Day 170: KAWS

KAWS was born Brian Donnelly in Jersey City, New Jersey. He began his career as a graffiti artist growing up in Jersey City, New Jersey. Later moving to New York City in the 1990s, KAWS started subverting imagery on billboards, bus shelters and phone booth advertisements.

In the late 90s, KAWS began to design and produce limited edition vinyl toys. More toys and later clothing were made for Original Fake, a recent collaborative store with Medicom Toy. One of KAWS' early series, Package Paintings, was made in 2000. This series, entitled The Kimpsons, subverted the famous American cartoon, The Simpsons.

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Day 167: Lisa Marie Simpson

Lisa Marie Simpson is a fictional main character in the animated television series The Simpsons. She is the middle child of the eponymous family. Matt Groening, the creator of the Simpsons, named her after his younger sister Lisa Groening.

At eight years old Lisa is the second child of Homer and Marge, younger sister of Bart, and older sister of Maggie. She is highly intelligent and plays the baritone saxophone. She has been a vegetarian since season 7, converted to Buddhism in the season 13 and advocates for a variety of political causes, including human rights in Tibet.

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Day 71: Marge Simpson

Marjorie "Marge" Simpson is a fictional character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons. She is the well-meaning and extremely patient wife of Homer Simpson and mother of Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson. Her most notable physical feature is her blue hair, styled into an improbably high beehive; she is proud to have never met anyone with taller hair outside Graceland. Marge was named after, and loosely based on, Margaret "Marge" Groening, mother of series creator Matt Groening.

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Day 60: Bart Simpson

Bartholomew J. "Bart" Simpson is a fictional character in the FOX animated television series The Simpsons. He is voiced by Nancy Cartwright, and first appeared on the Tracy Ullman Show short "Good Night". At ten years of age, Bart is the eldest child and only son of Homer and Marge Simpson, and the elder brother of Lisa and Maggie. Bart's most prominent character traits are his mischievousness, rebelliousness, disrespect for authority and sharp wit.

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Day 34: Krusty the Clown (The Simpsons)

Herschel Shmoikel Pinkus Yerucham Krustofski, more commonly known as Krusty the Clown, is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons. He is the long-time clown host of Bart and Lisa's favorite TV show, a combination of kiddie variety television hijinks and cartoons including The Itchy & Scratchy Show. Krusty is often portrayed as a burnt out, addiction-riddled smoker who is made miserable by show business but continues on anyway. He has become one of the most common characters outside of the main Simpson family.

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Day 27: Homer Simpson

Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons. He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta and first appeared on television in the Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night". He is one of five members of the titular family and has become the most popular and influential character in the series. Homer embodies several American working class stereotypes: he is crude, overweight, incompetent, clumsy, thoughtless and a borderline alcoholic. Despite the suburban blue-collar routine of his life, he has had a number of remarkable experiences. He has occasionally displayed flashes of great intellect and fitness whenever the situation calls for it, and an integrity reflecting his own values, including a fierce devotion to and protectiveness of his family.

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