"But it's no good to be useless, so in time we should loosen the nooses we tied just trying to be human..." & "...and I wish you could keep me away from myself until morning..."
set of two 12x36" eleven color screenprints with a metallic flake overprint.
my post-art plan is opening a grilled cheese cart. it will serve $1 grilled cheese made with white bread, bulk cheese, bulk butter, and thats it. greasy as hell. no options, no artisan, nothing. there will be no change. you give me $5 youre getting 5, you figure your own life out
the netflix navigation system is like if you were walking down the hallway of a gigantic endless hotel just trying to find your room but every time your eyes even *passed over* a door someone karate kicked it straight into the hallway while screaming.
listen, the "Wonka Experience" thing is hilarious front to back. but its also extremely telling of what kind of companies/people use AI generative images, those with not a lick of imagination or care, lazy dead-eyed mouthbreathing shortcut-trufflepigs.
"but are they going to be good?"
theyre going to be exactly like the zillion grilled cheeses your somewhat absentee parents made for you as a kid so yeah, youre probably gonna have a lot of feelings about them good and bad. i will use alot of butter, ill say that much.
the business and cart will be called "$1 GRILLED CHEESE", with not a lick of irony or cleverness. it will be in IMPACT font, black on cheese yellow. i will decimate every other food truck or food cart out there.
its 1am, youre stumbling out of the bar or show. what do you want? do you want to wait outside some asinine truck for a $12 deconstructed grilled cheese with avacado relish that takes 20 goddamned minutes? or do you want 5 no bullshit grilled cheeses stacked in wax paper for $5?
Lotta people telling me they're going to steal this business idea and all I can say to that is if you need to "steal" the idea of selling $1 grease sandwiches you probably shouldn't be your own business partner.
its like a 10% cost of product when you aim low as i will aim quality wise and a built in upsell because, once again, i do not give change. money goes into a slot and thats that. figure your shit out.
also my cart will have a boombox cranking doo-wop classics.
Worst part about this is someone named Chad is gonna steal this idea and theyll make a lame logo with like an axe crisscrossing a spatula and then theyll start a kickstarter for a $80000 truck and the moment someone is like "you should add this hemp mustard" they will cave...
you get a free grilled cheese if you give us a one star yelp review that says theres no tomato slices and we refuse to give change so you ended up with 20 grilled cheeses because you had just hit up the ATM.
id like to introduce our mascot, hes an over educated twenty something struggling to pay off his student loans and will never be able to afford a house so hell be stuck in the rental cycle until his second wife, who has a good job, who currently wears a sandwich costume for money
TOP GUN MAVERICK is 50% fighter jets doing insane shit and 50% tight shots of jennifer connellys face absolutely smouldering making TOP GUN MAVERICK the most important film of the 21st century.
One hundred stars.
on an unrelated side note, did you all know you can just slather mayo in place of butter with grilled cheese and its pretty good because its just sort of a flavored oil? you know, if the darkness inside takes you to that place.
It's crazy to think that in only a few short years I'll be shooting one of these in the face with a shotgun in a war-torn abandoned Walmart scavenging for canned goods.
Giving people any choices slows everything down; the line, wait time, prep time, getting people the correct order, everything. I want the currency in your wallet to be the only variant once you're in line. My model is "One thing, done just ok, but dirt cheap so you dont care."
Ok let's go thru this bullshit Funko statement because it's 11:30pm, I'm mad and extremely sober but full of double stuf oreos.
First and foremost the "taste makers" you were "obsessed" with who were "always on the pulse"? bad news, you just fired them.
2. apparently y'all want drinks. once again, i will provide a garden hose for cleaning, drinking, and spraying troublemakers.... having drinks means bags of ice and a huge cooler taking up too much space and heavy lifting at costco and i fell off a cliff once so nuts to all that.
ok, a few thoughts...
1. according to the comments i will have my $1 grilled cheese truck, and next to my truck will be roughly 400 $1 tomato soup trucks trying to leech off me. the whole place is gonna smell goddamned terrible, the air literally humid with tomato, so please dont
a bit into THE SHAPE OF WATER i whispered to my wife "im gonna draw this movie so hard", then
@RealGDT
gave me his blessing, so i did. i put my draw all over it.
this tweet is overtly sexual by nature because lets not pretend that film didnt shimmy your jimmys.
#SDCC
@MondoNews
4. Stephen King backed my idea. he wrote MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE, which is pretty much the spiritual point of origin for this idea so ive made necessary changes to the truck in his honor. anyways, official sandwich of
@StephenKing
. hoping he'll appear in my commercial.
3. to all those who have asked about franchising, all potential franchisees will require an internship first. its a decent amount of yardwork. its mostly yardwork. its yardwork.
as an introduction for the onslaught of newbies. my name is daniel danger, im an illustrator from the farmlands of western massachusetts. i draw a haunted and quiet and prose oriented version of the new england i see. my work is available at
2A. gonna take a brief moment to shout out my own personal mixed drink, "The Brand Loyalty", which is when you pour whats left of a lukewarm pepsi from the terminal into the free coke on ice from the in-flight crew, then stare into nothingness for 2-6 hours.
hi all. i had planned on saving this piece for a secret event i was doing in the spring thats now gone. all my events are gone. all my jobs are gone. im very flustered, so here it is.
"to all that come to this happy place..."
24x36" 10 color screenprint
artist: "my work is being monetized in a way i did not approve and im not ok with that use."
crytobros: "you are stupid and disrespecting your fans and should stick to traditional art if you dont let us do what we want."
id like to introduce my flattop spatula and butter machete, it offers a level of protection and multi-use functionality to the grilled cheese truck while making me look like a halfway decent badass.
I dunno who this tweet is for but The Boxcar Children only lived in a box car for like a single book yet spent multiple novels living on and running a straight up *uranium mine*, so I argue a franchise name change is in order? Anyways, the mystery of Mystery Ranch is Uranium.
throwing it out there to whatever dipshit bought the domain "" that the guy posting about a $1 grilled cheese cart *PROBABLY* isn't going to pay your domain name ransom. you didn't exactly head off the next mcdonalds here.
ill fucking .net that shit, chad.
Funko effectively decimating MONDO by firing the creative old guard of Rob Jones, Mitch Putnam, and Eric Garza among others is a fucking travesty and sheer idiocracy. End of an era, but im with them for whatever they want to do next, and I imagine every Mondo artist will follow.
Pretty much floored by FURIOSA. an entirely different film mechanically, an entirely different film emotionally, while simultaneously escalating the absolute whatthefuckery of the action sequences. It's arguably the better film yet makes FURY ROAD even more of a masterpiece...
You fired those people. Maybe it's only a small amount of the total funko layoffs, but half of Mondo is gone including the three guys that the entire roster of "amazing artists" are loyal to because they've been going to bat for us for 15 years. Many of us owe our careers to them
I spent like five minutes and found dozens of AI generated Lensa images with fucked up "signatures" in the corners. So they're not even trying to hide that all this shit is just pulling from real artists real work, huh?
I’m cropping these for privacy reasons/because I’m not trying to call out any one individual. These are all Lensa portraits where the mangled remains of an artist’s signature is still visible. That’s the remains of the signature of one of the multiple artists it stole from.
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True story. While on vacation my parents stumbled onto the set of the LOST pilot episode, way before anyone knew what LOST was, and emailed me pics of the crashed plane with only the words "We're ok".
I was recently doing an interview for a book and I asked the subject about a woman she used to work with, who had died years ago. She didnt have much to say, but she did offer the following: The best sex this woman claimed she had ever had, by a mile, was with Wallace Shawn.
Just a normal day where the president of the united states attacks a 16 year old kid with aspergers who doesnt want the planet to die because she got to be on a magazine cover that he was already on. Totally normal stuff by a totally normal adult man.
The Brand Logo you tossed on top of this tonedeaf memo is not a living entity, it's not a magic rock that art directs, finds cool new artists, cultivates relationships with ongoing artists and studios, nor thinks wildly outside of the box for unique matchups of property/artist...
Screenprinting at this level is HARD. it is a craft that takes YEARS to master. It's chemistry, it's pre-press software, it's color theory, it's fabrication, it's single pixel attention to detail, it's machine maintainence, it's weather, it's wrangling an imperfect medium...
Addressing/skirting the firing of Rob Mitch and Eric as a nameless "change in leadership", ignoring the specific reason people are upset, is an insult to the 15 years of work they put into growing that company. Is your clear strategy "destroy all goodwill and artist roster"?
honestly this might be one of the greatest teaser trailers ever made. no bullshitting it is incredible. do they give oscars for trailers? they fuckin should.
For the hundred millionth time. It is currently impossible to screenprint timed editions, or editions in the thousands, of every poster Mondo does. The infrastructure has been maxed out for years, and it would take multiple years to build out and train meaningful expansion.
I saw a toddler wearing a NIRVANA shirt so I got in his face and demanded he name three nirvana songs and he went with a couple deep cuts; 'aero zeppelin', 'downer', and 'I hate myself and want to die' with a bonus of their cover of Greg sage's 'return of the rat'. Respect.
a decade ago Scott came up to me at an event, shoved the SESSION 9 DVD in my hands, and told me I'd fucking love it. we talked and schemed and riffed and planned absolute nonsense pretty much every single day since. I'm so fucking sad, he was the best accomplice I could ask for.
If you're having a bad day just remember that somewhere out there is a monster truck shaped like Scooby Doo's head and it just drives around hitting sweet jumps and crushing cars while believing in you and your dreams because your value in life is no mystery.
This is a train wreck of a statement. Embarrassing. Every former Mondo artist read it, mourned, and clocked out for good. they're gone buddy. Good thing you still got those tastemakers you're obsessed with to find new artists to work with aww fuck wait you fired them! Darn darn!
"Most were 150 pieces or under" is a lie, or maybe you think that, once again proving you don't know shit about the company you bought. And the flipping someone at Mondo once told me was like 5-8% in reality. Either way, you're Funko: You do not have a problem with flippers...
"meet in secret, speak in code"
a diptych pair of 24x36" 7 color screenprints, because someone told me i should make smaller prints and i'm a contrarian by nature. i want your whole goddamned wall.
this print, and many other personal pieces, coming soon. xo
There are printers who can tell you which certain colors require more drying time on the rack. You cannot throw money into thin air and create trade experience. All you COULD do is steal existing printers from established shops oh wait shit they all love Rob Mitch and Eric. Dang.
SPIDER-VERSE is straight-up landmark game changing animation. its insane how amazing that movie FEELS to watch. you know those "THE ART OF ___" books with all those lush and varied early concept paintings & drawings, all loose and full of heart. its that for 2 hours and i cried.