The long awaited launch of our new custom trucker hats will be happening at Enfu x Kobo Trunk show 2013. It's an open invite but please let us know if you're going via the official Facebook event page here. We would love to have you visit us on 5/4/13, 12-5pm, and 5/5/13, 12-4pm at Kobo: 602-68 S Jackson St. Seattle, WA 98104.
The bag signings and the poster debut at the 3 Uwajimaya locations was a success! Thanks everybody for coming out, getting a bag or 7 signed, and showing your support! I've collected a few images from all over for you to enjoy here.
Thanks for coming out to support the Wing Luke, generous patrons!
I debuted the Uwajimaya's "Freshness Seafood" and "Freshness Produce" Diptych canvas prints at the live auction! It raised money for the Wing's Youth Can program, the whole point of the gala.
The bags I was lucky to design will be on sale at stores March 21st.
It was the first of the edition of 25, and it is huge. If you would like to purchase any further editions feel free to contact me.
I got to meet Shannon Lee, the star of the show, and I'm glad she enjoyed my print. I asked if I could somehow work in her dad in an "i fart rainbow" comic.
Also excited to meet Tom Skerritt
I had a blast at the auction, thank you patrons and thank you Wing Luke!
I drew this illustration for Bungie, a place dear in my heart where I had worked for 5yrs. I worked as an Environment Artist on Halo 3, Halo ODST, Halo Reach, and Halo Reach DLC. I'm very proud of my work there, and so happy that I was able to make a piece commemorating Bungie's 20th Anniversary.
The print on sale available to the public will be on sale only today and will go to charity via the Bungie Foundation. It should appear on the Bungie Store, but if it isn't up, grab it today on Amazon here!!
Below is the thumb. I will post deets later. Go go go!
I was thankful that to participate in Akimatsuri 2009 put on by ENMA.
This year I was selective in what I showed, and had heavy promotional help from Uwajimaya, Ibuki, andBlue C Sushi.
I showed the Niko Niko Boy print with the help of Uwajimaya's new fall designer bag. They are a limited run of 600 and sell for $4.99 somewhere around/after September 17th. More details to follow.
Ibuki's debut magazine issue featured all the J-Chix driving people to recognize these before they even came to my booth.
Also many people mentioned they've seen enfu at Blue C both in SouthCenter and in Bellevue.
Thank you all for so much cross promotional opportunities!! Akimatsuri is one of the bigger gatherings of Japanese Nationals in this region. I would then say Bon Odori is the biggest gatherings of Nikkei people in the area.
Cosplay Pix I took at Akimatsuri after the jump...
Hiroki is a small dessert and cafe located in North Seattle near Greenlake. It was a perfect location for a nice cozy enfu opening. The show runs through September 2009. Take your little feet and get your body there to view the fu.
I debuted two new pieces here.
1. Niko Niko Boy Poster / Uwajimaya Designer bag.
I was very lucky to be able to design their fall bag for them, which well be sold at Uwajimaya for $4.99. The bag is limited to only 6,000, so we'll see how fast these puppies sell out.
2. NihonTown Minis:
I've released many versions of NihonTown, only because of the demand for more. I've delivered the NihonTown Minis. These are small snippets of NihonTown on stretch canvas. They have a branded enfu logo on the back, and are easy to hang anywhere in your house. They make great gifts and are easy to pick up. Kobo will carry them starting next week. More on these on a later post.
You can view the set of pictures from this show here on enfu's flickr page.
Did a day trip to Portland for the art opening. So worth it. Thank you Compound for putting on a great show and packing the entire place with so many awesome people!!
The show was: Textbook History: Pikadons Diptych is the new piece shown, which depicts both of the nuclear weapons of mass destruction being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The prints along with my description of the prints will be in my catalogue section soon, but you can buy the prints through Compound's online store here.
More pix after the jump.
Introducing Milkie Roll. Come get your Milkie Roll on.
Tootsie Rolls and Milky are both very iconic chewy candies of Chocolate and Milk flavor.
The girl in the background is the mascot for Fujiya’s Milky candy. She alone is a very recognizable as a childhood symbol of candy in Japan.
Milkie Roll is meant to be childhood innocence concentrate.
More works in progess shots and a video clip after the jump:
Introducing Enfu's first T-shirt on Threadless. Wait, but before it can become a shirt I need your help to vote this in production. If this goes well you'll be seeing more enfu shirts being made. Enfu cannot create things without your valued support. Please vote here! Tell your friends, and tell your enemies. Tweet, Retweet, rinse repeat. Domo arigato & thanks!
Sakuracon was like one of my new illustrations. Color explosion. I was blown away.
This year was my first year at Sakuracon ever, and I had an exhibitor booth. I just watched people pass by it was amazing. I would say more than any other place I've exhibited, Emerald City Comicon or Akimatsuri, Sakuracon by far had the most people reacting to my works. It was a great feeling, thanks. The most popular prints by far were 'Nihontown' and the new 'EnFuBar' prints. The new prints will be posted in the catalogues section soon. Until then the only place you can get them in the Seattle area is at Kobo.
More pics after the jump...
ECCC was great this year. Thanks for all your support.
We had a record turnout for [Redacted] Artists:
Milton Cadogan, Robt McLees, Lorraine McLees, Tom Doyle, Frank Cappezuto, Shi Kai Wang, plus Issac Hannaford came and joined us along with many other [Redacted]. We ended up signing a few [Redacted] books and figures, but our time was mostly spent just selling prints, drawing, or chatting it up with peeps.
Some more pics after the jump.
