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Publishing date: Feb 26, 2021 • March 1, 2021 • 5 minute read • Some of Fish Griwkowsky s Pokemon merch from Japan and Canada. Photo by Fish Griwkowsky /Postmedia
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This Saturday marks 25 years that childhood insect-collector Satoshi Tajiri’s “Pocket Monsters” empire first popped into our world a quarter century of the first Red vs. Blue Nintendo game co-created with Ken Sugimori. Fitting for a game centred on battling ever-toughening (yet super cute) elemental monsters, Pokemon is the planet’s highest-grossing media franchise, taking in more than an estimated $100 billion USD. With a two-decade head start, Star Wars hits a paltry $68 billion mark by comparison.
Pika performance: Pokemon celebrates 25 years from the top of the world
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Pseudo Laboratories tapes it to the next level with its three latest releases
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Publishing date: Jan 21, 2021 • January 21, 2021 • 1 minute read • Like, look at this hosehead, eh? Sculptor Ritchie Velthuis caricatures of SCTV s Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas are inspired. Photo by Fish Griwkowsky /Postmedia
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Ritchie Velthuis show: Harcourt House opens its season with a couple shows, including Ritchie Velthuis: SCTV Monument Journey of a Artist, which traces the sculptor’s years-long process and journey creating the Bob and Doug Mackenzie statue at the corner of 103 Street and 103 Avenue, taking us behind the scenes and showing off sculptures of other characters in the pantheon he’s sculpted.
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Publishing date: Jan 08, 2021 • January 8, 2021 • 2 minute read • Tim Mikula s expressionist painting about the Alahogate scandal is up at The Paint Spot. Photo by Fish Griwkowsky /Postmedia
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Tim Mikula’s painting show: Foul-mouthed yet sensuously hilarious local jokemonger Tim Mikula is every day creeping towards infinity with his Endless Portrait Project having produced over 6,000 paintings of faces in four years, many a day.
During this time, he has gone from elementary-school “faux abstract” to being a legitimate expressionist heavyweight. Hard work pays off, he also sells respectably. His new show at Paint Spot demonstrates another limb of his work, his regional political hellscapes at @ABLegGiftShop on Instagram, with a