PETERKATO

Ghost Butler, he's Happy to Serve...eternally.

Loyal & Polite Ghost Butler will never leave your side, he was made to be that bring along toy companion. He comes from that side of my imagination that birthed other ghoulish figures in the past like FrightBite & Kawako. He is a mix of the old bedsheets ghost & a bit of a Casper anatomy ( although I've imagined his roundness to look more like Alfred Hitchcock than others) . I have always loved ghosts toys, collected old ones from Kinder Egg collections to more recent arttoys such as Boo...

NY Comicon is here again~( Oct 11th~14th) & for the last few months I have been preparing for it.

Here's a look at brand new sculpted items as well as classic figure new variants, hope you enjoy~

TAKO-CUBEs : sized at 1.5 inches in height these guys are the grunts of the Space Army series I am beginning to flesh out starting this month. They are small and tough but not too bright they are commonly used as cannon fodder in battles. They are more dangerous in numbers and as a...

 So my daytime job is at this artists studio in NY called John Derian Co. where we focus on producing handmade decoupage plates, platters, paperweights, coasters and bowls . His designs are sold at upscale home stores, in catalogs, and gift shops worldwide. It's a wonderful place to work where the people are very good to me. I get to assist in design & production and have learned many unique skills that I otherwise would not have gotten to learn had I not worked here. Artist HealeyMade actually worked here first( as one of the skilled artisans in production) & got...

 Here are some pics sent to me from SDCC 2012(GiantRobot booth #1729). Wish I were there this year but had to focus everything for some future Productions.

Along with the GiantRobot Turtle Tetsujin exclusive , there are also Tasty Rainbow editions of my other figures & free pins with purchase available at the booth.

Tasty Rainbows~

And free with purchase peterkato x giantrobot pins~

Also I was asked by Toysrevil to give a top-ten toys from SDCC wishlist. Checkout...

Now , I haven't tried to do a haiku in like, a million years but I recently saw one of my favorite instagram accounts(mohojung) post an amazingly cute picture. Which inspired me. She titled her photo "philosophers' soba"

あつい　なつ

ひやし　そば　たべ

カワコ　すき

hot summer

hiyashi soba eat

kawako loves

Let's have a great summer everyone!

 Here are two wonderful instagrammers that were nice enough to make fan art of my characters:

First up is Bodz Zaman ( IG handle: bodzilla ) who loves to draw( like me). Here is his drawing of FrightBite floating through a forest scene:

Next up is an amazing IG collage-weaver mo LaPastequeBleue( IG handle: mohojung ), I had never scene anything like her work on IG before & I'm so lucky that she likes my characters enough to incorporate them into these great little fantasy scenes. Her themes vary from comical to...

 We're finally here & the discounted Blue Harvest stock is all here~! This sale is the first of a "Memorial weekendish Annual sales event", the only difference with this sale is that the stock is all new specifically made for he theme! Enjoy~

 I wanted to showcase a few special pics that I had received recently. Some are pics from customers kind enough to send me pics in their locales, others are creative postcards of artwork! Thank you to all who take the time to do this, I really appreciates it! 

This was a Jet Black FrightBite that made its way to Mexico City! I love this shot because it was shot in the main square of the city & it brings me back to when I got to visit this wonderful place. 

 Man-E-Toys one of the newest toy-blogs has just posted their 500th post & lucky me it was about the Cherry Blossoms series! I was also lucky enough to be their very first article ever. Much love to the toy-bloggers out there, they make making friends easier in our toy community!

http://man-e-toys.com/2012/04/16/man-e-news-the-remember-the-cherry-blossom-resin-series-from-peter-kato/

 Andy at Toyrevil posted a great article on the Cherry Blossoms series!

http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/2012/04/remember-cherry-blossoms-series-from.html

http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/2012/04/remember-cherry-blossoms-series-from.html

 Yeh~ nice write up on Vinyl Pulse about the Cherry Blossom series~ ( Pink Kawako is sold out!)

http://www.vinylpulse.com/2012/04/peter-kato-cherry-blossom-edition-resin-figures-available-now.html

Here are the "Remember the Cherry Blossoms" series to celebrate the beautiful explosions of cherry blossoms that have been blooming all over these weeks. In this series we have three members each sold separately. 

First there is : Cherry-Jelly Turtle Tetsujin, cast in clear pink with hand-painted highlights. Also each torso has hand painted cherries with the staple clear resin to seal it in.

Second we have: Pink Kawako. He will be available in two grades of clear pink. One in pink & the other in light pink.

And lastly we have : Pink Sky-Cry from the...