Captain Jack

Funko Dorbz is a line of collectible vinyl figures produced by Funko, best known for its pop culture-inspired toys. Dorbz figures are characterized by their adorable, round, and chibi-style designs, offering a softer and more playful alternative to Funko’s iconic Pop! figures, which have a more angular, exaggerated design. Dorbz figures have a distinctively round and soft appearance, with big eyes and simplified, cartoon-like facial expressions. The figures are designed to appear cute and friendly, making them appealing to collectors who enjoy more approachable, whimsical designs. The lack of sharp angles and exaggerated features gives the figures a unique, gentle charm. U.S. artist Mike Leavitt is the CEO, sole employee, and manufacturing machine of Intuition Kitchen Productions: a one-man company of fine craft, sculpture, portraits, painting, performance, education, architecture, and animation. An extreme boredom for “normal” art has pushed Leavitt into a variety of undefinable projects that cross between art and product, from ornate objects to curio kitsch. Since quitting Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute of Art as a freshman with a 4.0 GPA in 1997, Leavitt has been busy. Leavitt’s “Art Army” action figures are hand-made one-off “toys” depicting the surly band of marauders that’ll one day take over the earth. Spanning a range of historical subjects from Van Gogh to Tupac, Leavitt has stop-motion animated the articulating figures into movie shorts. The figurative format also shifted to include custom wedding cake toppers, now a lucrative side-project. His “Hip Hopjects” are nostalgic throw-backs to ’80’s ephemera, with classic shoes, tapedecks, and other accoutrements replicated to exact specifications with cardboard, brown paper bag, and other such trash found in the street. The “Penny Places” are an ongoing series of “lucky” pennies (U.S. 1-cent coins) found in the street, painted with tiny landscapes to depict the exact location where the penny was found. “ArtCards”