Auntie Who? Auntie Fashions was created to allow artistic and political expression, as the free press once allowed the common man. Far too often today, as media conglomerate swallows media conglomerate, we are presented with fewer and fewer opinions, and fewer platforms for dissent.

With the Internet and the t-shirt, Auntie Fashions aims to tip the scales in a small way, producing designs and opinions that run counter to the prevailing corporate winds. Here are a few of the people that make it happen.

 

Mal Content- Fearless Leader

By day, Mal does sales for a small software developer in Chicago. By night he plays bass guitar for pop band the Me Decade, writes songs for his own psychedelic band, Red Plastic Buddha, and handles the day-to-day operations of Auntie Fashions. When you send an email to Auntie Fashions, chances are that he'll be the one who answers. Mal is also responsible for most of the shirt concepts, some of the designs, and ALL of the grunt work.

In the '80s, Mal openly opposed the Neoconservative tide.

 

Jim Siergey- Artist

Jim Siergey toils as an animator and cartoon illustrator. His work has been seen in major magazines, small press publications, television commercials, bubble gum cards and art gallery shows. His comic strip, Cultural Jet Lag, has appeared in over 150 publications including Time, USA Weekend and National Lampoon magazines.

Jim created the artwork on Pat Buchanan and Kenny Starr. Well done, Jim!

 

 

Rob Sula - Artist

Although humor is the main objective of many of his illustrations, Robert Sula's fine artwork can best be characterized as having intense emotional saturation.

Mr. Sula has run the gamut working as a graphic artist, illustrator, and fine artist. Within these disciplines his media choices are just as varied. He works in oils, pen and ink, colored pencil, and his current favorite, intaglio printmaking.

He has exhibited his artwork throughout the country and is currently represented by the Muse Image Gallery in New Mexico. This is Rob's second go-round with Auntie Fashions, and we couldn't be happier to have him back. Rob did the fantastic job on Geek Shall Inherit the Earth.

 

Peter Mueller- Artist

Mal had been a fan of Pete's for many years, having taped dozens of his efforts to refrigerators, lockers and band space walls over the years. He had been looking for someone who could do a design in the PS Mueller style and was ready to give up when it hit him: why not find Peter and ask HIM to do it? After a search on Dogpile Mal found the man himself, sent him an email, and a few weeks later, Peter had designed one of our shirts (Possible New Mascots for the Republicans).

Instead of giving you a standard bio, we took the liberty of lifting this one from Peter's web site. Hope you don't mind, Pete J .

"I started drawing these things in grade school and the teachers couldn't stop me. All the other ten year olds grew up to become lawyers, housewives, account executives, murderers, dope fiends, doctors, moms, dads, programmers, etc., and I grew up to be a cartoonist. Figure the odds.

Along the way I went to college, worked in twenty-five restaurants and babbled professionally at three radio stations. By the time I quit broadcasting to go full time in cartooning, I had cooked about forty thousand pizzas and a quarter of a million eggs before cranking out roughly a thousand radio spots.

My cartoons have been published all over the place during the past twenty-five years. You may have caught my work in Omni, Health, Utne Reader, the Progressive, Harper's, Funny Times, Infoworld, Small Business Computing, The Door, or even Temp Slave and Boycott Quarterly. Alternative weeklies such as The Chicago Reader, The Weekly Alibi, The Tucson Weekly, East Bay Express, Oklahoma Gazette, Isthmus, Good Times, San Diego Reader, Orlando Weekly, and Sacramento News and Review ( just to name a few ) also carry my dreadful little drawings. Some of my cartoons are distributed by the Cartoonist and Writers Syndicate, The Cartoon Bank, and The Cartoon Gallery as well.

I draw from fifty to seventy cartoons a month and when I'm not doing that, or this, I'm living a real life with my wife and cats in Madison Wisconsin."

To see more of Peter's work, go to www.psmueller.com

 

Auntie Fashions is more than the sum of its parts, or the people who do the work here. Our goal is to build a community where like minds can come together. At times our culture can sap the strength from us, making us feel alone and impotent against the forces of greed, intolerance and injustice. Auntie Fashions will hopefully serve as a finger in the eye of that culture. We won't go out without a fight.

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