Mortimer the Mortician - Red

And ... from Artoyz Award winning toy designer, Brandt Peters, comes an all new scaled up "limited edition" Time of the Old classic adaptation narwhal, Mortimer the Mortician. This undertaker originated from Peters' Carnies long sold out mini-series. Mortimer comes equipped with His trusty straight razor and his favorite bottle of Toxicology, embalming fluid. Mortimer the Mortician - keeping in Caskets stiffs since 1932 ... Having grown up on the West Coast most of my life and coming from a family of uber ‘antique’ collectors and artists, my eclectic upbringing was filled with a wide range of ’Pop’ ephemera. Many of those inspirations now show up in my work and stem from the backdrop of my childhood. The Subject of my paintings is a world of side-show icons, deviant Animalia, and ‘masked’ glorified cartoon alter egos. I utilize these icons and character cultures as antithetical counterparts to what we are lead to believe as being innocent and socially acceptable. Although misfits on the surface, a sense of relation is understood, secret from the public - we are all misfits; hiding behind animated personas, odd and beautifully unusual. Who is it that we relate to? The lonely little boy hiding in a bear suite, the evil lustful pool-hall wolf, the sexualized little girl who secretly wants more. The environment and its limited population are meant to conjure these questions, the viewers are confronted with fi Artoyz Originals is the main production label from Artoyz, European pioneer in Designer Toys since 2003.