Perry Bible Fellowship is easily one of the best comics around. It’s so rare to find such a truly original and consistently funny strip with such a unique and complex illustrative technique. In fact, Nicholas Gurewitch has crafted a series of completely different styles and he’s only 25. (”Keats, big poet Keats, was […]
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Monthly Archive › December, 2007
Monthly Archive › December, 2007
posted on December 13th, 2007 in Ask a Ninja, Tiki Bar TV, Undies
iTunes Creates “Best of 2007 Podcasts”
Apple gives props to the newest pioneers of podcasting by naming their best podcasts of 2007 (both new and “classics.”) Dozens of certifiable undies abound. Ask A Ninja, Tiki Bar TV, Mondo’s Happy Tree Friends, It’s Jerry Time and Joe Cartoon to name but only a few.
posted on December 11th, 2007 in Content, Information Design, Merch, Merchandise, Monetizing, Podcast, Tiki Bar TV
Tiki Bar TV launches the Lala Pinup Calendar
Tiki Bar TV’s Lala Fastwaster now has a pinup calendar. Artfully rendered by Vancouver visual effects artist and increasingly-popular pinup illustrator Kevin Genzel (thethirdsequence.com) this calendar achieves a lot more than meets the eye. For thousands of Internet Geeks, saying “Lala Pinup Calendar?!” will doubtless be more than enough to capture credit card numbers. But this hits a trifecta, well, ok, maybe a quadfecta.
- “Lala Pinup?!” - Understood
- Direct Function - By actually providing real utility, it increases the impulse purchase likelihood because “Hey, I need a calendar anyway…”
- Shibboleth - Tiki Bar TV now offers another product that lets fans identify themselves as “in the Tiki Bar TV Fan Club”
- Brand Deepening - The genuinely authentic rendering of these illustrations itself reinforces the cool retro vibe which spans other Tiki Bar TV elements.
All these elements together just deepen and expand the Tiki Bar TV brand. We’ve already mentioned their truly awesome original Charooba Mug here. Charooba is the Tiki Bar TV mascot made into an actual Tiki Mug. (A coffee table book that ITSELF becomes a coffee table!) This wicked, green glazed creature is a must own for any serious fan of the show and anyone who calls themselves a Tiki Collector. Buy them both and be done with it.
See the wonder of the Wondermark calendar process:
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