Teefury

When it comes to illustrations, I'm a fan of coming up with things that are simple, yet work. I have a ton of ideas in my head, and I just had to get this one out the minute I thought of it. Besides, when I did grow up, I had two pet turtles named Michaelangelo and Donatello. If you're going to get a pet turtle, it has to be named correctly, right?

Brooklyn, NY. A few subway minutes away from Manhattan.

I started practicing with t-shirt designs in 1999-2000, but I wasn't very good. When my designs came in the mail, I was like, "Oh. No. This is not good," and prevented myself from doing shirts until 2003. At

that point I completed my first year of art school, felt my skill improved enough to start printing designs on clothing again. I first made designs that I targeted to my webcomic audience, but by 2005 I branched out to make designs that I enjoyed creating, but didn't require the buyer to be a fan of the comic. In 2006 things were going very well, but it became too much for me to design, sell, distribute, handle PR, lost orders, unhappy (and happy) customers, while trying to finish senior year of college, that I retired from clothing designs until 2010, where I learned there was this wonderful world of t-shirt collectors and merchants. It allowed me to enjoy designing once again.

It's not humanly possible to please everyone. Find people that will appreciate you, and be thankful for them. Thank them as much as you can! And remember there are highs and lows with all aspects of life.

So if (or when) there's a low in your designing career, just keep going. Only stop when it no longer makes you feel happy.

I'm a pipedreamer. I work on lots of original ideas, and ideally my dream job would be to have something original I've created turn into a grand slam. I'd then run with it.

I want to say something other than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but I'm seriously blanking.

Let's answer this as my 1980s self pictured it. It is a mansion, shaped like the Turtle's Sewer Lair. And there's this huge indoor swimming pool on the bottom floor. If you dive into the pool, you'll find a hidden circular door. Swim into it and it turns into a tube that leads you into a hidden Arcade room.

Comic - Calvin and Hobbes

Cartoons - Let's just ignore TMNT already and pick something else...

Uhm... Chip N' Dale Rescue Rangers.

Movie - Back To The Future

I don't know I don't really have. Oh wait! Have you guys heard of this site called teefury.com? You see back in 2003-2006 I sold merchandise solo. I felt t-shirts was heading towards a direction of oversaturation, but then I learned about these daily sites that offer crazy low prices and work hard to promote the artist so they can find an audience that loves their voice. I think this format of selling

clothing will help rejuvenate the industry, and take it into directions that hasn't been see just yet. (I'm kind of serious here, I do think highly of this format)

Gunday Monday for collaborating with a big project of mine. If you like ska, check them out on bandcamp, itunes, amazon.com, and even spotify.

Everyone who enjoys what I'm offering? Thank you. Seriously. It is appreciated and humbling. If you like what I'm producing, please feel free to follow me on these tons of places:

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