Col & T

The Story: Col and T are getting Married March 31st. Col is my sister-in-law, and she is a tough cookie! T is my soon to be brother-in-law who is a huge fan of men's league sports...football, baseball, wiffle ball, whatever. So they were having bachelor parties on the same weekend and we needed to come up with some posters to send them into marriage with some comic relief.

The Poster (T): Any athlete worth his salt will recognize the old Bo Jackson "multi-sport" athlete poster that I used as a baseline for this poster. T poses on the cover of a Sports IllustrATOR magazine, with the headline being about his deteriorating career. Below his spiral downward is depicted in a slew of photo's even including a cameo by Charlie Sheen! Along the left bottom is the tribute to the groomsmen. Lined up on their own baseball cards, they fill the ranks of those other superstars who have ruined their careers along the way!

The Poster (Col): Col is a tough girl for sure, and based on the fact that the bachelor weekend was St. Patrick's weekend, and the fact that she is Irish and hard as nails, Chris felt like something along the lines of Irish Mafia was the best way to go. So, The O'Reilly Clan was born. On an Irish Flag Background I changed Col's dress from Black to Irish Flag Colors and then plastered the open space with newspaper and magazine headlines paying tribute to the activities of the Irish All-Girl Mafia started by Maryellen (Col's Mom) and now led in its illegal activities by Col herself. All of the bridesmaids make it into the magazine and newspaper headline photos.

Drew Bachelor Party

The Story: Drew is one of my best buddies from High School. He is part of an 8 man crew who I traveled to Greece with on an epic adventure that we all still have vivid memories about. Drew is one of the nicest, most well liked guys I know, and his friends threw him a bachelor party in Vegas before his wedding. They wanted to get a bunch of old pictures to plaster around his suite at the Mandalay Bay, but getting this group of guys to do anything is like herding cats...so instead we just pieced together this poster honoring his departure from the Bachelor's life!

The Poster: Drew is a man of many faces. In this poster we tried to capture all of the different DREWs...It also happened to be around the same time as the death of the rapper "Heavy D". Heavy D happened to be one of the nicknames we gave Drew as a kid. So we turned Drew in to Heavy D and said R.I.P. to the single Drew as he entered the married life. At the bottom we did something new and left a space for all the guys going to the bachelor party to sign something for Drew. His wedding day was Feb 18th. I don't remember what happened in Vegas otherwise I would tell you a story!!!

WANTED

The Story: My sister in law was turning 30 and we were having a prohibition style murder mystery party for her, so her husband asked me to pull together a wanted poster based on the character that she was playing in the mystery.

The Poster: Laura, or "Molly Moll" is wanted. All the other characters are listed and even I get a spot on this one, as the private investigator.

Celebrity

The Story: My brother's wife was turning 30 and we really wanted to do a poster for her that was similar to the People poster we did for Danielle..but, like I said the People poster got me in some trouble so we came up with Celebrity Magazine!

The Poster: Jill and Anth looking celebrity on the cover, with a couple hot shots on the side and down across the middle. Some big headlines to catch the eye. Then in a neat twist, we put Jill on the cover of two movies from the 80's (Her party was an 80's theme). If you zoom in enough you can see her on those movie covers.

Sexy In the City - of Allentown

The Story: This is actually the photoshop that started it all. Anthony's Scarface actually happened after the Sexy in the City bachelorette party invite. However, this was not actually a poster, this was a small card invitation that was sent out to the girls. The card was eventually converted to a poster for Jill's basement wall.

The Poster: This is a spoof on Sexy in the City, in case you didn't know. The poster gives the time and date, and who it is for, and then has a cool martini glass spilling and also serving as the Y in City. The skyline is not New York, although it seems like it, it is actually Allentown, PA the location of the party. The girls picked the colors, and font, and we were good to go!

SAMCRO

The Story: My youngest brother, Mikey, was graduating from Kent State and I thought I would do a cool poster for him for his graduation party. Mikey loves the show, Sons of Anarchy, and so do I. What better poster idea than to turn Him, Me, Anth, and Dad into Redwood Originals.....

The Poster: Enough Said! (This is actually not the final version of this poster...but this is the one for the rest of the world!!!)

The First 30th

The Story: So, up to this point we have been doing Bachelor Parties and Wedding Posters. But then came Danielle's 30th Birthday Party. Danielle is one of my wife's best friends and one of her 7 College Roomates. Yes, 7 others. So a total of 8 girls lived together in West Philly for about 3 years. Those girls, "The Crazy 8", still stay in touch, and threw a great party for Danielle. They also commissioned me to make her shine in her own PEOPLE magazine! FYI - This poster was lost in parking garage in Manhattan. Completely done and in a 30x20 frame. Someone took it...we can only assume that someone has Daniel hanging in their living room, or serving as the roof of their cardboard box.

The Poster: Cover Shot Of Danielle looking cute. A bunch of People type photos and tabloid style headlines, along with a group shot of all the girls who used to be roomates at PENN. I actually got in trouble for printing it with PEOPLE on it...I guess I have to make up a fake name next time.