Wheaty Wheat Studios, perhaps best known for the MAD*Ls and the recent Joe Ledbetter toys, has just announced the addition of three extraordinarily talented artists to its in-house staff: Chris Lee and the husband and wife duo of Kathie Olivas and Brandt Peters. They will all be relocating to Los Angeles to join what is already one of the premiere companies in the designer toy industry.
Already an acclaimed artist and graphic designer, Chris Lee is currently finishing up his BS degree in Graphic Design at Sacramento State. He brings his many talents including graphic design, marketing and branding to Wheaty Wheat. 2006 will be an exciting year for Chris as Wheaty Wheat will release a line of vinyl toys based on his Urbanites art series. In addition, Chris and TADO’s Horror on Tour show will open on January 13th at Rotofugi in Chicago.
Brandt Peters and Kathie Olivas are both internationally recognized artists currently based in Florida. Their Circus Posterus design collective has raised the bar for fine art printing and art curation on the East Coast and will continue to do so on the West Coast as part of Wheaty Wheat Studios. Wheaty Wheat has optioned and licensed a series of vinyl toys based on Brandt Peters’ "neo-vintage" Slap-Happy property which will be released in the summer of 2006. Wheaty Wheat is also in negotation with Kathie Olivas to produce a line of toys based on her series of characters.
Richard VanOver and Debbie Yoon’s Wheaty Studios has quickly grown to be a force in designer toys with an impressive 20 artist based licensed toy projects to date. 2006 should be the best year yet! We’re excited to see the company grow as a result of their hard-work and dedication to this new art form and the people who create it. Of course, we’re most excited about all the upcoming toys Wheaty Wheat has in store for collectors. Wheaty Wheat is set to blow minds at Toy Fair 2006 in Feburary with a massive lineup of beautiful toys some already announced and some shrouded in secrecy. For more info on Wheaty Wheat’s newest team members, see the full Wheaty Wheat press release.
Yeaaa, sounds like a good time to party! Brandt Peters and Kathie Olivas -they ROCK!
AWWW YEAH! Wheaty Wheat will be unstoppable now!
Congrats to everyone all around!
The All Mighty Wheaty Wheat!!!!!!!! You better Recognizzzze!
WWS = USM
Niiiiiiiiice!
Congrats ..Looking strong for 06!!
dizaaaamn. WW keeps getting stronger and stronger! Glad i got in on the action early on!!! 🙂
Congrats to WW, Chris, Brandt, and Kathie!!!
Congratulations. Can you publish a list of the 20 artist WW has made toys for? I don’t believe WW has made that many figures. Maybe WW is counting repaints ? also, Its sad to hear WW lost J. Led to Kid robot. Cant have it all.
First off, congratulations to all parties! I am a fan of Wheaty Wheat and Kathie & Brandt. In response to Notman (who, I should add, gave a fake email,)it must be fun to be so negative; perhaps you should go and look at Wheaty Wheat’s site and actually see what they do. Apparently they must be doing pretty well considering the hard core talent they’ve added to their staff. You apparently seem to know something no one else does– when did Mr. Ledbetter stop working with WW, or vice versa?