Category Archives: Merchandise

calendar, Cephalopod, Merchandise

2014 Calendars are Here!

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The 2014 version of the Cute Cephalopod Calendars are here! For $20 plus $3 shipping*, you get a whole 12 months of ALL NEW nerdy 8-armed cuteness, including Batman, Loki, Day of the Dead, and more. If you want one for the holidays, order now, because they go fast. I accept Paypal and credit cards, but to make it easier on you all, I also put it up in my Etsy store. Click one of the links below to get started!

GET CALENDAR (Etsy link)

I WANT A CALENDAR (Same way as last year)

* shipping outside the US may be a wee bit extra. Also, shipping is only $3 no matter how many calendars you get, except maybe with Etsy because I haven’t figured out how to get it to do that.

Cephalopod, Merchandise

2013 Cute Cephalopod Calendars

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The 2013 version of the Cute Cephalopod Calendars are here! For $20 plus $2 shipping*, you get a whole 12 months of  nerdy 8-armed cuteness, including Star Wars, the Avengers, Dr. Who, and more. If you want one for the holidays, order now, because they go fast. I accept Paypal and credit cards. Click the link below to get started!

I WANT A CALENDAR

* shipping outside the US may be a wee bit extra. Also, shipping is only $2 no matter how many calendars you get.

Cephalopod, Merchandise

Stickers: Round 2

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Round Stickers – Cute Cephalopods on the left and Cute Critters on the right

1.5″ diameter

$2 per sheet / 2 for $3 plus shipping – email to inquire

I have a second batch of stickers for sale. Get a sheet of cute octopus or cute non-cephalopod critters, or one of each. I’ll have them for sale at conventions this summer – if you’re interested in getting some there, let me know so I have enough stock.

p.s. sorry about the crappy cell phone photo – it’s just to show the scale. The stickers look great, just like the original arts!

Cephalopod, Merchandise

2012 Cute Cephalopod Calendars

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The new version of the Cute Cephalopod Calendars are here! For $20 plus $2 shipping*, you get a whole 12 months of  nerdy 8-armed cuteness. If you want one for the holidays, order now, because they go fast. I accept Paypal and credit cards. Click the link below to get started!

I WANT A CALENDAR

* shipping outside the US may be a wee bit extra. Also, shipping is only $2 no matter how many calendars you get!

Convention, Fan Art, Gouache, Merchandise

Fan Art Rant

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Metroid Squid by Meg Lyman

~5×7″ gouache on matboard

SOLD

At conventions, I sometimes get requests for fan art. I am happy to do it, because it’s fun and inspiring. However, when I do, it’s always a cephalopod version of a well-known character, like a smurf or a superhero or the Metroid brain-eater thing (see above, done at a con, hence the crappy photo). I give it arms with suckers and make it “mine.” Also, it’s not my main body of work.

I was at Anime Weekend Atlanta this weekend, and it was a fairly good con. Not like prior years, but you know, the economy. The thing that bugs me about these cons (anime in particular) is that fan art is not only rampant and unoriginal, but it is exactly what the masses want. It is depressing to sit next to a table where someone is selling their “version” of some wildly popular character, which is really just that character in a new pose or with a slightly different shape – and that table is making far more sales than any table that sells original ideas. The fans love it. I don’t fault them for that, but the artists selling this stuff are at best uninspired, boring, and not growing as artists. Why should they, when they can sell others’ ideas? It is their loss, but it is sad nonetheless. Opinions?

p.s. I painted that black background and it is nearly flawlessly smooth. I had always heard of gouache’s magical matte finish, but had never achieved it… until now! Woot!