Questions...Shock Monster, Artwork, FM...

[Wich2]

David, Jason, and co., at CAW do a nice job, Creeper.

The fig. has a repro Mego body, Megoesque clothes, and glow hands like the Mego Mad Monsters.

-Craig

[Gillman-Fan]

The artwork in question is not in the public domain.

The Shock Monster drawing as well as all the other old Topstone mask art is owned and managed by a stock art/design firm called CSA Images.

[Mike Scott]

The Shock Monster drawing as well as all the other old Topstone mask art is owned and managed by a stock art/design firm called CSA Images.

Thanks for the info!

[Dr.Terror]

I don't think CSA owns any of the images they use, and they only have a handfull of topstone images.  Its all modified pop art.

If anyone owns the original images its Paper Magic. 


 

some of the classics, including the Shock got new line Drawings sometime in the 70's.  This could also be around the same time some of the original designs were resculpted.

[Gillman-Fan]

CSA's stock in trade is buying up the rights to old art and repurposing/repackaging them. Their catalog is enormous and only a fraction is viewable online at any given time.

Paper Magic doesn't own squat in relation to that old print material.

[BlackLagoon]

Dr, thanks a TON for sharing those images. All those masks and charecters are EXACTLY what was on the t-shirt I was talking about when in my initial question.

I cant be  100% on this ..but a few of those images seem to have made their way to a few skateboards and skate clothing companys a few years back.

[raycastile]

Charles S. Anderson Design Company collects vintage commercial illustrations to use as inspiration for their own designs, and to publish in pop art books.  They modify them a little bit, add different colors and backgrounds, flip them around.  But they don't own the original source images.  If these have not fallen into the public domain, they are most likely owned by Paper Magic, a company that probably could not care less.

[Dr.Terror]

Same reason they don't seem to care about the masters floating around.

[Gillman-Fan]

CSA does, in the majority of cases, own the rights to the original source material regardless of whether they go on to alter them or not.

I know this from firsthand experience. Many years ago, while working for a commercial print/clip art house as an illustrator, CSA admins came in and bought our entire vintage morgue/catalog outright.

[Mike Scott]

They modify them a little bit, add different colors and backgrounds, flip them around.  But they don't own the original source images.

The ones on this page (and others on other pages) say © CSA Images.
http://www.csaimages.com/results.asp?W=4&F=0001&Step=361

[raycastile]

I just get a blank page when I follow that link.  See if this one works:

http://www.csaimages.com/results.asp?W=4&F=0009&Step=1

If that link works, it will take you to their monster image collection.  You will recognize art from many products and advertisements.  They have chest illustrations taken off of Ben Cooper costumes, the art from the BC boxes, art from dime store novelty packages, Ugly Stickers characters, Topstone ad images, I think I see some Jaymar puzzle art, but I'm not sure, maybe a bit of movie poster art here and there, and photographs of known toys from Marx, MPC, Bullmark, Imperial and other companies.

[GaryP11111]

Among the images CSA claims to own are impko decals, the monster flickr ring graphics, some header card graphics (I think), the quasimodo head from the Aurora Hunchback kit ( http://www.csaimages.com/preview.asp?image=43426&imagex=464&searchnum=0001 ) and this bare disguised logo from FM:

http://www.csaimages.com/preview.asp?image=D724384&imagex=171&searchnum=0001