Boondogle Saints

The Story: This is one of my personal favorites.  Shane Patton is my younger brothers best friend. Since they were kids they were buddies, which makes him like a second annoying little brother.  Shane also happens to be a fellow Marine Captain.  Shane is a proud Irish-American as is his brother and father.  But Shane is also a goofball, and one of the funniest people I know...so with guidance from Anthony we mixed the Goofy and the Irish in this poster.

The Poster: The Boondock Saints movie is the inspiration for this poster.  Shane and his brother serve as the Saints, and I was able to sillouette shadow their faces and add them to the brick Irish Flag background.  In a twist, Anth asked me to add their old man as El Duce (The Duke).  His groomsmen fill out the rest of the cast, and I tried to keep them in line with the characters in the movie...Shane's new brother in laws were perfect for the Russian mobsters!

Hussas

The Story: My brother in law and his younger brother both had big events this spring/summer.  Billy Hussa was turning the big 3-0, and Mike Hussa "Mook" was getting hitched.  Both guys are sports fans, and aging athletes.  Billy still plays adult league hockey, and Mike still plays adult league baseball...both of them try so hard to re-live those "glory days" when they were hitting the 5 hole, slugging homers, and not planning weddings or wiping the boogie noses of kids and nephews/nieces.  To help them into the era of "not as good as I once was, but as good as I once was" we made them these two parting shots.

The Posters: Mook's poster centers on his baseball prowess.  Mike is a catcher, so he didn't really work as one of the Major League main characters, but he worked as an additional character.  We put his groomsmen in as three of the players on the Indians, and we also were able to use his wife as the "you guys suck" owner who was posterized by the manager (Mr. Hussa).

Billy's hockey poster features his best buddies from college, his three sons (Who I picture as the Hanson Triplets) and his Brother.  This was a challenge because the Slap Shot poster is an off orange color and it has a cartoonish look to it.  I was able to color the faces of his entourage and use the features of photoshop to add the cartoon look to them as well.  I think it blends well.