ENFU X RPS SHOW!!

Hey Ya'll,

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Been a while since I posted in the blog section.  I guess its the Artist>Writer side of me.

But a really awesome show is lined up for March 6th 6pm-11pm at Rock Paper Scissors!

6 new Enfu illustrations will be displayed.  Here is what will be offered:  

Limited edition canvas prints (36"x36") edition of 12 only.  Sign up on the sign up sheet to reserve your print.

Limited Edition Giclees (12"x12") edition of 50.  Buy your copy at the show.

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If you can please RSVP at the Facebook event page.   Bring your Uwajimaya bags and I will sign them for you.  

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I Fart Rainbow Web Comic Up

So I've finally gotten to release my web comic "I Fart Rainbow".  The comic will appear in print in the free bimonthly IBUKI Magazine released in the Seattle area out in the streets now.

I will update the comic section with ones that have already appeared in print on Ibuki like this one:

 

Also I will update ones that won't appear on the latest issue of Ibuki (but may in the future) like this one:

Like anything else I do, these comics are just another form of self expression, and satisfies my need to express it.  Being bilingual and bi cultural simply means being exposed to another paradigm, something which I'll continue to explore by comparing, contrasting, and poking fun at both.

In print the Japanese comics will appear in their native layout of vertical, but for the web I've chosen to go with all horizontal for ease of reader use.  

Thank you for your continued support and I appreciate all of it.

Enfu Sightings

I've started taking Elly out for a stroll in Seattle and will be posting my photos on my Flickr page.

If you spot enfu please send me your pics and they will make it to the enfu sightings section.  Thanks.

Enfu will have some work up at Rock Paper Scissors in Seattle early next year.  More on that later.

 

She is the main character for the comic "I Fart Rainbow" that I'm currently drawing for Ibuki Magazine.

See you around!

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I Fart Rainbow comic debut at Kobo

Thank you all for coming out to see the show.  Officially kicking off the start of "I Fart Rainbow" showing the characters to the public for the first time at Kobo at Higo.  The actual strip will appear in 2010's first Ibuki Magazine.

Here are some pix from the show:

 

I had commissioned Harue Fujikawa to make me clay figures of Elly and Puri for me to take around with me to pose for my Enfu Flickr pages.  Here they are making their first public appearance posing for the show.  More pix after the jump...

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Blue C Sushi Seattle Downtown x Enfu

Blue C Sushi opened their Seattle downtown branch today!  Its a great location right near the convention center, it's located here.Here are some of the pix of the opening night.  There are a lot of Enfu pieces up.  Thank you Blue C!

 

I will be adding more pix soon!

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Uwajimaya Niko Niko Boy Designer Bag Debut

The day has come people.  Uwajimaya has announced the days that they will be debuting the new enfu Niko Niko Boy Designer Bag!

Here is when the bags will debut:

Beaverton:  Friday Sept. 18th

Renton:  Friday Sept. 18th

Seattle:  Monday Sept. 21st

Bellevue:  Tuesday Sept. 22nd.

The price is $4.99 and they have only 6000 of them!  Get them while the gettins good.

The poster at the gift shop is $20.  Pick one up.  Pick another one up for a friend.

Akimatsuri 2009 x enfu

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...

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Hiroki x enfu

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.

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Compound Art Gallery x Enfu :: Textbook History Show

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.

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Enfu & Wing Luke Asian Museum

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:

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i fart rainbow

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!

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We Power KEXP

I was lucky to be asked to design a shirt for KEXP a couple months ago, and I was eager to do so because I love silkscreens, and I love music as well.  The shirt I made was off of my most popular print of "Denshin Poles", which was so popular it sold out.  Here is the design below, to get yourself one and to support a great cause give your pledge today.

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Nihontown Canvas Print available online.

Enfu is pleased to announce the Enfu Stretch Canvas Print is now more accessible to my out of state and International buyers!  The canvas print already made is huge and makes it very difficult and expensive to ship.  Also when collectors fly overseas to buy art on vacation, they'd bring back a rolled up version of the canvas to have it stretched/framed locally.  

Now rolled up with my signed, numbered vertical canvas bar you can drop by any frame store and have them make it for you, having them including the vertical bar in the frame.   

 

enfu print # 21 V3:

Limited Edition Stretch Canvas Print

edition size: 500

print date: 07.30.2008

dims: 12"x60"x1.5"

Cost: $450+ ( $30 S/H)
 

The fully framed version of this print is available at Kobo & Bluebottle at $500.

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Sakuracon 2009 recap

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...

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