DKE Toys returns to SDCC 2018 for another year, while many artists and vendors are choosing to opt out. So, with SDCC 2018 fast approaching, so does all of the press releases. DKE is starting off with Limited Edition carded Space Rat Action figures, from 1983. Salacious Crumb is a classic character and somehow, DKE has somehow managed to allocate 1100 of these figures from 1983. Each card back figure is going to be interpreted by one of 11 participating artists, limited to 100 pieces per design. Priced at $25 a piece, or a complete set of 11 different cards for $200, DKE is going to be setting numbers 1-20 aside for those competition-ist types. Be sure to check them out at their corner Booth #5045. Click on the image below to be taken to DKE's Flikr page, where they have all the pictures for the designs.
Artist Info provided by DKE Toys:
The participating SPACE RAT Artists are…
Scott C
Christian Clayton
Rob Clayton
Robbie Conal
Mike Egan
Alex Gross
Peter Kuper
Carlos Ramirez
Martha Rich
Mark Todd
Esther Pearl Watson
SPACE RAT Artists bios and info:
Scott C
@scottlava
Bio:
Scott Campbell (Scott C) creates paintings, illustrations, comics,
kid's books and video games. He worked at Double Fine productions as Art
Director on such games as the critically acclaimed Psychonauts and Brutal Legend.
Alongside this career in games, he has published numerous comics and
created paintings that have appeared in galleries and publications
around the world. Some of his most notable projects include the GREAT SHOWDOWNS series, “Igloo Head and Tree Head” series for the Flight Anthology, Double Fine Action Comics, Hickee Comics, the children's books If Dogs Run Free, XO OX: A Love Story, East Dragon, West Dragon, the Zombie In Love series, and HUG MACHINE. Splendid Life: The Art of Scott C collects much of his work over the past several years. Scott lives in Los Angeles.
Christian Clayton
@christianclayonstudios
Bio: Christian is an artist, painter, image maker and storyteller. Christian's
body of work includes his current individual studio practice and his
shared Clayton Brothers collaborative that spanned 20 years: 1996-2016.
His collaborative work has mounted ten solo exhibitions in galleries and
museums in the US and Asia. Christian lectures nationally, in Europe
and Asia. His work is in museums and foundations; public, corporate, and
private collections around the world including the Madison Museum of
Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum, and Saatchi Gallery. His work has
been featured in publications such as Art In America, Juxtapoz Magazine,
Flash Art, Hi-Fructose Magazine, American Illustration, Communication
Arts, New York Times, Los Angeles Times and the Huffington Post, The New
Yorker and RollingStone. Clayton Brothers published their first artist
monograph in 2003, titled, The Most Special Day of My Life, published by La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles, CA and Last Gasp, San Francisco, CA. Christian lives and works in Los Angeles County with his wife and two sons.
Rob Clayton
@rclayton13
Bio:
Rob Clayton, graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena
with honors. Utilizing skills learned over the past 20 years of
teaching, Rob recently started exploring unconventional means of
fabrication. The focus of his new body of work is pushing the ideas and
concepts of narrative sculpture. Rob currently serves as a full time
faculty member at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Robbie Conal
@robbieconal
Bio:
Robbie is considered one of the country’s foremost satirical street
poster artists. His work has been featured on “CBS This Morning”,
“Charlie Rose” and in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, the LA Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, People Magazine, Interview, and the Washington Post—which
dubbed him, “America’s foremost street artist”. Most recently, his work
has been collected by–and featured in exhibitions at–LACMA and MOCA in
Los Angeles, the San Jose Museum of Art, and his beloved hometown
favorite, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. He has authored three
books: Art Attack: The Midnight Politics of a Guerrilla Poster Artist,
1992 (HarperCollins); Artburn, 2003 (Akashic Books), and Not Your
Typical Political Animal, with wife Deborah Ross, 2009 (Art Attack
Press). He currently splits his time between Los Angeles, CA and the
Central California Coast.
Mike Egan
@mike77egan
Bio:
Mike Egan is a Pittsburgh 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 down time 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.
Alex Gross
@artofalexgross
Bio:
Alex Gross lives in Los Angeles, California. In 1990 he received a BFA
with honors from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Since the, he
has had ten solo exhibitions at various galleries and participated in
dozens of museum and gallery exhibitions across the globe. His 2017
exhibition with Corey Helford Gallery was his most recent solo
exhibition.
Peter Kuper
@kuperart
Bio:
Peter Kuper's illustrations and comics have appeared in newspapers and
magazines around the world including The New Yorker and MAD where he
has written and illustrated SPY vs. SPY every issue since 1997.He is
co-founder of World War 3 illustrated, a political comix magazine now in
its 40th year of publication. He has published over two dozen books
including The System, Diario de Oaxaca and Ruins which won the 2016
Eisner award.
Carlos Ramirez
@C.ramirez2323
Bio:
Carlos Ramirez is a native to California and a Coachella based artist.
Formerly known as one half of the collaborative artistic duo The Date
Farmers. His work has been exhibited internationally at London’s P.O.W.,
Berlin’s Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art, Jonathan
Levine Projects in NYC and Marsea Goldberg's New Image Art in Los
Angeles. Ramirez creates paintings and assemblages in a broad range of
compositions. Steeped in topics ranging from political to the Mexican
American experience and in vibrant colors set against backdrops of
street art to religious and popular iconography. Carlos’ work can also
be found on short animated film projects like N.A.S.A.’s A Volta by Sam Spiegel, Max Joseph’s From Dream to Reality and on People to People the latest album cover art for Joe Jonas’ band DNCE.
Martha Rich
@martharich63
Bio:
Martha Rich is a Philadelphia-based artist working in both the
commercial and fine art fields. Her work focuses on drawing, painting,
using words, while being absurd and funny.
Rich’s
commercial work has been used in music videos, magazines, on book
covers, murals, products and more. Her paintings have been shown in
galleries across the country and internationally.
Mark Todd
@mark_todd
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.
Currently, you can find his paintings in Los Angeles at Vielmetter
Gallery and 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, an aspiring artist herself and a French
Bulldog named Gherkin who is pretty creative at squeaky toy destruction.
Esther Pearl Watson
@estherpearlwatson
Bio:
Watson is a painter and comic artist. She has an MFA from CalArts. Her
paintings have exhibited worldwide, including Antonio Columbo Arte
Contemporanea in Milan and Susanne Vielmetter LA Projects. Her
award-winning comic,
Unlovable, is published in Bust Magazine and with Fantagraphics. She has published Blood Lady Commandos with Vice online and Welcome to
Crapland with Adult Swim online. She currently teaches at Art Center College of Design.
- Mark-Anthony
