{"id":593,"date":"2012-07-26T17:20:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T17:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dketoys.com\/blog\/?p=593"},"modified":"2012-07-26T17:28:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T17:28:09","slug":"dke-toys-suckadelic-present-the-super-suck-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dketoys.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/26\/dke-toys-suckadelic-present-the-super-suck-up\/","title":{"rendered":"DKE Toys &#038; Suckadelic present \u201cThe Super Suck Up!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Suck-Con Postcard Back by DKE Toys, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dketoys\/7606003910\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8141\/7606003910_15855d4d2d_o.jpg\" alt=\"Suck-Con Postcard Back\" width=\"490\" height=\"720\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>DKE Toys and Suckadelic present \u201cThe Super Suck Up!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>A group art show featuring customized Sucklord Figure Editions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>\u00a0Saturday, November 3, 2012\u00a0\u00a0 9am \u2013 6pm<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Pasadena Convention Center, 300 East Green Street, Pasadena CA 91101<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DKE Toys and Suckadelic present \u201cThe Super Suck Up\u201d, a group art show featuring 50 piece customized Sucklord Figure Editions by: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billmcmullen.com\/\">Billions McMillions<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffmonster.com\/\">Buff Monster<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drils.com\/\">DrilOne<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spookypop.com\/\">Doktor A<\/a>., <a href=\"http:\/\/playge.net\/\">Ferg<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankkozik.net\/\">Frank Kozik<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moistproduction.com\/Menu\/index.html\">Jason Freeny<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/lamoursupreme.tumblr.com\/\">L\u2019Amour Supreme<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukechueh.com\/\">Luke Chueh<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/onelldesign.com\/\">Matt Doughty\/Onell Design<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/octobertoys.com\/\">October Toys<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/paulkaiju.com\/blog\/\">Paulkaiju<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stolleart.com\/\">Scott Tolleson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottwilkowski.com\/\">Scott Wilkowski<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theartofskinner.com\/\">Skinner<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/suckadelic.com\/\">The Sucklord<\/a> himself.<\/p>\n<p>DKE Toys asked each artist to customize, mash-up or paint an edition of 50 Sucklord figures each. These 3-3\/4\u201d figures will be complete with a bubble on a Sucklord designed backing card. Figures will retail for $100 each.<\/p>\n<p>These special editions will premiere and be available for sale at Designer Con, Saturday, November 3, 2012. For those who can\u2019t make it out to the annual art, toy and design convention in Pasadena, California, there will be a special way to purchase figures. More news on this coming soon.<\/p>\n<p>The Sucklord is clearly excited about \u201cThe Super Suck Up\u201d. In an official statement he said, \u201cIt&#8217;s great that I&#8217;m baller enough that all these successful artists have to make my shit for me. All I have to do is design some shitty grafix and wait for the check. I love how DKE is pimping real artists for my benefit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE SUPER SUCKLORD<\/strong> is an intergalactic hustler and entrepreneur, trading in bootleg action figures, illicit remix records, and dusted internet video. Operating from a secret facility in Chinatown New York, The Sucklord is a master media manipulator and Downtown Designer Toy impresario. He is the supreme ruler of SUCKADELIC, an evil arts organization dedicated to the production and sale of the Sucklord&#8217;s ironic, low-quality art merchandise. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suckadelic.com\">www.suckadelic.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>DKE TOYS<\/strong>: Dov Kelemer &amp; Sarah Jo Marks are Co-Founders of DKE Toys,\u00a0the largest independent wholesale distributor of designer toys, limited edition art objects, collectibles, and gifts in the world exclusively representing hundreds of artists, designers, and boutique manufacturers. DKE also curates art shows, writes books, appraises and buys collections and toy closeouts of all shapes and sizes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dketoys.com\">www.dketoys.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>DESIGNER CON<\/strong> is an art and design convention that smashes together collectible toys and designer apparel with urban, underground and pop art. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designercon.com\">www.designercon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>DKE Toys is also presenting the following events at Designer Con 2012:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Second Annual<strong><em> Suckathon<\/em><\/strong> featuring the Super Sucklord live streaming noon-5pm. Watch at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toybreak.com\">www.toybreak.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Sucklord Retrospective Art Show <strong><em>A Losing Proposition: 2004-2012<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Fourth Annual DKE Toys <strong><em>Graveyard &amp; Garage Sale<\/em><\/strong><em><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Super Suck Up<\/strong> <strong>images and news<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supersuckup.com\">www.supersuckup.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>DKE news<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dketoys.com\/blog\">www.dketoys.com\/blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sarah Jo on Twitter<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/SarahJo\">www.twitter.com\/SarahJo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Suck-Con Postcard front by DKE Toys, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dketoys\/7650962792\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7256\/7650962792_cc115da269_o.jpg\" alt=\"Suck-Con Postcard front\" width=\"571\" height=\"840\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DKE Toys and Suckadelic present \u201cThe Super Suck Up!\u201d A group art show featuring customized Sucklord Figure Editions \u00a0Saturday, November 3, 2012\u00a0\u00a0 9am \u2013 6pm Pasadena Convention Center, 300 East Green Street, Pasadena CA 91101 &nbsp; FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: DKE Toys and Suckadelic present \u201cThe Super Suck Up\u201d, a group art show featuring 50 piece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10,14,18,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-shows","category-conventions","category-designer-con","category-press-releases","category-suckathon","category-super-suck-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dketoys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dketoys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dketoys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dketoys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dketoys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/dketoys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"https:\/\/dketoys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dketoys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dketoys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dketoys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}