UNIDOME ANTIQUE SHOW 2012

Here in my hometown of Cedar Falls there is an annual antique and collectables show held at the Unidome, which is a huge sports arena next to the University of Northern Iowa campus.
I found out it was going on when I took my daughter Sam to a local store in the afternoon called 18th Street Vintage. The guys at the store happened to mention it was going on and had hoped that some of the people that came into town would visit their store also.

So Sam and I decided to hurry over to the antique show since we knew there would be a lot to look at and could take quite a while. Thankfully I had the day off work. I've been to this show a few times and I knew it could take hours to look the place over.


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Sam and I scoured the place and saw all kinds of excellent stuff. I took some photos of the stuff I thought was cool.


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I've seen these old Mr. Potato head sets online before, but never one up close.


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Here's Mr. Potato Head's pal Frankie Frank.

Here is a neat Howard the Duck glass from 7-11.




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This magazine was a Mad Magazine knock-off that never made it past the first issue. When I went back to the booth to buy it, someone had beaten me to the punch.


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A fat Albert figure I'd never seen before.


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A non-talking PeeWee doll? I have one of these that was supposed to talk but the string broke. I saw another one of these at the show that was larger with a ventriloquist dummy mouth also.


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These wind-ups were $2.50 a piece. I tried to talk the lady down to $1.00 but she refused.

I found all these Evel Knievel dolls still in the original package.


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I also ran across three pieces of Pixieware which was popular during the late 50s and early 60s. They are jars and dishes with pixie heads on them. there are some really awesome ones if you get a chance to Google it sometime check out Howard Holt's "Pixieware".


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I saw lots of vintage Marx figures including Nutty Mads, and my favorite classic monsters.


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Here's a pic of a California Raisin puppet I'd never seen before.


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I sold some stuff to a couple dealers there which was nice and I made $50. I only bought two things. I got a Topps garbage candy container, and I paid for a whole box of Star Wars ships just to get a gremlin figure that I saw in there. I came out quite a bit ahead.

When I got home and sorted through everything I found some neat figures down in the box including a Dungeons & Dragons figure, a Star Wars Taun Taun, and a dusty old Evel Knievel doll.


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Overall it was a great time and a nice "daddy-daughter" day.

RECENT DOODLES AND SKETCHES 7-10

I haven't been working on any big art projects lately but I'm usually doodling one thing or another so I thought I'd share some of the little stuff.

I was messing around with a lot of 80s characters and drawing up these little sketches to put in an 80sville type of small town that I had drawn up. I figured I'd just draw the town first and just plant them in later with photoshop but I ended up finding out a little too late that I added too much detail and the characters didn't look good shrunk-down and squeezed into the streets and windows.

The drawings are still pretty fun though by themselves.



Starting from top left and working our way down we have Monchichi the thumb/banana sucking fuzzy monkey. I was thinking it might be funny to have him sticking his thumb in another monchichi's butt. (childish but funny).
There is vomiting Odie or "Grodie". The gag is supposed to be a long gush of puke instead of the tongue.
A "Poochie" dog ripping apart a Cabbage Patch Kid.
Q-Bert and PacMan, a couple Smurfs and Strawberry Deathcake? A goth version that smells like clove cigarettes?





Care Bears bearing 80s logos I planned on scattering around town (too small to see the logos on their bellies).



Alphie II the reading robot helping kids learn to spell "FART" and other various 4-letter words.
More Strawberry Deathcake ideas with little pets and names like "Moonberry Gloom" smelling like formaldehyde.
Charlie Brown who was supposed to be exiting a building shaped like the Snoopy Sno-cone maker from the early 80s.
Garfield, Gloworms, Q-Bert, and Fisher Price Little People (rabid dog that bit little boy).



HeMan VS the Shirttales



A few Tomy robot sketches



Snoopy sitting on his shithouse



Cabbage Patch Kids "Koosas" the animal versions that were supposed to be pets.



Rainbow Not-So Brite picking on star sprites.

Here's another random drawing I did on the back of an old book.



And a couple of recent Garbage Pail Kids drawings (Shown with the original cards).













That's all for now.

CEREAL OF THE 80'S

Sit down in front of your Saturday morning cartoons and munch away on that delicious bowl of 1980s cereal. Can you resist digging the prize out of the box right away? Will the cereal turn the milk colors?
Scroll through these happy memories of your 80s breakfast.


GHOSTBUSTERS CEREAL 1985








RAINBOW BRITE CEREAL 1984




NINTENDO CEREAL SYSTEM 1988




GREMLINS CEREAL 1984


I've got this Gizmo doll in my studio. When you shake him he squeeks.


DONKEY KONG CEREAL 1983


DONKEY KONG JR. CEREAL 1983


CABBAGE PATCH KIDS CEREAL 1985


MR. T CEREAL 1984

This cereal always reminds me of Pee Wee's Big Adventure when he eats it for breakfast.






CRISPY CRITTERS 1989


CROONCHY STARS 1989


C3POS CEREAL 1984




PAC-MAN CEREAL 1980




E.T. CEREAL 1984


BARBIE CEREAL 1988


ICE CREAM CONE CEREAL 1987


Who could resist putting the little ice cream puffs on top of the cones and eating them one by one?


I have one of these green octopus wall crawlers in my studio. It still works just fine after being washed with soapy water. This was from Froot Loops (1986).


NERDS CEREAL 1985
Like the nintendo cereal this had two separate compartments that had different cereal.

The smelly markers on this box were the first mail away I ever sent for. I was in second grade and I didn't understand the concept of the postal service. The day after I sent the letter I sat in a lawn chair at the curb out front of my house waiting for the mailman to bring me my markers. I seriously believed they were coming from Willy Wonka's factory. That summer I sat on the curb every morning for over a month. Finally the day they showed up I wore them all out in about three or four hours.


G.I. JOE 1985


SMURF-BERRY CRUNCH 1985

This one must have been around for a while because I remember eating craploads of Smurf-Berry Crunch.

I hope this brought back some marshmellowriffic memories. Sorry for you kiddos that had to eat malt-o-meal. This post has been part of your complete breakfast!!