Monthly Archives: January 2009

Copier Repairman at Archie McPhee

There are plenty of other chairs in our office, but this is where he chose to sit.

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Archie McPhee on Twitter

If  you don’t mind reading short bursts about squirrels, unicorns and ideas that get shot down in our creative meetings, you can also follow us on Twitter. Just add archiemcphee!

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Funny or Not Funny With Nai

Here is the first episode of our new web series, Funny or Not Funny With Nai. Nai has been with Archie McPhee for almost 20 years and is the person we go to for wisdom. He is also one of our most opinionated employees and is not shy about sharing what he thinks of our products.  After the many long discussions [...]

Virtual Affirmation Ball

Feeling down? Depressed? Have less money in your wallet than you’d like? Use our online Virtual Affirmation Ball to put some spring back in your step! No matter how down you get, our smiling buddy will be there to compliment you and cheer you on to success. (Or, if you’re more into “irony” and such, [...]

Archie McPhee Catalog 56, 1997

Catalog 56 was our most controversial catalog ever. It marked our move from black and white on newsprint to beautiful color on glossy paper. Believe it or not, we lost customers over this! Or so they said, we got lots of letters from people who said they were giving up on us because we dared [...]

The less we say about this the better.

It’s a bit dramatic…

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Stickman and Spreadsheets Don’t Mix

Alisha G. sent us this photo of the sign she made for her office using the Stickman Action Figure. If you don’t feel that creative, you can always download some of the backdrops we made from the Planet Stickman website. Unicorn Crossing is a particular favorite around here.

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Happy Birthday, Edgar Allan Poe!

Monday, January 19th, is Edgar Allan Poe’s 200th birthday and to celebrate we wanted to post the animated version of the comic that comes with our Li’l Edgar Figure. It’s just a simple flash cartoon we did years ago, but it’s a cute explanation of his future fears. The original comic was drawn by local [...]

Nunzilla Tattoo!

Tess Donohoe sent us a picture of her awesome new Nunzilla tattoo.  The tattoo is by Lisa Murphy and colored by Janine Ashton.  Tess tells us that she’s Irish and went to convent school which means that she has had actual encounters with Nunzillas.

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Free Web-Based Emergency Yodel Button

As a company, we feel a certain responsibility to cheer people up during difficult times. The current economic downturn, bad weather and the confusing, lackluster third season of Heroes have all contributed to our decision to release a free, web-based version of one of our most popular products, the Emergency Yodel Button. This is cloudware of the [...]