JIMBOB ART LAUNCHES NEW DESIGNS www.jimbobart.com Check out this year’s new designs from Jimbob Art. Beautifully full colour printed here in the UK with gold foil details. Pack contains 12 cards and envelopes: 2 x Penguin 2 x Rabbit 2 x Mouse 2 x Jaguar 2 x Cat 2 x Otter 140cms x 140cms. DOG MAN APPAREL, CARDS AND CALENDARS COMING SOON TO UK MARKET www.rocketlicensing.com Rocket Licensing, appointed local agent to manage UK licensing by The Joester Loria Group for Dav Pilkey’s Monster Island, LLC for the Dog Man and Cat Kid Comic Club properties, has announced two new UK and Eire licensees for the massively successful kids’ brand (who is also loved by quite a few adults): Bioworld for apparel and accessories and Danilo for calendars and greetings cards. Bioworld, a leading global manufacturer of licensed apparel and accessories, has already enjoyed success with its Dog Man range in the US. It includes t-shirts, bags, backpacks, hoody blankets, hats, loungewear, boxer briefs and more for the children’s, tweens’ and teens’ market, and features Dog Man and his friends and foes as well as the famous Dog Man logo in a series of colourful and exciting designs. The Dog Man characters will also take centre stage in a brand-new card range and 2025 calendar from Danilo, a leading publisher of licensed calendars, greetings cards, gift wrap and diaries. The range will launch in summer 2025. A 2026 calendar is also in development. Created by Dav Pilkey, the Dog Man books are the exciting, colourful, silly and laugh-out-loud-funny adventures of Dog Man, a new hero with the body of a police officer and the head of a dog, not to mention a large and very entertaining cast of friends, enemies, family and colleagues. The series has, to date, inspired 16 massively successful books which have dominated global sales since 2019, topping the best seller lists and driving sales of over $1.5 billion. They include the Christmas hit Big Jim Begins and the official sticker book which arrived in January. The next book in the series Dog Man: Big Jim Believes will reach UK fans in November 2025. FOR THE LOVE OF DOGS www.janeabbott.com Calling all dachshund fans! The dachshund card from Jane Abbott design will delight and indulge true dog lovers and be a perfect in-store item to stock. THE LONDON STUDIO SIGNS GREETINGS CARDS DEAL WITH CALYPSO CARD www.calypsocards.com Art licensing and design studio The London Studio is proud to announce a new licensing partnership for artist and illustrator Emma Randall, a member of its Artists Collective community. The London Studio has licensed a range of Emma’s newly released designs from her Pear Tree Press brand to Calypso Cards, an admired independent US-based publisher and distributor of premium greeting cards. The London Studio Artists Collective is a community that brings together, promotes and collaborates with over 100 of the world’s most exciting independent artists. This includes Emma Randall, whose work has just been shortlisted in the prestigious 2025 Henries Awards for greeting cards – in no fewer than five award categories! The agreement will see a selection of original Pear Tree Press designs published and sold exclusively by Calypso Cards in the USA from January 2026, as well in Canada through Paper E Clips, Calypso Cards’ distribution partner. The London Studio is now in discussions with Calypso Cards about future launches. Emma illustrates each design by hand, choosing bright colour palettes and using eye-catching intricate patterns and handdrawn typography, drawing on her years of children’s book character work to produce highly distinctive art that is very much her own. 30
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