Voltaire: Deady News

Voltaire's San Diego Comic Con update:

"I flew out to San Diego comic con this year to sign the Deady /Stitch toys by Mindstyle at the Toy Tokyo booth. I met a bunch of awesome people, some hardcore Deady fans, some just fans of designer vinyl.  And of course, in keeping with tradition, I hopped up on the table and sang some songs.

At this show I unveiled the latest DEADY item, a fleece hat by Grapevine Fires.  Each hat is hand made. They sell for $30. You can see one here being worn by a lovely lady named Ashley who came by the booth. We will likely have those for sale here on Deadybear.net at some point soon.

 

I also stopped by the Monkey King booth to see my friends there. They apparently have a new platform toy that's a series of animal faces. They were having people customize them right there on the spot, so I asked if I could do one. I made a DEADY of course!  

 

I also swung by the Skelanimals booth to see the sneak peek sample of the Toy2R line of Skelanimals artist series Qee figures.  I have one piece in that series, it's a monkey. I snapped a picture of it.  I'm crossing my fingers and hope that them make all of my designs, especially the bear one that looks like DEADY. 

All in a all, a fun time at the most crowded convention on Earth!"

Includes songs from the Cartoon Network show The Grim Adventures of Billy And Mandy

as well as the songs Voltaire performs on the popular on-line role playing game,

AdventureQuest Worlds!

Reserve your copy here: http://www.deadybear.net/products.html

At long last the Deady/Stitch figure by Voltaire, Mindstyle and Disney is now available!

And you can order one in the PRODUCTS section!

http://www.deadybear.net/products.html

Voltaire has been invited by Hong Kong based toy company Toy2R to be one of the artists to redesign the popular Skelanimals characters for a new line of vinyl toys. The blind-boxed assortment of Qee figures (that's Toy2R's proprietary shape) will feature each of the Skelanimas characters (Chung Kee, Dax, Jack, Kit and Marcy) redesigned by a small, hand-selected group of artists. Voltaire says, "Deady was looking bored and that generally leads to trouble, so I just let him do it."  And it shows, the figures turned in by the Voltaire and Deady camp look like Deady had a field day creating a bunch of friends (or is that "fiends"?) for himself.  Chung Kee, the bear, looks an awful lot like Deady himself, Jack, the rabbit, looks like he took fashion tips from Deady co-star Sleezter Bunny. And the rest are very much in the same vein. The assortment is rumored to be released in the summer of 2010.

 

A gentleman in Salem, MA handed Voltaire a blank "Bub" by Kidrobot when he was playing there in December of 2009. Well, Mr. V finally found some time to do this custom right! It's been added to the PHOTOS section under DEADY CUSTOMS but we won't make you dig for it. You can see it....right....HERE!

 

There is a new DEADY custom toy out there in the world. It's a "Yoka", which is a small vinyl bear made by a company called Adfunture and it's in a show put on by toy distributors DKE (the nice folks who distribute the DEADY "not bootleg" toy!)

 You can see this amazing collection of custom Yoka's (including DEADY) here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/15785058@N00/sets/72157623179621739/

Leave them a nice comment to show support for their awesome show!

 

Hey gang!

Artix Entertainment sold out of these, Voltaire sold out of these... but now you can get the Adventure Quest DEADY 8" vinyl "QEE" figure directly from the toy company that makes it.  And YES it comes with the bloody code you all are clammering for!  

Get one here:  http://www.toy2rusa.com/

See last news story of a picture of the AQ DEADY QEE 

There is a new DEADY toy in town and it is the coolest one yet! See the press release below and place a pre-order if you want one!

Comics, Toys and Games collide to form the latest DEADY "Qee" by Toy2R....

Voltaire (musician, toy designer and creator of the DEADY graphic novel series) has teamed up with one of the web's most popular massive multi-user online role-playing games to create one of the more exciting DEADY toys made to date, the ADVENTURE QUEST DEADY 8" Qee!

This Qee (by the premier designer vinyl company Toy2R) is the product of a unique collaboration. On friday the 13th, March, 2009, Voltaire (in animated form) along with his evil teddy bear, DEADY, led a LIVE, 3-hour quest on the on-line game, Adventure Quest Worlds. Players who tuned in, followed Voltaire and Deady onto a haunted pirate ship, sailed across monster infected waters and landed on the shores of Skull Punch Island in search of a cursed guitar. And all the while, Voltaire sang songs from his latest CD, "To The Bottom of the Sea".

Adventure Quest creators, Artix Entertainment, expected 11 thousand players. They were prepared for 25 thousand. After an unprecedented 30 thousand-plus players logged on to this one-time event, the servers crashed! (Hey, what do you expect on Friday the 13th?) But within moments, Artix had the game up and running again. The event proved to be so popular, that is has been added as a permanent fixture in the game and can be played at any time at http://www.AQ.com

Another DEADY mini-game made by Artix can be played here: http://deadybear.net....

The ADVENTURE QUEST DEADY 8" Qee comes in a full color box wrapped in gorgeous art from the Adventure Quest Worlds game!

PLUS! Each box comes with a code that unlocks these items in game

1) A digital Deady pet that follows you wherever you go in game!

2) Free downloads of the songs Voltaire sings in the quest!

3) And other "house" items players can use in the game

Voltaire is the creator of DEADY and a multi-media artist. A recording artist and touring musician, he has written and performed songs for the Cartoon Network show, The Grim Adventures of Billy And Mandy. He is also an award winning animator and director of shorts and station IDs for MTV, SyFy channel and others, a toy designer and the creator of various comic book series including DEADY. The latter included collaborations with some of the biggest names in comics including, Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker, James O'Barr, Roman Dirge, Gris Grimly and many others.....

http://voltaire.net/

..Artix Entertainment is the creator and owner of the games Adventure Quest, Dragonfable, MechQuest and the MMORPG Adventure Quest Worlds.....On August, 25th, 2009 Adventure Quest Worlds welcomed it's 11th million registered player.....AdventureQuest Worlds provides players with exciting adventures battling armies of monsters in real-time combat and enjoying new weekly quests alongside thousands of other real players. Players can customize their characters with armors, capes, helms, and custom-crafted weapons from the Blacksmith's Shop at any level. Players have the freedom to change among different character classes at any time, and can level-up all of the classes to the max to unlock new skills and specialty shops along the way.....

http://aq.com/

AND YOU CAN PRE-ORDER ONE NOW!!!! I am only getting 100 of these and I am putting one FREE Deady "Not Bootleg Toy" in each box that gets ordered directly from me! THis is a pre-order, but I'm told the toys are already on their way, so I predict I will be shipping them out to customers within the month!

Prices include shipping.

Go to DEADY PRODUCTS to Pre-ORder One NOW! Choose the link that corresponds to where you wish to have your toy shipped.

Greetings Deadsters!
At long last, the fan art section is up on the site! Go to PHOTOS and scroll down to FAN ART. There are two pages, so when you get to the last one, be sure to click on the next page or you'll miss out on more awesome entries! The fan art contest has be split into two categories, adult and under 18 years of age. However, in the albums they are mixed. In some cases, when I had the artist's age, I wrote it in the caption under their piece. Eventually I would like to include the age of everyone under 18 who entered, so if that's you, please email your age! Now, for the winners.... I felt that all of the kids did amazing work and it was too hard to choose so ALL "under 18 entries" win a prize!!! To claim your prize, just send an email to voltaire@voltaire.net with your name (as it appears in the fan art gallery), your age and your address and I will mail you a DEADY NOT BOOTLEG TOY for your awesome work! Congratulations to all of you and thanks for entering! <br>The winner of the adult category will also win a Deady Not Bootleg toy, and ALSO, this one of a kind sample of a seated Deady plush toy. This toy was never manufactured. The sample is just one of three made and they were all different so it's unique and very rare.


To find out who the winner is, you'll have to go to the fan art gallery and see for yourself, it's the first piece! Congratulations to our winners and thanks for your wonderful works of Deady art!
Voltaire

There is a new DEADY toy in town and for once, it is NOT a bootleg! They are only $6.66 (plus shipping and handling) and you can get one RIGHT NOW! Click on DEADY PRODUCTS to find out how.

ps: Due to the large number of entries in the DEADY fan art contest, the announcement of the winner will be delayed until Monday or Tuesday. Thanks for your understanding.

Attention Artists and Fans of Deady!

Deady's new website, www.deadybear.net , is coming along very nicely!
The photos section is filled with images of DEADY toys, one-of-a-kind DEADY custom toys and DEADY bootlegs from China.

But there is something missing! A DEADY FAN ART SECTION!!!!
And I intend to build one!

So, if you have images of DEADY that you've drawn, please send them in!
(DO NOT ATTACH FILES! JUST SEND AN EMAIL TO voltaire@voltaire.net WITH A LINK TO WHERE I CAN DOWNLOAD THE IMAGE!!!)

Please include the title of the piece, if any, and your name so I can credit you.

And to make things interesting...... in one week I will pick my favorite one!
The winner of the DEADY fan art contest will win a box of DEADY stuff including a DEADY plush toy (soon to be extinct!).

I look forward to seeing your DEADY art!

Cheers,
Voltaire

Hey Deadsters!



What do Artix Entertainment, Toy2R Toys and I have in common. Well, yes, "DEADY!" But to be more precise, Toy2R is now working on an DEADY 8" vinyl "Qee" (pronounced KEY). I designed him to look the way he appears in the Artix Entertainment min-game and also in the Adventure Quest Worlds "Skull Punch Island" adventure. He's pretty darn cute but what's even better is that each toy will come with a code inside that will allow you to unlock a digital DEADY pet in the game! So now you can have DEADY follow you everywhere you go in Adventure Quest Worlds (like I do!). There will likely be some other downloads, like perhaps the songs I sing in the Skull Punch Island quest. Stay tuned for more info. I'll post it as it comes in.
Voltaire

Deady's very own website! Here you will be able to see what Deady is up to, how his plans of world domination are coming along and what new toys, books and other things he has coming out.