Chapo Trap House
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Originators and exemplars of the term “dirtbag left”, Chapo Trap House are much more than a podcast—they’re the most successful project in Patreon history, they’re New York Times bestselling authors, they’re international performers, and they’re Vanity Fair- & GQ-profiled subjects. Further: they’re cathartic, they understand our strange political-cultural moment, and they’re brutally funny. Collaborating with them on any design project is a thrill, not least because it lets me contribute a visual soupçon to their inspired gags.
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Graphic design, illustration, pre-press.
When choosing an artistic medium for designing niche visual gags predicated on ironically bleak & obscure Cold War conspiratorial references, don’t overlook the humble t-shirt.
Assorted live-show posters over the years.
“Pod On The Run” was a collaboration between myself (design) and the incomparable Josh Lynch (illustration).
Podcast tile for their beloved side miniseries about the subliminally harrowing empire-in-decline metatext of prestige TV.
In 2018, I had the honor of being a contributing artist to their Guide To Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason. I supplied the more genre-specific visual gags, including an Aaron Sorkin manga, an ostensible kids’ activity section, and a spread where the typeset page text devolves into paranoid handscratch.
I also drew a quadtych of faux-historical newspaper comic strip parodies (which were, for reasons of legal prudence, excised from the final edition).