Where’d the idea to redraw comic strip logos as metal logos come from?
I do a lot of gig posters and realized most of my posters have superwimpy lettering. I do these big, colorful illustrations, and I get afraid to make the text ornate since it might make the whole thing too busy to read. So I was basically just looking for some text to practice my writing on, and using comic strip titles seemed funny at the time. Were you a graphic design major or something? Tell me about your evolution from person to person who liked art and comics to a person who makes comics and art. I’ve always been drawing cartoons. I got picked on a lot growing up, so all my early comics were just these dinky revenge cartoons. It wasn’t until high school that I realized I could possibly turn drawing into a vocation. I didn’t have a fake ID and didn’t have any money, so I started doing gig posters as a way to get on guestlists for concerts. After a while, I started to actually charge money. I liked that “Dogs in College” comic where they talk about being exclusively attracted to te
