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Former Pittsburgh Mascot, Partner Design Plush Toy in Hopes of Starting Trend.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2003
By Joyce Gannon, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 21--Tom Mosser considers himself more ...ualified than most artists to create a line of colorful dolls that he's betting will become a collectible craze.
After all, the 43-year-old painter and illustrator spent seven years practically living inside a furry, lime-green bird costume from 1987 to 1994 when he was the Pirate Parrot, the city's baseball team mascot.
"I was paid to be a plush toy," said Mosser, who with partner David Noble created the dolls they call Bite-ables. They fit in your palm and feature Velcro mouths so that they will stick to backpacks, bikes, hats, clothing and computers. The first four characters in a series the partners plan to...
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