What the Fuck Is Geedis!?
Comedian Nate Fernald came across Geedis pins and a forgotten fantasy universe while he was searching for pins related to the band The Jam.
The pin was in the likeness of a hunched brown monster with crazed green eyes, labeled simply, “Geedis.” Nate bought the pin since he was fascinated but couldn’t find any information on where this strange creature was from. He contacted the sellers who were unable to provide him with answers either.
He finally took to twitter where someone pointed him to a picture of a sheet of stickers featuring a detailed illustration of Geedis, as well as additional characters, labeled “The Land of Ta.” (bottom left)
Now that he found out where Geedis came from, he had to figure out what The Land of Ta was. After Fernald posted the stickers to his Facebook page, a couple of other sticker sheets that appeared to be from the same series turned up. One sheet is labeled “Women of Ta,” (bottom right) and features variations on the well-worn fantasy theme of absurdly-busty-female-warrior-monsters.
Small print on the sticker sheets indicate that The Land of Ta was created in the early 1980s by a company called Dennison Company, which is today known as the adhesive label company Avery-Dennison.
Taken all together, the designs and character names seem to hint at some lost or forgotten fantasy franchise. No other information can be found on this and it remains unexplained.
UPDATE:
It has recently been found out that the artist behind Geedis is Sam Petrucci. The origin of the pins and “The Women of Ta” still remains unsolved.
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