartoon, cartooning, cartoonist, Cool Stuff, Illustration, kim deitch, norm saunders, parody, trading cards, wacky packages, wacky packs.

Wacky Packages book image Who doesn’t remember those Wacky Packages — collectible trading cards of cartoon product parodies growing up as a kid in the ’70′s? Well, I guess people thatÂ didn’t grow up in the ’70′s…

Anyways, there seems to be a new Wacky Packages 35th anniversary retrospective book— available now (even though Amazon’s release date reads June 1, 2008…).

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Monster Initial Sticker Name Generator

Published on October 21, 2007 in art. 0 Comments Tags: art, cartoon, cartooning, creature, free, fun, Halloween, monster, trading cards.

Monster intitial sticker name image - George
A cool online image generator at I-Mockery.com that will create your name out of 1974 Topps Monster Initial Stickers letter art.

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PEZ MP3 player logo design

Published on October 14, 2005 in art. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, art, Atari, Coleco, design, gadget, graphic design, Illustration, illustrator, logo, MAD Magazine, mp3, Odd Rods, PEZ, Portfolio, Star Wars, trading cards, video game.

All my gadget RSS feeds are a-buzz with the news that the PEZ MP3 player is finally available, and the logo was designed by me. I’m partially, non-credited famous! Yow!

The guy who created this officially licensed PEZ MP3 player — which is actually a real PEZ dispenser that has an MP3 player inside — is a stay at home dad, and a nice guy as well. He started the project up as a hobby, and from internet buzz he started thinking, “What if…” and today it’s a reality.

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