A VISIT TO WB CONSUMER PRODUCTS

A couple weeks ago I went to visit my

good friend

Kathleen Wallis

at Warner Bros

Consumer Products.

She used to run all the 

KND

licensing until 

Cartoon Network

opened up their own division.

Consumer products,

if you didn't know,

is all about

STUFF:

Toys

Shirts

Mugs

Hats

Commemorative plates

Keychains

Tortilla Warmers

Throw pillows

Model kits

Decorative swords

Novelty Ice Cream

YOU NAME IT!

If they can sell it,

they'll make it

because

MONEY!

The lobby was

rockin' it

straight up 

Batman

style:

With lots of Legos:

But in the upstairs lobby

they went

full-on

Man of Steel

and

Looney Tunes:

All this came from a

private collector

who's spent decades 

collecting this stuff:

 I would have taken more pictures

but the

Superman

pogo stick

creeped me out:

Awesome stuff, right?

A DC COMICS GUIDE WITH STYLE

I gots a lotsa books:

Not like

Mr. Sedelmaier

gots books:

But I got books.

Like these:

WAIT, 

WHAT'S THAT UP TOP?

Oh, that?

That's

THIS:

The 1982 DC Comics

Style Guide.

I found it in a used-book store

in White Plains

many moons ago.

For ten bucks!

I KNOW, RIGHT?!?

RIGHT?!

For those not familiar,

a style-guide

is given to licensees

to set a standard for how characters are to be drawn.

A licensee can either use

the artwork right out of the book

to put on t-shirts, keychains, mugs, etc,

or use them as model sheets for their 

own artists to create new art.

(although that artwork has to be approved

by the company creating the style guide)

The artwork in

this guide was created by

the mighty

George Perez,

who knows a thing or 

two hundred thousand

about drawing comic books.

UPDATE

there's a comment below claiming

that Mr. Perez only did the Teen Titans section 

and the rest was drawn by

Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez

(which looks to be true)

Being from the early eighties,

it's a bit dated:

Here's an example of Lois nowadays:

 I know, right?

Anyway,

the binder is filled with

really fun 

and

cheesy

stuff:

 Such an awesome score.

But to be completely honest...

I've always been a

Marvel

guy.