Multi-color Cheech Wizard

MindStyle is a renowned art toy producer and design company known for producing high-quality designer toys and limited edition collectibles. Founded in 2004, MindStyle has become a key player in the designer toy and art toy scene, collaborating with a wide range of artists, illustrators, and designers to create unique, collectible vinyl figures and toys. The company has a strong reputation for its innovative designs and its ability to work with both established and emerging talent in the art toy community. Rotating legs. Ball joint in head allows hat to tilt. Designed by Tristan Eaton. This figure, the first ever produced by Kidrobot, is numbered on the foot. Vaughn Bode's iconic stoned wizard first appeared in underground comics in the 1960s, and became an icon through a running comic in National Lampoon magazine. After Bode's tragic early death, his son Mark continued his legacy through graffiti, tattoos and art. Mark helped Eaton with this figure. Mark Bode was born in 1963 in Utica, New York. He is the son of the legendary cartoonist Vaughn Bode. He attended the Art School in Oakland, was a fine arts major at School of Visual Arts in New York and studied animation and etching at San Francisco State University. His first professional job as a cartoonist was when he was asked to color his late fathers’ black and white strip, “Zooks, the First Lizard in Orbit” when Mark was fifteen. Since then he has gone on to work as a tattooist, graphic designer and toy designer. He also worked with Marc Ecko and PUMA designing clothing and sneakers. Mark has been an invited guest at mural events worldwide. In addition to the work that you can see in the Bay Area, he has created murals in Ireland, Paris, London, Sao Paulo, Berlin, Barcelona, Melbourne, Australia, Hawaii and Art Basel Miami. He collaborated with the renowned mural artists, Osgemeos on a mural for the back of the Warfield Theater in San Francisco. In September 2017 he was commissioned to create a mural for the opening of the worlds only urban art museum, Urban Nation in Berlin.