Sound + Vision: Album Cover Art Show 3-21-2015

Fast approaching on March 21, Q Pop 2 will have it's Album Cover Art Show. Artists are asked to create original album cover art from any album of their choice. Any musical genre....any art style. They are asked to ignore any previously created cover art and basically pretend they are designing the jacket for the very first time.
In recent years....with digital downloads becoming more popular.....the importance of Album art has declined in popular culture. But album covers can describe and inform...and of course sell....music contained within. At their best...they become inseparable from the music.

Q Pop will also be creating a playlist of selections from albums picked by the participating artists.

Here's our selection of some great album cover designs to inspire !! Enjoy!!

DCON-exclusive Negoras + Migoras

This year QPOP is joining Designer Con. We will debut two new Migoras and 1 new Negora.
These are both very limited so when they sell out ...they're gone. Please come early to make sure you get them....
Meet us at booth # 821

Dragon Ball 30th Anniversary / Akira Toriyama Tribute Show

Q POP is extremely excited to announce an upcoming art show celebrating the legendary, Akira Toriyama. The creative mind behind mega-hits like Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball, Toriyama stands today as one of manga's most influential and successful figures. He has also contributed to the video game industry, with character designs for Dragon Quest and Chrono Trigger.

We will have Dragon Ball 30th anniversary/Akira Toriyama show (and all future shows most likely) at our second, brand new location in Japanese Village! (319 E. 2nd Street, Suite 121, LA, CA 90012) We hope that you would come share this exciting time with us.

The show will take place on Saturday, November 15th ( 7pm - 10pm). It will span Toriyama's entire illustrious career and celebrate the immensely-popular Dragon Ball Z. This show will also coincide with FUNimation's release of the Blu-Ray of the new Dragon Ball movie.
For more info & reservation please visit : our facebook event page

Q POP x Konatsuya Dai Kaiju Exhibition Openning night & Signing

Q Pop had an opening night reception for Konatsuya Dai Kaiju Exhibition on Sat June 28th 2014.
(Konatsu's first Exhibition in the U.S.A.) She invited her artist friends from Japan to do custom painted versions of her figure "Negora". Those talented friends included : Devilrobots, Keiko Miyata, Kenji Fukuda, Nekonoko, Noriya Takeyama, Rampage, Shimomoku, Touma, Yoko Sueyoshi, Yumi Moriwaki, T9G, Koraters, and Dream Rockets.

From the USA side Q Pop invited artists who did more custom painted Negoras to welcome Konatsu.
The U.S. artists included: 64 Colors, Amy Sol, Paul Kaiju, Paul Shih, Sket One, Luke Chuen, Squink, J RYU, Becky Dreistadt, Keiko Murayama, Victoria Ying, Jeff Ranjo, Miss Kika, Patrick Awa, Chris Mitchell, Tara Billinger, Fawn Veerasunthon, Magen Mitchell, Jeremiah Ketner, Mari Inukai, Lissa Treiman and Zach Bellisimo.

At the opening night party, Konatsu did 3 Live painting pieces and ,of course,  many people wanted to get them. Konatsu decided to do 3 more pieces the next day, Sun Jun 29th., during her signing.
For the signing, believe us, it not just a regular signing , Konatsu hand drew her Negora, Shibara & Kyubiros characters......as well as fan requested characters...AMAZING!!! It was only because of time that she could only can take 30 people for the signing.

We want to thank everyone who came to welcome her and made her first US visit a huge success.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


More pictures from Vinylpulse :
http://www.vinylpulse.com/2014/06/seen-konatsuya-dai-kaiju-exhibition-at-q-pop.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Q Pop X Konatsu......June 28, 2014

We're very excited to welcome Japanese artists Konatsu to Q Pop for her first U. S. exhibition.

For those of you who don't know who Konatsu is...she created the very popular cat kaiju figure Negora.  First for Max Toy....and recently, her own version.

The opening reception will be on June 28. 

Konatsu will be attending and she'll be bringing a slew of hand painted customs with her.

We'll also have guest artists painting up Negoras....

Artists include: 

Amy Sol

Paul Kaiju

Keiko Miyata

Jeremiah Ketner

Squink

T9G

Koraters

Dream Rocket

Rampage

Touma

Devilrobots

Bwana Spoons

Paul Shih

Noriya Takeyama

Miss Kika

Victoria Ying

Luke Chueh

Sket One

Mizna Wada

64 Colors

Joey Chou

Patrick Awa

Miles Thompson

and many more!!

http://store.qpopshop.com/SearchResults.asp?Search=konatsu&Submit=

http://konatsuya.blog.fc2.com/

New Konatsu Negora & Medicom Toy pre-orders !!

*NEW NEGORA & MEDICOM Toys for PRE-ORDER now!!* The first batch of Medicom figures trickled in a few weeks ago.......The guys at Bear Model are on a roll!!!... As soon as the we think we're caught up....a new batch pops up...whew!! These sofubi are super sweet though....with nice paint and solid feel. 4 new figures plus some Japan only exclusives in store only....including a couple of Kikaida figures... Speaking of getting caught up.....it seemed like it's been a while since we had our last Negora in the shop (our exclusive Hyoka version...which is now SOLD OUT) So it's about time we had some new ones coming....AND we boy...do we have some!!! Seems like Konatsu's on a roll too!! We also have her new art book in very limited supplies coming in. KAIJU BOOSKA $65 Based on the character from the popular children's sitcom and the first to feature the friendly monster Booska. Produced by Tsuburaya Production in 1966. SPACE KAIJU CHAMEGON $65 Based on the character from the popular children's sitcom and the first to feature the friendly monster Booska. Produced by Tsuburaya Production in 1966. Chamegon appeared in Episode 26th  "Chamegon Birth" and others UFO ROBOT GRENDIZER ( animation version )  $105 Based on the popular and influential Super Robot by Go Nagai. Double Harken! Anti-gravity storm! Space Thunder! KIKAIJYU GORONGO S2 ( animation version) - MEDICOM x BEARMODEL x DRAGONBOY $85 From classic anime show Mazinger Z (1972) -episode 13 "Devil's Giant Spin Attack" Kikaijyu Gorongo S2 is one of the foes of super robot Mazinger Z! *THESE ARE PRE-ORDER ITEMS AND THE EXPECTED ARRIVAL DATE IS LATE MARCH 2014. OCCASIONALLY THERE ARE DELAYS!!! Here are the new Konatsu figures!! All the Konatsu figures are available here: Negora ( Sham version) Negora ( Yukimurasaki)  Megora ( Yukimurasaki) Shibara ( Yukiasagi) Mamera ( Yukiasagi) Negora ( Yasha GID) Shibara ( Getsuya GID) All figures are expected to arrive early 2014....Sham is coming very soon....but is the most limited... We'll also have some cool Lucky Cat capsule toys.....and Konatsu's 40 page artbook collecting many of the cards featured in the box art... *Please note: we are working on our shipping rates. Some customers may get overcharged for shipping in our system, depending on what country they live in, etc... If there is excess shipping charged we will adjust for accurate shipping and handling charges. Sorry for the inconvenience while we get this straightened out. Thank you for your support.