Rat Ripper Pins!

I made this coffee rat a-frame a couple years ago as a homage to the Powell Peralta Ripper graphic and a lot of people asked if there would be shirts or mugs made from it. There were a few false starts but finally, we have something!!! There will be another incarnation of it in a few months but check out these sweet pins for now! At the moment they are available in Cleveland, OH at Passengers Cafe and Coffee Coffee Coffee but I'll have them for sale on my site shortly. My good bud, Trey, made this insane package and also sent along a couple of mugs I had made for his shops back in the winter. What a guy!

The Disloyalty Snake of Cleveland

This has been waiting a few months for the reveal and now the time has come! The Midwest Wolfman and one of my favorite creative partners in crime, Trey Kirchoff, of Passengers Cafe fame, asked me if I'd create an illustration for a coffee mug he was working on as part of a bigger project to get people in Cleveland into their local coffee shops. Passengers Cafe, along with Duck-Rabbit Coffee, Rising Star, Phoenix Coffee and Pour Cleveland are setting up a disloyalty program where, if you fill up your "disloyalty card" with a stamp from each of these coffee shops, you get a FREE mug! With my illustration on it! There's a limited run of 250 so get to it people. Once they are gone, THEY ARE GONE! Big thanks again to Trey Kirchoff for this fun gig.

Check out some of the more interesting moments from the creative process below.

Always tryin to draw those darn rats but those don't really exist in Cleveland. But, the western rat snake on the other hand....

Ain't she a beaut?