Harry has been a very busy dude at Comic Con 2011 this year. From launching shoes with Etnies and Kevin Smith, to hanging with Olivia Munn. Check out all his exploits… Be sure to go meet him today at 4pm at the UP booth #4633. He’ll be signing chests, babies, and pretty much anything. The Dirty Hands DVD will exclusively be available, there will be Munkos, and there will be free posters.

David Choe will be making his appearance at the booth tomorrow (Sunday) at noon along with Harry.

Hanging with Olivia Munn

On the True Blood Panel

With So Cal Valerie

Harry and a bunch of semi-porn stars

Harry, Bruce Campbell and Pikachu

Harry and Taylor Lautner

More stuff exclusively at our Comic Con booth: 5 giclee prints by Jeremy Fish. 5 Screen-prints by Sam Flores and a few signed Sam Flore Blue Wygers. Come check em out at our booth #4633. Did we mention that David Choe is going to be signing stuff at our booth at noon on Sunday too?

Hey Comic Con folks, check out our booth #4633 to pick up our Walrus Pop Lighters which are available for the first time outside of our San Francisco store.

You going to Comic Con 2011? Want to pick up a copy of of Dirty Hands: The Art and Crimes of David Choe? Want to get it signed by Harry and Dave? Come by our booth #4633 Saturday – Sunday and meet them and get them to sign your stuff… Harry will be there all Sat – Sun, and David Choe will be there Sunday. Come by and say hi, and we’ll be exclusively selling the DVD the whole convention.

The free stream of Dirty Hands is still available, so check that out here while it’s still up…

We just got to see how Alex Pardee spends his time at Comic Con, via this blog post. And in the near future, all of us in the Lower Haight area where Upper Playground’s flagship resides are going to see some more Alex Pardee… things…

Alex and Master-P. Separated at … Comic Con.

Olivia Munn. Nuff said.

Craola and Pardee… never to be separated again after Comic Con.

Upper Playground has teamed up with Japan’s Good Smile Company to become the official distributor for David Choe’s “Munko” Vinyl Figures. The toys were initially seen as simple sketches on David’s blog, and now following the premiere of the physical Munko toys at San Diego Comic Con in Giant Robot’s booth, Upper Playground is the exclusive wholesaler and distributor for the line of figures.

We have continually been impressed not only by Good Smile Company’s detail and intricacy in their vinyl figures, but also by the innovativeness of their other ventures, and are very excited to begin this partnership between our two companies. The “Munko” line of figures comes in three unique sculpts: Munko, Munkosaur, and Munkette. Munko, is offered in 3 colors and 2 extremely realistic textures. Munkosaur comes in 3 color ways with one in a concrete texture. And Munkette comes in 3 unique color ways.

The figures are available in a set of all 12 toys and individually by blind-box. Both sale versions are available to the public at the Upper Playground web store, and the set is available to distributors exclusively by contacting our wholesale department at: wholesale@upperplayground.com. (DETAILED PICTURES AFTER THE JUMP)

Tyke/Witness is releasing a new line of vinyl toys called Canmans, with the first series being custom designs from  from Revok, Pose, Craola and DabsMyla. If you are at Comiccon, the prototypes of each custom toy are on display at booth #3229. We like the can/spray vinyl toys that is coming down the pipeline…

Craola keeping us all updated on all things San Diego Comic Con. Read the flyer for this news brief.

We will be holding an exclusive pre-release of some of our most exciting T-shirts this year at Comic Con, San Diego.

Five years ago, you could ask 10 comic book and illustrations fanatics who their favorite artist was, and 9 out of 10 would have said James Jean. Using that style as his base, James has evolved into one of the most prolific and sought after fine artists in contemporary art. Fusing erotic themes with fine art, Jean has solo exhibitions around the world as well as commercial endeavors with Prada, The New York Times, and Rolling Stone. In keeping with the heritage of Upper Playground teaming with the best artists of the present, James has given us images for three new t-shirts, all of which will be pre-released at Comic Con.

Also exclusive to Comic Con will be two t-shirts from Alex Pardee, who has utilized his twisted animation style to do extensive illustration work for various comics and is also fresh off of releasing his visually stunning animated series with the WB Network, “Chadam.”

Lastly will be two shirts from Pushead, whose body of work with Metallica and other heavy metal bands stands for itself, but furthermore his line work and characters have made him a direct influence to many of the prominent comic book authors today.

Currently, these tees will not be available anywhere but Comic Con at the Upper Playground booth #4631.

Sasha Grey endorses it.

Asa Akira does, too.

The new David Choe monograph, through Chronicle Books. Out this week. And David will be holding some signings. In his words,

my book should be out this week
i’ll be doing signings
at
san diego comicon
at the giant robot booth ,thursday and friday the 22nd and 23rd 12 to 2 pm
SFMOMA Thursday July 29 from 6-8 pm
Giant Robot, san francisco Friday, July 30 from 6-8 pm