Gary Baseman
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Biography
Born in Los Angeles in 1960, this first generation Polish-American artist has become one of the most recognized illustrative artists of our age. Gary received a degree in Communications from UCLA, and worked in NYC as a commercial illustrator for 10 years. His illustrations have been featured in such diverse publications as the New Yorker, Time, Esquire, Rolling Stone, the New York Times, Forbes, Blab, LA Magazine, Reader's Digest, Atlantic Monthly and Newsweek. He created the artwork for Cranium, voted "Game of the Year" two years in a row by the American Internation Toy Fair and worked as the illustrator for "I Don't Need to Have Children, I Date Them: 23 Child Psychology Techniques to Use on Boys of All Ages". He has also been featured in American Illustration, AIGA, Print, The Society of Illustrators, Humor and The 100 Show.
Although Gary has achieved reknown in many fields, he is probably most well known for his work as the creator and executive producer of "Teacher's Pet", a story based on his real-life dog, Hubcaps, which ran from 2000-2002, and was made into a full-length feature film in 2004.
Gary has received many awards throughout his career, including the Emmy for Best Daytime Animated Series, the BAFTA for Best International Children's Programme, the Outstanding Individual Achievement Emmy for Production Design and was voted "One of the 100 Most Creative People in Entertainment" by Entertainment Weekly.
His work is featured in the permanent collections of National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC and the MMA in Rome.
Designed Toy Releases
- Dunces
- Dumb Luck
- Fire Water Bunnies
- Toby
- Hot Cha Cha Cha
- Chouchou
- Midnight Magi
- Slugilicious
- Toby’s Secret Society
- High Priest Toby
- Buckingham Warrior
- Creamy
- Wild Girls
- Ahwroo
- Kazans
- Blackie the Cat
Toy Series Participation
- Dunny - 3" Swatch Project, with matching Swatch watch, 2011
- Dunny - 3" NYCC 2Tone Exclusive, 2010
- Dunny - 3" Dunny 2Tone Series, 2010
- Qee - 32" Hump Qee Dump Qee, 36 pieces, 2009
- Qee - 36" Buckingham Forest Bear, 2008
- Dunny - 3" Series 4, 2007
- Thundermutt - 1.5, 100 pieces, 2007
- Qee - 2.5" Hump Qee Dump Qee, Blue, 2007
- Qee - 2.5" Hump Qee Dump Qee, Lavender, 2007
- Qee - 2.5" Hump Qee Dump Qee, Orange, 2007
- Qee - 2.5" Hump Qee Dump Qee, Silver, 2007
- Qee - 2.5" Hump Qee Dump Qee, White, 2007
- Qee - 2.5" Hump Qee Dump Qee, Red, 2007
- Qee - 2.5" Hump Qee Dump Qee, Gold, 2007
- Qee - 2.5" Hump Qee Dump Qee, Black, 2007
- Qee - 8" Hump Qee Dump Qee, Black, 2007
- Qee - 8" Buckingham Forest Green, 500 pieces, 2006
- Qee - 8" Buckingham Forest Blue, 300 pieces, 2006
- Qee - 2.5" Ox-Op Series 2a, M.O.D Cat, 2006
- Qee - 2.5" Ox-Op Series 2b, M.O.D Bear, 2006
- Dunny - 8" M.O.D. Red, 3000 pieces, 2006
- Dunny - 8" M.O.D. Black, 700 pieces, 2006
- Dunny - LA Series, Silver, 2006
- Dunny - LA Series, Gold, 2006
- Mini Circus Punks - 6" Baby Napper, 2005
- Qee - 8" Hump Qee Dump Qee, Gold, SDCC, 2005
- Qee - 8" Hump Qee Dump Qee, White, 100 pieces, 2005
- Qee - 8" Black OX-OP Bear, 2005
- Qee - 8" Qeedrophonic White Bear, 500 pieces, 2004
- Circus Punk - 15" Nessie, 150 pieces, 2004
- Neo Kaiju - Pupik, 2004
- Neo Kaiju - Gefilte, 2004
Customs & Show Pieces
- Piece(s) for GR2 15 Years, 2018
- Card for The Art Hustle 3, 2012
- Piece(s) for Tiny Trifecta, 2011
- Piece for Playboy Redux & Playboy Redux II, 2010/2011
- Piece(s) for Small Gift, 2010
- Munny - custom for 30 Customs by 30 Friends, 2009
- Vadar Helmet for the The Vadar Project, 2009
- Piece for the Balls Out show, 2008
- Vadar custom for The Vadar Project, 2007
- Piece for The Beast Within, 2007
- Piece(s) for Baby Tattooville, 2007
- Dekoboko Boys - for the Toy Saves Children show, 2006
- Action Man Custom for Action Man 40 40, 2006
- Piece(s) for I am 8-Bit, 2006
- Munny - custom for Munny Show LA, 2005
- Circus Punks - custom for 100 Circus Punks Rule NYC, 2005
- Aniballoon - 5" custom for Touma! Touma! Touma!, 2005
- Funny Club - 4" custom for The Funny Club Show, 2005
- Piece(s) for I am 8-Bit, 2005
- Qee - 8" Black Cat for Qeedrophonic, 2004
- Qee - 8" White Bear for Qeedrophonic, 2004
- Dunny - 20" "MOD" custom for The Dunny Show 2004, 2004
- All City Style - custom for Tag the System NYC, 2004
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Production Pieces
32" Hump Qee
8" Black Hump Qee
8" Gold Hump Qee
8" White Hump Qee
8" Ox Op Black Qee
M.O.D. Ox Op 2a Qee
36" Buckingham Forest Qee
8" Buckingham Forest Qee
8" Buckingham Forest Qee
Dunny Series 4
Dunny LA Series Gold
Dunny LA Series Silver
2Tone Dunny
NYCC 2Tone Dunny
Swatch Dunny
8" M.O.D. Black Dunny
8" M.O.D. Red Dunny
Thundermutt
Trexi Series 1
Neo Kaiju Pupik
Neo Kaiju Gefilte
18" Nessie Circus Punk
Mini Circus Punk
Customs & Show Pieces
Munny Show LA
30 Customs Munny
MOD Dunny Show
for Tag the System NYC
Vader Project custom
for Playboy Redux
for GR2 15 Years
