Your Free Door Prize: PYGMON GROWTH CHART

Hello friends.
It’s been a very long time. It’s good to see you. I hope you’re holding up well in this world-wide wildness. 

I come to you bearing a gift: a Pygmon metric growth chart. This beautiful bit of ephemera was included as a fold-out insert in a Japanese children’s magazine in the early 70s. (The artist behind the wonderful painted image is, sadly, unknown to me.) Several years ago, after some long searching, I obtained a copy in good condition, and engaged the services of a professional archivist to make a top-quality scan of the image at full size. 

At last, I offer this chart as a (huge) .psd file for your downloading pleasure here.

My sincere wish is that many of you will download it and have it printed to scale on some sturdy paper or cardstock, to actually be used for its intended purpose by your own family, or a family you know and love and would like to gift it to. (Or several families! Makes a great baby shower gift!) In this way, we will carry the magic of Garamon, Pygmon, and Ultra-kaiju in general, into the future.

IMAGINATION! CREATION! GROWTH! MONSTERS! FOR THE CHILDREN!

Peace!!

Monster Attack Team #1... it's GARAMANIACAL!

The new issue of Monster Attack Team (tenth published issue, but first under the auspices of Famous Monsters of Filmland, thus labeled #1 for this relaunch- available here) has eight big pages of Gara-writing by and about yours truly! My section kicks off with "RISE, GARAMON", a rather epic article on Garamon and Garamon toys which I originally wrote in 2006, then heavily revised and updated when MAT approched me about contributing. There's also an interview I conducted with Ultra-artist extraordinaire and Friend of Garamania, Alex Wald; my personal "origin story" of Garamon fandom; and an interview with me on the topic of Garamike, conducted by my sister Sara.

Check out the opening spread- Jason Edmiston was kind enough to let us use his jaw-dropping "Garamon At Sunset" painting from GARAMANIACAL!

I have yet to get my own copy in-hand- this is truly HOT off the press- but it looks like this mag is CHOCK-FULL of greatness... here's another teaser shot, courtesy of August Ragone:

Words fail me.

LOVE.

Gary & Semi-Ningen ParaBabies by the DaiOni

Wonderful shots of these little Marmit fireplugs by the TheDaiOni:

Once again, friends & fiends, it's been too long; there are some truly incredible Gara-things to post about, and I plan on playing catch-up this week... please stay tuned!

Pygmon coin

***NOT LEGAL TENDER; may not be used to purchase sofubi.

The Gara-fishing lure

A perennial fave, the Garamon fishing lure.
I know you've been waiting forever for nice, clear close-up pics and to get a handle, at long last, on the exact measurements of this thing... so let's not delay another second, friend:

JM Rampage does Garamon

Toy producer and customizer JM Rampage recently completed this fan-freaka-tastic painting of Garamon, Jamila, and his own creation, Ugly Unicorn.  Whatta trio.  I think JM's vision of Gary could actually make a pretty fun toy...

The Nerdstrom Collection, Pt. 16: Post Monsters mini GK

Charming resin mini GK (built and painted by the estimable Thad Rhodes) put out in the early 90s by the mysterious company Post Monsters ("For adults with childlike eyes"), which produced a whole line of mini Ultra-kaiju in the super-deformed style... go ahead and embiggenate this mini pic:

Wish I was ocean size

Jesse Narens (Mr. Ghost&Flower himself, as well as the creator of the truly lovely Stegoforest resin toy) took an Eye Scream Garamon to the Oregon coast, and brought back this great pic.

The Proprietor would like to acknowledge the lack of new content here, of late; we have added a new full-time employee at Garamania World Headquarters, and her orientation is taking up most of our time (she is only four days old).


Thank you for your patience.
More to come soon.

Billiken Garamon vinyl model kit

Well, this came as a complete surprise to the Proprietor... Billiken showcased this amazing new Garamon vinyl kit on their SuFes 59 table: 

Word to Kaiju Korner and Kadomium Tank for their always-excellent reportage!

Bored?

Visit this interesting fan-page and mouse over every pic of Garamon, Pygmon and friends.

New Atragon G-K "Set 01A" companion kit to ガラモン release

Not content to release one of the finest resin Gara-masterpieces ever poured, Miyazaki-san at Atragon G-K has completed work on "Set 01A", a sold-separately companion kit to his (very) soon-to-be-released Garamon kit (new header pic is one of his awesome promo shots).

Here's a look at the kit, which features a Garadama base with nameplate, a chunk of tilsonite, alternate appendages, and some... I'm not sure... bonus (?) spikes...

And the box art... for Set 01A:

... and the figure kit itself:

Both kits limited to 100 copies; pre-order closes on 3/20!

Gary. Godzi. Trucks.

A photoplay adventure.

Wonderfully fugly felt and lace Gary

Now you too can appear as if you have a fungal Garamon sprouting from your chest...

From here.

Garamania & GARAMANIACAL stickers are here!

These fantabulous 11” vinyl stickers (made by the good people of Sticky Brand) of Walter Parenton’s two terrific Gara-logos are now available for $4.00 each, mailed anywhere in the world.  Paypal can go to manordstrom@gmail.com; be sure to specify in the body of your Paypal message which of the three styles (Garamania, Garamania Diecut, or the amazing two-for-one goodness of GARAMANIACAL) you are ordering, and quantity of each.  Due to the insane level of busy-ness in prepping for all things GARAMANIACAL, I ask that online buyers allow 2 to 4 weeks for shipping.  These stickers will also be available at GARAMANIACAL!

  

Mr. Atom Gray enters the GARAMANIACAL coloring contest

Two beauteous hand-colored GARAMANIACAL coloring contest entries received from Atom today (you gotta embiggen):

YEAH!

The Becoming... 11 days left...

3 of about 222...

Getting down to the wire with the Kickstarter fundraising... huge thanks to those who have backed the project so far!  I greatly appreciate it!  Progress is being made, and Garamike is going to be nothing short of *AMAZING* in looks and performance (ultra-expressive and very durable)... but costs (latex, foam, epoxy resin, alginate, platinum silicone, special paints and thinners, Ultracal, labor costs for the mask-sculpting and painting) are mounting!  Please have a look at the Kickstarter page; there are some great Backer Reward packages.  I hope to have mock-ups of the two different t-shirts backers will be able to choose between very soon.  Any bit of help in bringing this thing to life would be greatly appreciated; thank you very much in advance for your support!

Four more great additions to the GARAMANIACAL roster!

Amazingly, the show roster has grown a bit more!
We're now up to 40 contributing artists!
Toybot Studios/Kirkland Jue and Michael Skattum both got on board almost a month ago now; I added their names to the original GARAMANIACAL announcement, but just wanted to bring it up here, too.

Last week, we added Northampton's own Rob Kimmel (have a look at his great father-son daily comics blog, Wander Monster, too) and rising street art phenom Street Grapes (maybe you've seen his stickers in any given East Coast city... or in Sao Paulo...).

Stay tuned, Gara-fans!

Oh... have I mentioned...

...that there's a GARAMANIACAL COLORING CONTEST?

There's a GARAMANIACAL COLORING CONTEST!!!

WIN AMAZING GARAMON TOYS!!!

HAVE YOUR GARA-ARTWORK ENTRIES SOLD AT FOE DURING THE RUN  OF GARAMANIACAL, WITH ALL PROCEEDS SUPPORTING THE GREAT AND CRUCIALLY IMPORTANT WORK OF THE MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN!!!


GO!!!


Sorry for yelling, dudes.
I'm just excited...

Double Walters On The Dime

I have to take a minute to mention that there are two great Walters participating in GARAMANIACAL: header card/video art master Walter Parenton, and someone who just got on board in the last few days, the esteemed sculptor Walter Chauskoskis.

The severely kickass new Garamania header logo above? Walter Parenton delivered that magic, as well as a GARAMANIACAL version that you’ll see here and @ FOE, as we get closer to the show. Full Garamonic salute to Mr. Parenton; awesome work, man.

Chauskoskis has been on fire for a while now; he is perhaps best known for being the clay-pusher being the figural realization of Jeff Lamm’s Greasebat.  (Have you seen his recent Kung Fu-stance, betailed Greasebat custom? WOW…) Walter C. is a major fan of Garamon, I’m delighted to have him on the roster, and I can’t wait to see what he does!

GARAMANIACAL opens Friday, February 10th at FOE Shop & Gallery in Northampton, MA.
Be there as this cozy little corner of the Northeastern US becomes the center of the Garaverse!