Now With 100% More Monkey!

Introducing “Momotaro”, 6 brand-new button-badges available through prickie. When I was a kid, maybe in those preteen years – just before you learn that some people think cool rocks and giant robots aren’t necessarily the most important things in life – I collected stuff. Keyrings, seashells, giant-robot models with tiny parts, coins, stamps, unidentifiable doodads and, of course, button-badges. They’re still sitting quietly in a plastic baggie tucked into the top lefthand drawer of my childhood dresser, waiting to confer tetanus on some poor groper.

Around the end of last year, I first heard of Prickie; probably through illustration mundo. Prickie makes buttons. Or badges, Or pins or button-badges or whatever they call these things in your part of the world. They have alot of cool buttons. My first batch consisted of Raven, OmniScience, and two variations on doombot bran. I thought they were pretty cool. Apparently a few other people did too. Thanks.

Momotaro is a Japanese otogibanashi (fable) about a boy born from a peach who befriends a dog, monkey, and pheasant on his way to beat the tar out of some Oni. Oni are, depending on the story, ogres, demons, or any of a wide variety of other unwholesome nastiness. The come in a few different colors, but I liked the classic red.

If there’s a piece of my artwork that you would like to wear on a pin, let me know. I’ll see what I can do.

‘Til then, a little monkey ought to hold you over.