This weekend we go to Culturapop

Thanks to our friends of Estado de Chapas, that have offer us to share stand, today Friday and tomorrow Saturday we´ll sell our stuff in the Culturapop festival that will be celebrated in Madrid.

The groups are quiet good and the ENTRANCE IS FREE. Besides, the capacity is large, so it won´t be any problem to get in if you pass to enjoy the concerts. Doors open from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. both days, though the groups don´t begin the performance till 9 p.m. If you go, come and say hello to the Tolky Monkys. See you!!

When: April 24th and 25thl. Today Friday and tomorrow Saturday. From 6 p.m. till 2 a.m.
Where: Auditorio Parque el Paraiso - Avenida Arcentales s/n
How to get: Metro: Simancas | Bus: 28, 38 y N5

View address at Google Maps

We sponsor the Spanish Freestyle Slalom Series

A month ago, in Tolky Monkys we decided to carry out a new adventure; to sponsor a sport. But not any sport. Soccer and basketball would have been secure bets and though we had offers of several big and recognized clubs we´re not going to mention, we decided to begin with a less-known sport here in Spain, the Freestyle Slalom. Don´t you know it? You better hurry up cause very soon will be a fashion. Freestyle Slalom is a discipline of skating in which participants have to get round cones in all the imaginable ways. As we think that a video is better than a few words, here you have a reference:

Battle Barcelona 2008 from roller.inside on Vimeo.

Like any other sport, it has either amateur or professional branch. Here in Spain, the professional side is carried out in the Freestyle Slalom Battle and guess what?you'll have to feel lucky cause next weekend, April 25th and 26th, is going to take place the Madrid edition. People of the whole world is registered and they will compete into the different phases of the competition where "at last only one will be alive". In each phase, they´ll show the judges, the audition and the rest of the challengers the stunts and turns up they´re able to do. And in this sport as in Highlander, in the end "ther can be only one".

For this edition, our collaboration has gone beyond the contribution awards for the winners: t-shirts and hoodies for the best. We´ve also designed the poster that advertises the event and it have been sticked all over the city.
For those of you that skates and have any interest in this sport or you just want to have a different weekend, don´t hesitate and come cause despite the main competition, they´ve organized a jumping competition and a skate session in the afternoon.

Where: C/ Catorce olivas [Polideportivo Francisco Fernández Ochoa] View at Google Maps.
When: Saturday April 25 and 26 from 10:30am till 3:30pm. [Saturday afternoon at Retiro park - Madrid]

Visit official site of the Slalom Series competition

Spring begins!! - New girls t-shirts

For you shall see that we remember all of you, here are some new designs that we have prepared especially for girls. The truth is that these designs take a longer time on our shelves, but for different circumstances, we preferred to wait after Easter for submission.

There are three new designs and a reprint. About the new designs, we used two newly created characters and the other one is a character that already exists.
They are Susto, the pumpkin, Menudo, the drunken pirate in a new adventure with the siphon whale and Carlos, a kid that lives for the cats.

As always, the printing is made by serigraphy and T-shirts are made to measure, have a 95% cotton and 5% elastane and are lightly carved, although it is not the typical shirt it pastes into your body and does not even let you breathe.

What do you think? Do you like them? We expect your comments!

CARLOS, the cat boy - View Character t-shirts

SUSTO, the pumpkin - View Character t-shirts

MENUDO and the siphon whale - View Character t-shirts

The Illustrator Notebook IV

These are some sketches of two Characters we printed on t-shirts on the past year. The first one is Carlitos Caos, the Character we used in the Second Edition of our Microstories Contest. The second one is Muerte, in this case appearing to cut off a few souls. In the sketch, you can appreciate that is an illustration that we´ve done plenty of times as the line is steadier.

CARLITOS CAOS - View Character t-shirt


MUERTE appearing - View Character t-shirt

Now, with Skype, you can talk with Tolky Monkys

We´re really happy. Several days ago we activated a new functionality in our site. It´s a little bit silly but we think is useful. What we´ve done is to implement a Skype button in the Contact page. The idea is that all of you that have a problem or a doubt related with the on-line store, might solve it at the moment.
Its use is very easy. There are two buttons. The first one is the "Call me" button. If you click on this one, you´ll do a phone call to our Skype account. The second one is the "Status" button. It indicates whether we are connected or not. If we´re not available you will read "Desconectado" and if on the contrary, we´re available, you´ll read "Conectado". We´re usually connected in normal office schedule here in Spain. This is, from 09:00 till 14:00 and from 16:00 till 19:00.

The most important issue is that this service is only for issues related with the on-line store. This means that through it, you can solve your doubts and problems you could have before, during and after making the order. We bother to recognize, but we aren´t perfect =), so maybe appears an incovenient, but the important thing is that now is easier and quicker to solve it. You´ll only have to visit our contact page and call us. Just install Skype in your computer, it´s FREE, and click on the "Call me" button. Easy, isn´t it?. A few examples in which you can use this tool:

BEFORE MAKING AN ORDER: You want to buy one of our Characters in t-shirts, hoodies, posters or polo shirts, but you have doubts before, is your first time or any issue related with the order process is not clear enough. Maybe the shipping costs. Just click "Call me".

DURING THE ORDER PROCESS: The site has failed while you were completing the order form or you have accessed Paypal and you don´t know how to pay with Credit Card. Just click "Call me".

AFTER MAKING THE ORDER: And of course, is also useful for all of you that have made an order and have had any issue. For example, the order takes too much to get to your address or the size or maybe you want a refund. Once again, just click "Call me".

So, before keeping with the doubt, call us and we´ll solve your issues for sure. We speak either english or spanish.

See you!

Great opening party!!

As we announced several weeks ago, we have a new studio. Now we are in a bigger and nicer one. Using a set expression, apparently ordinary: "Size minds". Our Characters are now more comfortable, t-shirts, polo shirts, hoodies and the rest of the stuff very well ordered and even we have plenty of space. Unbelievable!!

For those who haven´t been working in a hide-out, this might means little, but for us is the third studio and in this one we are really comfortable. We have three rooms and when people come to visit us we have to go with them to show the whole office. Is not a palace, but for people from humble birth like us, 60m2 seems to be giant. And in order to let you see by yourself, we are arranging an opening party to which all of you are invited. You can come alone or with more people, with friends, special friends or the first unknown person you cross in the street, in bicycle or flying... What matters is that you come. There will be nuts, soft drinks, beer, music and the Tolky Monkys Team.

Besides, every person that comes to visit the new studio will take advantage of very special prices: t-shirts 1*15€ and 2*25€, polo shirts per 20€ and hoodies and sweatshirts per 30€. And if you come with a Tolky Monkys´ garment, we´ll give you one of our exclusive new metro wallets.

Address: C/ Montera 9 - 2º Local 5
Date and time: Friday April 3th from 17:00 till 21:30

View location at Google Maps.

WE HOPE YOU COME!!

Microstories Contest - At last, the winners...

First of all, we want to thank everybody for participating. This includes all the readers that have written ideas, the collaborating blogs, the bloggers that have talked about the contest at their personal blogs and those of you who have twitted.

The total amount of proposals have been 15o in 9 different blogs. You can have a look at our site for the whole list of stories and winners. Besides, we have counted 27 people that have twitted and 17 personal blogs in which you have posted about the contest.

About the winners, this are our decissions:

- Hombre Revenido: Story of Duble Nuble, written at Raza Becaria
- Airikkala: Name of "Eggeater Mucus and Blind Mucus", written at Raza Becaria.

These two winners will win each of them a Tolky Monkys pack composed of 4 items to choose among the catalogue that will be released on April. Besides, there are a bunch of prizes to give away. You can have a look at the list of the stories and winners to see all the winners:

- 2 winners per blog that will get a surprise t-shirt each.
- Prizes best Blogs: We will give "Oink el Rellano" and "Viste Adecuadamente" a Tolky Monkys pack as they have been the first and second blog with more ideas among all the collaborating blogs.
- Twitter Prizes: A surprise t-shirt for mega_zoi, teeconnoisseur, adrianmanc y _Elu.
- Premios Blogs Secundarios: A surprise t-shirt for Talamaska, OFGMS, Zurmis y Thunderfrogs.

We´ll contact all of you via mail during the next two weeks.

And for those of you that haven´t get any prize, there are discount coupons for everyone:

- Proposed ideas: Coupon 25% off. It will be published at the blog where you participated. Tomorrow we´ll create it and we´ll send to bloggers of each blog.
- Twitter: Coupon 25% off. We´ll send you a direct message through Twitter with your personal coupon. Pay attention!
- Secondary Blogs: Coupon 50% off. We´ll send you a personal coupon through your blog.

If any of you don´t receive the coupon in the next two days, please write us cause maybe we haven´t taken you into account.

Thanks a lot!! See you in the next contest!!