Archie McPhee News Blog of Fun

  How do we use inspiration in our work? Instead of just listing a bunch of sources of inspiration, we wanted to discuss how we use inspiration in our work. How our sometimes seemingly silly discussions/arguments about our work turn into products and how each team member changes how the group as a whole looks at Archie McPhee. Plus, lots of...

Do you hate Christmas and have a smelly car? Do we have a product for you! In this episode David Wahl and Shana Danger discuss the lost podcast episode (our best one), the Archie McPhee/Atlas Obscura event, and go over a few new products. 

 Our friend Rusty Blazenhoff stops by Archie McPhee headquarters to talk with David, Heff, and Shana! We can guarantee that you've read something Rusty has written or enjoyed something obscure that she's discovered. She talks about her work with Children's Fairyland, Boing Boing, and her own "inbox zine" Electric Dreams! (You should subscribe to that, it's awesome!) She has made a huge impact on popular...

It's beginning to smell a lot like Sticknic! The yearly Archie McPhee staff cooking contest returns with guest judges Nancy Leson and Mark Pahlow. As usual, all the food had to be on a stick, but this year we added a required theme - Bibo! In this episode of the podcast, you can hear David and Shana discuss Sticknic, surprise...

Shana, Heff, and David celebrate 50 episodes of the Archie McPhee Less Talk, More Monkey Podcast! They each look back at a favorite episode. Shana picked Bigfoot and Braco the Gazer. David picked Mark Pahlow and the Cloak of Absurdity, the story of the beginnings of Archie McPhee. Heff picked Things We Like That Most People Don't, a look at...

In this episode, Shana was on vacation, so her seat is filled by Steve Q. He joins David and Heff to talk about weird bits of pop culture from the Abominable Dr. Phibes to the Adventures of Mark Twain. Also, if you're into the whole weird scene, sign up for our new Cult of Bibo Instagram account!

In this episode of the podcast, the usual gang talks about Superfan Terri visiting the store, what exactly is going on between Bigfoot and Mothman, and how Heff missed out on having a giant chicken in his yard. The picture above is the knit Rubber Chicken Teri made for us!

  In this episode, we talk about being a question category on Says You!, Bibo's unremarkable feet, and the swell of excitement around the Uff Da Air Freshener. 

What a pleasure to have Cash, Grey, and Arlo stop by Archie McPhee for the day! While they were here Cash (son of Scott Heff) and Arlo (Son of Alastair) recorded a podcast with us. They got to taste candy, participate in a creative meeting and use the scanner. So, pretty much all around awesome.  See all the pictures of...

Mark Pahlow joins David, Shana, and Heff to talk about times we've had a run-in with "the man." Contains crank phone calls, shredded money, an angry Beatle, smoking babies, smoking monkies, and nostalgia for the dump Seattle used to have. Apologies in advance to St. Paul.  Rock stars at the dump.