Miss Minutes

An anthropomorphic clock with a wide grin, drawn in the flat, friendly idiom of mid-century American advertising mascots — the cheerful spokes-character who fronts the time bureaucracy in Marvel's Loki. The joke of the design is the contrast: a round, jolly face and stubby cartoon limbs delivering the house rules of an organisation nobody wants to be summoned by. As a household piece she works on a desk, a bookshelf or the corner of a media unit, where the big circular face carries from across the room and the pose stays legible without any painting at all. Anyone who has watched the series clocks her instantly; anyone who has not simply gets an odd, likeable cartoon timepiece. The model comes as a multi-part kit, and it suits collectors of series merchandise as much as people assembling a shelf of characterful desk companions.