Phantom Starkiller Popsicle Art Print

Born in the mid-80's, Peter Goral's childhood was saturated by toys, cartoons and classic movies. Masters of the Universe, G.I. Joe and Star Wars all were favorites of Peter's. His father, David, showed Peter a bootleg copy of The Empire Strikes Back when he was four. Little did Dave Goral know that this would start Peter on the path to being at the forefront of the bootleg art toy movement. Always artistic, Peter had an innate ability to draw and create. He was also an avid collector of all things, especially toys.. As he became an adult, his artistic ability and his obsession with toys were intertwined through a series of paintings with his favorite characters as subjects. Unsatisfied with working in two dimensions, Peter began by kitbashing toys to make new creations. This led to him learning how to make molds and casting his own toys. Today, Peter's art is highly sought after by collectors and his contemporaries. He's shown his art and toys on both coasts and been commissioned to make art for clients worldwide. Peter's work is highly influenced by the same cartoons and movies he grew up watching. Incorporating toys and figures from many different movies Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints. Junk Fed is the creative identity of artist and nostalgist Todd S. Rogers, whose work explores the cultural imprint of childhood and pop ephemera. Based in Connecticut, Rogers channels a lifelong fascination with toys, television, and mid-century pop culture into mixed-media art, sculpture, illustration, and storytelling. Through JunkFed.com—his blog, shop, and podcast—Rogers curates a playful yet thoughtful journey through the artifacts of the 1970s and 1980s, reimagining familiar icons with humor, reverence, and subversive wit. His pieces, from bootleg toy homages to narrative assemblages, invite viewers to see nostalgia not as passive longing but as an active, creative dialogue with the past. Junk Fed’s work has been featured across digital platforms, in zines, books, and short films, continuing to resonate with fellow “pop culture zealots.” Equal parts toy art, memory excavation, and cultural remix, Rogers’ practice celebrates the joy, strangeness, and enduring power of disposable American culture.