After the second day of Comic-Con, a bunch of us headed to Dick’s Last Resort for dinner (second night in a row for us ;-). After an amusing dinner where we discovered the "bucket of food’ is really just a small plate of food on top of a bucket, we headed to the Artists’ reception for Back in the Day @ the L Street Gallery which is literally right across from the San Diego Convention Center. Sponsored by Wheaty Wheat Studios, Back in the Day was created and put into motion by Sket One as a venue for custom retro toys of all shapes and sizes.
The L Street Gallery is a very nice narrow space that extends back quite aways. The crowd was almost entirely made up of artists, industry folks, and 2 certain picture-happy toy bloggers. The show consisted of several very well-done toy customs plus quite a few original 2d pieces. Since it’s late I won’t do a full run-down of pieces (pics will have to suffice). Really quickly — two personal standouts were Sket’s inspired Evel Speederbike and Mimic’s cheerful and wacky Imperial Walker + Mr Potato turned dinosaur (?).
Quite a few of the artists were at the reception including Sket One, Chris Ryniak, Jim Koch, Tristan Eaton, Huck Gee, Michael Uman, and Andrew Bell. Quite a few other industry folks and artists showed up to take it all in — check out the pics 😉 Our apologies for not showing miQ willm0tt and Christian Azul’s pieces — we need to reshoot these. We will try to update tomorrow. Back in the Day showcases some really nice work. The show runs through August 21st — check it out if you get a chance. That’s all for tonight from SDCC (the bar won out over the blog) — we’ll have LOTS more shortly.
L Street Gallery (across from the Omni Hotel)
628 L Street (6th Avenue and L Street downtown)
San Diego CA 92101
619.645.6593
Jim Koch
GONZO247
Andrew Bell
Sarah Antoinette Martin
Michael Uman
Alex Pardee
Brandon Dunlap
oooOOOooo (Brian Morris)
Lesley Reppeteaux
MAD
Ace hammin’
Huck Gee
Sket One
Tristan Eaton
Chris Ryniak
THUY3
Kathie Olivas
Mimic
Persue
Chris Lee
Brand Peters
Jon Izen
Cam and Dawson De Leon
Michael Uman
"ME"
Andrew Bell, Sket, Keith (Toy Qube), Huck Gee, Jim Koch
Simone Legno from tokidoki
Tristan Eaton
Touma and Simone Legno
Jim Koch and the Baroness
Tim Tsui, friend and T9G
left: Tyson Summers and Rich VanOver
Sket, Jon
Chris Ryniak and wife
Sket and Sam Fout
Nichole, Touma, Yuki
Part of the gang
Jim Koch, Huck, Sket and AB
Outside L Street Gallery
Simone and gf, Kaori;
Triston, Touma, Yuki, Tim Tsui, T9G and Japanese Friends
Thanks for the comment dude, made my day 🙂 2 of my fave toys as a kid were the Mr Potato Head and then the Walker, but I was obsessed with Dinosaurs, so I threw that in for effect lol
mimic 🙂