Archie McPhee

Growing up, Craig was a big collector. He collected matchbox cars, stamps, shells, stickers, Star Wars action figures. "You name it, I collected it," he tells me now.

By the time he entered fifth grade, he started collecting what he and his friend Joe referred to as "Creepers." He recalls: "These were basically rubber skeletons and animals--frogs, lizards, snakes, bats, bugs--and we treated them like action figures and played creeper games and created a whole universe like Dungeons and Dragons."

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