Modern Toss celebrates 10 years with an exhibition
Cult cartoonists and animators Modern Toss - aka Jon Link and Mick Bunnage - are celebrating 10 years of their 'unique brand of stylishly cack-handed drawing'.
The duo, who have created iconic characters such as Business Mouse, Mr Tourette and Drive-By Abuser, are presenting a celebration of some of their work via an exhibition in Shoreditch (London) this October.
The exhibition is described as "an unmissable celebration of ten years at the forefront of the groundbreaking shit scribbling business. This two-week strut through their ten year output will feature original drawings and artefacts prised out of the Toss archives, a range of top notch limited edition prints, and some bang up-to-date shouting pictures made from touch-sensitive talking paper.
"Also on daily display will be the incredible work of idiot technology that is the 'Periodic Table of Swearing' - a four-legged talking table you can operate like a demented organist piping out swear words based on the chemical elements.
"Punters are also invited to experience what it's actually like inside a Modern Toss cartoon with The Living Cartoon, and get their face drawn by Jon or Mick (if they're about) in the specially-built Modern Toss Portrait Booth - a unique work of art you can carry around for the rest of your life unless you have plastic surgery."
The event coincides with the launch of a new Modern Toss book, A Decade In The Shithouse. The 500+ page publication features 'irreverent humour and stylish artwork, including fan favourites, archive rarities, one-off exhibitions, unpublished material and out-of-print cartoons'.
Scroll down for a timeline of Modern Toss history.
The Modern Toss exhibition will be at Forge & Co (154-158 Shoreditch High Street, London, E2 6HD) from Thursday 2nd to Sunday 19th October 2014 between 12pm and 7pm weekdays and 12pm - 5pm on weekends. On the 2nd and 16th it's open till 9pm, with Jon and Mick available to sign books.
The 'A Decade In The Shithouse' book is available to buy now
To find out more about Modern Toss click through to www.moderntoss.com / @moderntoss
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