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Some class Dov and the team at DKE Toys, the godfarther and goto guys for bootleg style art toys and Dov and the team are ready to pick up where they left off last year. DKE Toys is pleased to announce their second annual LIVE standalone virtual event, #DKECON 2022! It’s official! get your bank accounts ready, get your internet connections boosted as Dov of DKE Toys is back with a huge lineup from around the world for your bootleg style art collectables. The programming will include surprise releases, artist interviews, artist studio tours, giveaways, surprise guests, contests and more! Check out the artist lineup below and a taste of what’s to come this WEEK.
featured Artists for #DKECON 2022 include:
1980who –Acme Eclectic Compan – Blue Monday Press – Buzzard Guts – Dripface
Epoxy Crusader – Fatdads Toys –Fatoh / Kidding Toy – Ferrous – For The Love of Old Toys
Frank Kozik – Freaky Weeky – Geezer Periodicals – Hella Radical Toys – Joshua D. Hoaglund
King Spider Toys – Leonardo – Luke Chueh – Mark Todd – Medeuces Wild – Mike Egan – Nikster Productions – OnlyYoliArt – Paul Rentler – ReCollection – Remakes Plethora – RESSINBLOOD
Ron English – RYCA – Samuel Kelemer – Scott C. – Scott Wilkowski – Suckadelic –Tiddy Bean Toys
ToneZoneToys – Toyz R Sus – Whistling Pony – Yucko Toys and more…
The Seventh Dimensional Swindle: King by Scott Wilkowski x Suckadelic
Signed and numbered editions of 50
$100
Instagram: @scottwilkowski @sucklord
Lucky by Mike Egan
Signed and numbered edition of 100
$50
Instagram: @mikeeganart
www.mikeeganart.com
Bio: Mike Egan is a Pittsburgh, PA based artist who received a BFA at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in 2000. After graduating Mike attended mortuary school in Pittsburgh and worked as an embalmer. While being on call as an embalmer Mike used the downtime to hone his artistic style. In 2006, a friend put together a gallery show in Pittsburgh and included his paintings. He sold three the opening night and has been working with galleries all over the U.S., Canada and the UK ever since.
Resign by Luke Chueh
Born in Philadelphia, but tragically raised in Fresno, Luke Chueh (pronounced CHU) attended Cal Poly San Luis Obipso, where he earned a BS in Art & Design. In 2003, Luke moved to Los Angeles and started pursuing a career as a studio artist, quickly working his way up the ranks of the “Pop Surrealist / Low Brow” art scene.
Employing minimal color schemes, simple animal characters, and a seemingly endless list of ill-fated situations, Chueh stylistically balances cute with brute, walking the fine line between comedy and tragedy.
Hand cast and painted 3.75″ scale carded resin figure
Signed and numbered edition of 100
$100
Web: www.lukechueh.com
Twitter/Instagram: @lukechueh
Shop: lukechueh.bigcartel.com
STR WAS: DTH VDR by Mark Todd
Signed and numbered edition of 50
$50
Bio: Like many kids raised in the 70s, Mark was influenced at an early age by Star Wars and comic books. Unlike many kids, he grew up just a few miles from the Vegas strip, neon and glitz looming over the city. Mark’s fancy clients include The New Yorker, New York Times and Getty Publishing among others and is the co-creator of the book “Whatcha’ Mean, What’s A Zine?”, a creative guide to making self-published comics. You can find his paintings in Texas at Webb Gallery. He graduated with honors from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California where he co-teaches illustration with his wife, artist Esther Pearl Watson. Home life includes their daughter Lili Todd who is also an artist. Check out the gallery he opened with Aaron Smith in Joshua Tree called Hey There Projects.
Instagram @mark_todd
https://marktodd.cargo.site
https://www.heythereprojects.com
Kozik by Suckadelic
Instagram: @sucklord
Bio: The Sucklord is a New York City Pop Artist and Television Personality known for his subversive Action Figure mashups and Reality TV Persona. Operating under the Brand SUCKADELIC, The Sucklord’s Line of self-manufactured Bootleg Toys steal shamelessly from STAR WARS, Vintage Advertising and All manner of Pop Culture Trash. Packaged in layers of ironic self-Mockery, His shoddy looking wares have inspired an entire secondary Art movement, with dozens of entrepreneurial Toy Bootleggers creating their own versions of highly referential, low-Rent interpretations of their favorite figures. The Suck-aesthetic carries over into the Sucklord’s Media Enterprise with the thoughtful-yet-raunchy Talk show, The SUCKHOUR and The Lo-Fi Sci-Fi Serial, TOY LORDS of CHINATOWN. The Sucklord has appeared on Several Reality TV programs such As BRAVO’S Work of Art: The Next Great Artist and The Dating Game, using those venues as an opportunity to create spectacular pieces of Live Performance Art. Recently The Sucklord has increased the scale of his work, putting oversized Blister-carded figures in Tokyo Art Galleries, the homes of the famously wealthy, and the Walls of downtown New York City.
Lady Starkiller by OnlyYoliArt
Signed and numbered edition of 20
$50
Instagram @onlyyoliart
Bio: OnlyYoliArt is the proud wife of Geezerperiodicals and loving mother of five. Hailing from bum f*#% Oklahoma. She’s a creator of all sorts, with a dark, dirty mind a tyedyed soul, and one smart a$$ mouth. Yoli continues to rally for small businesses, women’s empowerment and the LGBTQ community. If you can’t love yourself how the hell are you gonna love somebody else?
Bob A. Fett by Yucko Toys
Signed and numbered edition of 20
$65
Instagram @yuckotoys
Land of the Boss: Reptile Mutant by Whistling Pony
Signed and numbered edition of 20
$45
Instagram @whistlingponytoys
Trite Sublimates: Template by Whistling Pony
Signed and numbered edition of 20
$25
Instagram @whistlingponytoys
Shore Leave by Acme Eclectic Company
Signed and numbered edition of 20
$50
Instagram @acme.eclectic.co
Mexican Myths: Pink Pancho by Ferrous
Signed and numbered edition of 20
$40
Instagram @terriblecult
Malverde by Freaky Weeky
Signed and numbered edition of 20
$45
Instagram @freaky.weeky
Street Wars: The Jacket of Puffy Fett by Fatoh / Kidding Toy
Signed and numbered edition of 100
$100
Instagram @fatohh
Chewbuyca by For The Love of Old Toys
Signed and numbered edition of 40
$55
Bio: UK based artist who goes by For The Love of Old Toys (FTLOOT). He likes tapping that nostalgia vein hard!
Instagram @fortheloveofoldtoys
Super Star World: Wampa Kong by Buzzard Guts
Signed and numbered edition of 20
$65
Card Art by Joel Hatmaker @jojohomefries
Instagram: @damarxtoys
Bio: Buzzard Guts are the scraps picked clean and left behind to simmer. The choicest morsels savoured and presented to you by the Dain Marx Foundation, creating and exploring alternate universes since before the days of kitbashed hand cast resin figures, when toys were made with roofing caulk and ground-up goat hooves…and “bootlegs” were made to fool the consumer into buying an un-authentic replica of rare collectables and not used as an artistic interpretation of reality.
Plywood Warriors: Birch Fett by 1980who
Signed and numbered edition of 20
$100
Instagram @1980who
White Tears by Nikster Productions
Signed and numbered edition of 20
$65
Instagram @niksterproductions
The 1980 International Afghan Heroin Syndicate: Russian Front by RESSINBLOOD
Signed and numbered edition of 20
$50
Instagram @ress_in_blood
Eddie Kes of RESSINBLOOD is an accomplished painter and street artist and runs Raw Power Tattoo in PA.
Cannabis Cantina: Stoneda Baba by ToneZoneToys
Signed and numbered edition of 20
$50
Instagram: @tonezonetoys
Bio: ToneZoneToys aka Tony Chambers is an Oklahoma based artist that has been making his own resin art since 2017. He enjoys air-cooled Volkswagens and Blue Moon.
Brat vs The Earth Humans by Epoxy Crusader
Signed and numbered edition of 20
$40
Instagram: @epoxy_crusader
Bio: Mop boy nerd, artist, geek and pop-culture enthusiast, resin bootlegger, toy collector and tmnt cultist.
That One Night… by RYCA
Signed and numbered edition of 30
$95
Instagram @ryca_artist
ryca.net
Beskar Buddies by RYCA
Signed and numbered edition of 30
$55
Instagram @ryca_artist
ryca.net
Acid Wars by Medeuces Wild
Signed and numbered edition of 20 different figures
$55
Instagram @medeuceswild
Website: www.mugcostanzatoys.com
Bio: Medeuces Wild is a visual artist, resin caster and zine maker known for her parodies of product design, pop culture icons and sci-fi characters. Her work often showcases themes of feminism, sexual positivity, and political satire.
Ernest Goes To Hell by Blue Monday Press
Signed and numbered edition of 20
$65
Ben Gore is a multimedia artist based in Brighton, England. He likes making things with his hands whether that be in resin, epoxy, clay or paper. He also runs the independent arts publisher Blue Monday Press, which recently published the book The Bootleg Bible, a guide to bootleg toymakers from around the world.
Instagram @bluemondaypress
www.bluemondaypress.com
Old Chuck by Ron English
Signed and numbered edition of 100
$100
Instagram @ronenglish
Sculpt by @davebondiart
Kindly Deeds Done For Free by Remakes Plethora
Chuckles by Fatdads Toys
Signed and numbered edition of 20
$50
Instagram @fatdadstoys
Figures painted by Jenn Scadutes
Sarlacc Shit by Hella Radical Toys
Signed and numbered edition of 20
$40
Instagram: @hellaradicaltoys
D.R.A.C.O. (Defensive Reconnaissance Across Celestial Orbit) by Geezer Periodicals
Signed and numbered edition of 15
$150
Includes copy of comic with 28 pages of action.
Instagram @geezerperiodicals
Bio: Geezer Periodicals (Bradley DeFate) is a 6 year veteran of toy making. The Oklahoma native is a full-time toy maker, entrepreneur, and film enthusiast. When he’s not making super rad stuff he’s usually watching old movies or reading 90s comics.
Creepy Old Man by Dripface
Signed and numbered edition of 20
$75
Instagram: @dripface
Sucklord vs Vectar by Leonardo & Suckadelic
Buttface Man by Samuel Kelemer
WHEN: March 25-27th 2020 Friday 12pm-8pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am-7pm PT.
WHERE: The DKE Toys booth will be set up in the DKE warehouse and available to all via a live continuous Zoom webinar-style meeting Friday 12pm-8pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am-7pm PT.
The online store will go live with all of the new #DKECON editions at 12pm PT Friday March 25th and will remain open for the duration of the show. All exclusive products will be limited to one per person per item on Friday.
Starting Saturday at 10am customers will be able to purchase two or more based on availability. All attempts will be made to combine multiple purchases and refund excess shipping.
All convention releases will be available simultaneously in DKE online store.
Zoom link https://dketoys.com/zoom Store link https://dketoys.com/store More and updated information www.dkecon.com Check out all the releases on Instagram @dketoys
Friday March 25, 2022
12:00pm #DKECON store opens
12:00pm #DKECON Zoom begins
1:00pm Surprise Releases announced
2:00pm Artist Interview:
3:00pm The Joy of Ghouling with Ghoul of Gabba (Live)
Toys on Tap: Break Time Bootlegs with Yucko & Yoyodyne Toy Division
Killing Time with Barbarian Rage
4:00pm Artist Interview: TBA
5:00pm Artist Interview: TBA
5:45pm Chicken Burger Disco
6:00pm Artist Interview: TBA
7:30pm Daily Giveaway with Barbarian Rage
8:00pm #DKECON Zoom ends (store remains open)
Saturday March 26, 2022
10:00am #DKECON Zoom begins
11:00am Surprise Releases announced
12:00pm Artist Interview: TBA
1:00pm Artist Interview: TBA
1:45pm Chicken Burger Disco
2:00pm Artist Interview: TBA
3:00pm The Joy of Ghouling with Ghoul of Gabba (Live)
Toys on Tap: Break Time Bootlegs with Yucko & Yoyodyne Toy Division
Killing Time with Barbarian Rage
4:00pm Artist Interview: TBA
5:00pm Artist Interview: TBA
6:30pm Daily Giveaway with Barbarian Rage
7:00pm #DKECON Zoom ends (store remains open)
Sunday March 27, 2022
10:00am #DKECON Zoom begins
11:00am Surprise Releases announced
12:00pm Artist Interview: TBA
1:00pm Artist Interview: TBA
1:45pm Chicken Burger Disco
2:00pm Artist Interview: TBA
3:00pm The Joy of Ghouling with Ghoul of Gabba (Live)
Toys on Tap: Break Time Bootlegs with Yucko & Yoyodyne Toy Division
Killing Time with Barbarian Rage
4:00pm Artist Interview: TBA
5:00pm Artist Interview: TBA
6:30pm Daily Giveaway with Barbarian Rage
7:00pm #DKECON Zoom ends (store remains open)
*Everything subject to change…
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