Joryjohn

Thanks! So, we met as camp counselors back in 2002 and we immediately starting working on various projects together. We did some comics and wrote some funny songs and just messed around, trying to create stuff. Something we did, which proved to be fateful, was buy a button-maker ... you know, the kind that makes buttons. One day, we were flipping through a magazine and saw a pic of a dinosaur and wrote "All my friends are dead" on it. It was a popular button, if we don't say so ourselves, which we traded away for some sort of camp goods or services or something. Later, we turned that into a t-shirt. After that seemed popular, we decided to make more "All my friends are ____" shirts. One of the ideas we had was a tree saying, "All my friends are endtables." After hours of discussion (seriously) we decided that that didn't totally work out of context ... but rather than scrap the idea, we decided to make a little 'zine called "All my friends are dead," which we sold off our website and in little boutiques and such. From there, Chronicle Books approached us — one of the editors had found our 'zine in a shop — and asked if we could turn that 12-page mini book into a 96 page maxi-book. We said yes. That's the story. From a button to a book. What do you think?

Craigslist.

White polo.

Target red polo.

WHOA! That is the most fantastic gift you could've given us, dsies. What a treat! What an arm! Happy March 24 to all of us!