So, one day pre-millenium, not sure when but around 99 or 00,  I was reading a magazine and there was this tiny news blurb, just a single line or so, about Tim Burton doing an animated web cartoon. There was no picture or anything. I can’t remember if it even had the title or a description. It must have it had the title, which was “Stainboy”. Not too sure. This was in the early days of web cartoons and there weren’t many around, certainly none that were done by anyone you’d ever heard of, so it seemed kind of surprising. And intriguing.

There are these times when my brain kind of goes off on its own and drags me along for the ride.  After I read that little blurb my brain did that thing… I started to imagine what the cartoon would be like and what it would be about. I did a few pages of sketches of some funny looking characters. Some time after that I went back and wrote a title at the top of the page… “Bad Kids”. I really liked those sketches and I went back to them again and again over quite a few years, doing more drawings. I knew I wanted to do something with them, but I didn’t know what.  I would think about these little characters, what they were like and how they related to each other. Then Freddy and I decided to start a silk screen business doing shirts and posters with my artwork. And a few very nice people who remembered me from my days doing comic books let me have some table space at a few comic conventions. Which started me remembering how I always would have liked self publish my own series.

Well, publishing a comic book takes some pretty hefty bucks, or maybe some pretty hefty investment bucks which I've had some bad experiences with, but our silk screen operation was a way to deliver my stories to the public that we could actually do… and do now. It was really only a tiny jump of logic from there. And the idea to self publish comics on shirts was born. The really cool thing about it to me is that every person that wears one of our shirts becomes my active partner in delivering the stories to the readers. Instead of the comics being a private, passive, one-way diversion, our SHIRT STORIES turn the wearer into the entertainment medium by fusing comics with fashion. And, everybody loves comics.