Interview by Rachel Gottesman

You've finally been printed! Congratulations! I know it's not one of your more controversial pieces, but perhaps the world isn't man enough for bear bottom women just yet... One day though. It'll be bigger than Hello Kitty.

Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaanksssssssss!!! ^-^

I'm a fan of the well-executed hand drawn look and you are like a champion of the nicely scanned image. What's your favorite medium to work in (glitter?) and why do you prefer that over straight digital work?

I'm a huge pack rat so I've pretty much kept every bit of the art supplies I've ever had (stickers, sprinkles, pompoms, play-doh, bits of yarn). I've even started keeping colouring pencil shavings after having done that lion design Haha. There is something for realz wrong with me.



So I'm really into using lots of different stuff as often as I can but for a while all I used was gouache paints and colouring pencils. I'm slowly getting back into the more mixed media side of things with my new silk screening stuff because I love it but also because I need to use up all this junk.

I prefer all of that to straight digital work because I like to sit on the floor with all my supplies around me and getting paint on my face and glue on my hands, plus I can't afford a wacom yet.

Name some of your biggest artistic influences and favorite subjects (besides kittens and bears, the stuff you usually submit to Threadless.)

My biggest influences lately are muymuy, Masaaki Yuasa (creator of cat soup/kaiba), Max Fleischer, everyone in my flickr favourites, my woweezonk friends, and Gary Taxali - I had no idea what I was doing until he taught be at the beginning of my second year at uni. - and apart from cats and bears my favourite subjects are vintage porn stars and triangles.



You're really good at stirring up controversy in the blogs. Is this a natural talent or are you just on a mission to end the madness?

I don't know if it's natural but sometimes I just get a little too passionate about illustration stuff and forget that not all the users are passionate about design stuff and too many of them are just there for a quick buck and don't care about improving - this is usually the people I get into trouble with, but I think I've been good lately? I don't know.

I know you really enjoy (and are quite good at) screen printing. When did you discover screen printing and why do you find it to be so fantastical as opposed to drawing or painting?

I discovered it at some point in high school when I was watching some short tv special about the rad art duo Seripop. I had absolutely no idea what silk screening meant but I wanted to be doing it.



I didn't get into until about 3-4 years later when I finally had the chance to take a class at school and an extracurricular class with Jeff Garcia, and now my thesis revolves around it! I should soon, hopefully, be part of a small studio space with other like-minded silks creeners come '09 which I crazily excited about. The thought of having a real space to print in (that isn't school) makes me giddy.



I know this is like comparing apples and oranges, or something awesome and something not-so-awesome, but... Laser cats or dogs?

Lazur cats! although if the other choice were a laser shiba inu I might have to reconsider. Red has almost won me over to the dog side.

Serious question. TP. Are you a two-ply kind of person who enjoys the finer wipes in life, or are you a tree-hugging single-ply kind of girl? And then... Fold or scrunch?

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Interview by Rachel Gottesman


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