Writer and filmmaker John Waters has been named an officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters. The Writers Guild of America gave him a lifetime achievement award. The Baltimore Museum of Art is naming its restrooms after him. But this week he received perhaps the ultimate honor:
John Waters is being immortalized as a Funko Pop! figure.
Funko, the company that makes pop culture collectibles including figurines and bobbleheads, announced this week that it’s bringing out a vinyl figure of John Waters as part of its POP! Icons series. That makes Waters one of the first Baltimoreans ever to become a Funko POP! (Edgar Allan Poe, who was born in Boston but died in Baltimore, is another one.)
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