Huck Gee

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Mark Gee (born May 19, 1973 in Newcastle, England), better known as Huck Gee, is a contemporary artist, illustrator, toy maker, and designer best known by toy enthusiasts for his iconic "Skullhead" character. He works and lives in San Francisco, CA.

Contents 1 Life & Work 2 Designed Toy Releases 3 Toy Series Participation 4 Customs 5 References

[edit] Life & Work

^[1]Huck moved to San Francisco in the early 90's pursuing the venerable life of a b-boy. Maintaining day jobs that expanded his artistic vocabulary; he spent his nights testing his skills, and his weekends searching for inspiration. Graphic design by day, graffiti by night, studying Miyamoto Musashi on the weekends. Completely self-taught, he later culled his skills as an illustrator, allowing him to explore more commercial art styles and delve into the alluring world of Japanese and Hong Kong pop art, creating a style described as "Bastardized Asian Pop Culture". ^[2] The demand for his illustrations and custom figures has grown quite immense. With small runs of original prints and hand crafted custom toys selling out in seconds online and shipping to art collectors worldwide. Huck has released numerous production toys through Kidrobot including figures for The Standard and DJ Qbert. In 2005, Huck Gee released the "Skullhead Project", a joint project between Kidrobot and Barneys New York in conjunction with five top fashion designers: Marc Jacobs, Jil Sander, Dries Van Noten, Rick Owens, and Duckie Brown. With this project, 12" figures of Huck's Skullhead character came immaculately dressed in the 2005 spring collections of each of the five fashion designers.^[3] In October of 2007, Huck's 2nd original figure, "Akuma Bomb" was released.^[4]

Not to be confined to the role of just toy designer and illustrator, Huck has also leaped into the fashion industry. With dozens of new pieces being released through Kidrobot he also recently launched a line of jewelry with Random Nature and has his own clothing line in production to be unveiled in 2007.

Maintaining a full schedule with signings and events planned worldwide, new prints, even more custom figures, and numerous new toy designs for Kidrobot, Qbert, ToyQube, Toy2R, Circus Punks, and Play Imaginative Huck Gee is expected to keep growing.

When not busy planning world domination Huck spends his free time chasing skirts and pretending to be a race car driver.

[edit] Designed Toy Releases

These are toys that Huck has designed

Bootleg^[5]
Puto^[6]
Skullhead^[7]
Akuma Bomb^[8]

[edit] Toy Series Participation

These are toys that Huck has lent his design skills to^[9]

Kidrobot Figure - 7" Kidrobot 14, Kidninja white, 1000 pieces, 2008
Kidrobot Figure - 7" Kidrobot 14, Kidninja grey, 1000 pieces, 2008
Dunny - 3" Miami Skullhead, 2007
Circus Punk - 14" X-Rated, 2007
Dunny - 3" Series 4 Chase Red, 2007
Dunny - 3" Series 4 Chase Yellow, 2007
Dunny - Blue Hello My Name Is 3", 2007
Dunny - 8" Red Hello My Name Is, 2007
Dunny - 8" Geisha, Pink Flower Edition, 300 pieces 2007
Dunny - 8" Geisha, Red Flower Edition, 300 pieces 2007
Dunny - 8" Shogun, Red Edition, 300 pieces 2007
Dunny - 8" Shogun, Blue Edition, 300 pieces 2007
Sharky - Mitsubishi Zero with bomb, 150 pieces 2007
Sharky - Flying Tiger with bomb, 350 pieces 2007
Dunny - 3" Tan Qbert, 2006
Dunny - 3" Blue Qbert, 2006
Dunny - Series 3, 3", 2006
Trexi - 3" We All Speak Football, 2006
Trexi - 10" & 3", Gold Life, 2006
Trexi - 3" Giggles, Red Ninja, 2006
Kidrobot Figure - 7" Kidrobot 10, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, 800 pieces each, 2006
Qee - 8" Mama's Boy, Glow in the Dark, 400 pieces 2006
Dunny - Series 2, 3", 2005
Dunny - 8" Donyoku, 2005
Dunny - Series 1, 3", Ratio 1/12, 2004

[edit] Customs

These are one off customs in very limited quantities by Huck on various platforms.

Dunny - 8" Skullhead, 10 pieces, handpainted, 2008
Dunny - 8" Shamisen School Dunnys, 10 pieces, 2008
Munny - 8" Skullhunter, 10 pieces, 2008
Bocky - for the Toy Saves Children show, 2007
Dunny - 8" Long Tailed Night, Raku, 10 pieces 2007
Dunny - 8" Long Tailed Night, Kitsu, 10 pieces 2007
Dunny - 8" Raku "Good Morning" Narazumono, 10 pieces 2007
Dunny - 8" Lucky Taiko - Black Taiko, 1 piece 2007
Dunny - 8" Lucky Taiko - White Taiko, 8 pieces 2007
Dunny - 8" Lucky Taiko - Gold Taiko, 1 piece 2007
Dunny - 8" Hello Dunny Maiko - 4x different coloured kimonos, 10 pieces 2007
Dunny - 8" Lone Wolf & Cub 2006
Dunny - 8" Munk Dunny, 4 pieces, 2006
Dunny - 8" Winged Ninja Dunny, 4 pieces, 2006
Dunny - 20" Munk Dunny, 2006

[edit] References