Visiting Randy Martinez at Star Wars Celebration VII

Over the years of attending many different conventions, we have been able to meet many amazing creators, writers, and artists. Star Wars Celebration VII would be our second celebration to attend with Star Wars Celebration IV being our first. I remember seeing much of the artwork being advertised before Star Wars Celebration IV and some of it came from Randy Martinez an artist we had to meet because of his great art work. Over these past few years, we have been able to talk to Randy Martinez and even have him as our special guest at our own booth at Comikaze Expo. We would run into him immediately long with another great friend, Denise Vasquez while they were setting up the booth. 

We would be lucky to get a glimpse of both Denise Vasquez and Randy Martinez's Custom Darth Vader Cases for the Vader Case Project. 

Randy Martinez is known for his Star Wars paintings and prints, but he has also created some amazing Marvel paintings and DC Comics paintings as well. 

Randy Martinez signing his Star Wars Celebration VII Exclusive print for the event. 

It was great seeing Randy Martinez once again! We love his amazing artwork. If you want to see more of his works, please pay him a visit on his site, http://www.randymartinez.net/.

DesignerCon 2012 Angry Koala Gear Booth

What an amazing weekend for the Angry Koala Gear crew! We attended DesignerCon 2012 for the first time, plus we had a booth and we loved it. It was a tremendous opportunity to reconnect with many artists that we have met at previous conventions and met many new ones. A couple of artists that we love and have been fortunate to become close friends with are Denise Vasquez and Randy Martinez who would be our special guests once again. 

Matt Perez and Daniel Perez of Angry Koala Gear

Denise Vasquez, Daniel Perez, Matt Perez, and Randy Martinez

Denise Vasquez would be our featured guest who joined us for a signing for her Empowerment: Mega Fan Girl prints, who she and Randy Martinez collaborated on creating. Denise Vasquez also brought a few of her amazing customs that she had available at our booth, including her glow in the dark Dia De Los Muertos Vader helmet that always draws great attention and rightly so. 

Cthulhu Chameleon would make his second appearance at a convention after Stan Lee's Comikaze Expo and brought a few friends along. Cthulhu Chameleon changes with his environment and comes in many different colors and appearances. 

 Dia De Los Muertos Cthulhu Chameleon that Matt Perez created

Cthulhu Chameleon Custom Zoidberg was created by Denise Vasquez

DesignerCon 2012 would bring a new line from Angry Koala Gear, Sporez. Matt Perez created this new line around Pudgy Panda and he wanted to create DesignerCon's logo from the Sporez. 

Sporez DesignerCon Logo character, Pudgy Panda on right of logo, along with new Sporez characters

Sporez custom Angry Birds vs. Zombie Pig King set

Matt Perez featured many of his amazing customs he has been working on using various platforms from Kidrobot, Disney Vinylmations, and other blanks. Daniel Perez who created the Angry Koala Gear logo also created a new print, Jedi Koala, plus the return of Sith Koala and Stan Thulu prints were made for DesignerCon 2012 that debut at Stan Lee's Comikaze Expo. 

Angry Koala Gear really enjoyed being part of DesignerCon 2012 and we enjoyed connecting with new artists and reconnecting. We also met quite a few people who enjoyed our works. 

We hope to begin selling the Cthulhu Chameleons, Sporez, t-shirts, and prints on Etsy and other sites very soon. Please stay tuned! If you have any questions or requests, please email us. 

So Much More Than Our Debut at Stan Lee's Comikaze

The countdown is on for Stan Lee's Comikaze on September 15th - 16th and we are thrilled nervous at the same time. It will be our official debut at a show and we have big things planned for the event on both days. We are very grateful and honored to have a few very special guests that will be hanging out at our booth #1706. 

On Saturday, September 15th from 1pm-3pm, we will have Randy Martinez and Denise Vasquez who we admire. We are huge Star Wars fans and because of our love for Star Wars, this is how we would learn of these two amazing artists. We have followed Randy Martinez' works since Star Wars Celebration I and have loved his art from each event. His art does not stop in Star Wars, but he has created amazing Marvel paintings, and hundreds of sketch cards for many different companies. Denise Vasquez is also amazing in every way with a tremendous personality. She has many talents that include acting, writing, singing, songwriting, painting, and designing custom toys. What is amazing about these two? It could be the very first time you meet them and they treat this first encounter as if you were friends for a very long time. They have a great love for art and their pieces reflect it and they have a great interaction with fans.

Again, we are thrilled to have Randy Martinez and Denise Vasquez as our special guests and they are bringing an amazing surprise with them to the show! Denise and Randy have been working together to create something special for all the geeks. They just launched a new design titled, Empowerment: Mega Fangirl, which they are selling t-shirts, hoodies, onesies, stickers that are now available to order on Redbubble. Well we have incredible news!! We are honored to have the Official Print Release for the Empowerment: Mega Fangirl print, limited to 100 prints at our booth #1706. The prints will be available at our booth and you can get them signed by both Randy Martinez and Denise Vasquez on Saturday, September 15th from 1pm - 3pm.

We look forward to seeing all of the geeks and nerds unite at Stan Lee's Comikaze on 

September 15th - 16th. Is Los Angeles ready for the invasion?