Teefury

When I was a kid, I loved the Cantina scene in Star Wars. As I got older, I've done a lot of bar drawings with creatures mixed in with real people and animals. Mostly the creatures were caricatures in some way of local barflies. I would draw them right at the bar. Local bars would use some off the drawings for fliers and whatnot. I started to realize that they are all derivative of that Cantina scene, so I wanted to do a t-shirt that showed all my favorite characters bro-ing down and hanging out.

Since Tom Spina's Cantina shirt, previously sold on Teefury, was well received by the community, The Cantina Cheers logo was requested to be added to give others a chance to have an upgraded version of the concept.

A small Philly neighborhood called Fishtown.

I've been designing shirts since high school. I remember winning a contest in school. So my shirt was worn by classmates to represent the Freshman class. It was an awesome feeling to see people walking around wearing my work. It still is.

Try to do a lot of diverse work. You learn more by trying new things.

Freelance cartooning is a dream job I have. I would eventually like to do that full-time. Or be a firefighter like my Dad.

Always the monsters. The Cantina scene and Jabba's court scene. I am not much into the empire and the starfighter laser fights and all the politics. But the monsters were definitely a point of inspiration that captivated me and left a mark on me since childhood.

Tom Waits' garage would be my ideal house.

Wild Things are definitely more vicious. I dunno though. The Doglion Muppet and Sweetums look like they could maybe give a good fight.

Hulk comics most of all. I loved to read about Hulk kicking the crap out of other monsters and the army.

I love a lot of the collective sites: 

www.meathaus.com, www.phillytoon.org, www.woostercollective.com, www.partykausa.com, www.theautumnsociety.com

The Philadelphia Cartoonist Society, my Meathaus brothers and sisters, my Dad for teaching me how to draw, and Joannie, Aaron & Brandon for putting up with me, MaryKate, Scott, and the rest of my family and friends.