Alright Chris, can you briefly tell us about yourself?
Yeah, I'll tell you a little bit about myself.
My name is Chris Coulon.
I live in Salem, Massachusetts.
I'm from Lynn, Massachusetts, which is the next town over.
Currently doing artwork under the name Tallboy.
And it's mainly t-shirts, comic books, and trying to get into skateboards.
Other than that, I like to skate, drink beer, and do other fun shit.
I've always been a person who draws since I was a young lad.
And, you know, it was always pretty much monsters.
And then once skateboarding came into the mix,
yeah, it just started copying all the cool shit I saw on skateboards.
And then eventually I did a few skateboards for the Coliseum Skate Shop.
Then ShirtsAndDestroy.com was born.
And then I got lucky enough to do a board with Creature,
which was probably like a high point.
The highest point of my drawing and art career so far.
So I'm trying to get back into comics,
because those I feel like are really rewarding once you finish a comic.
I've done like two, four to five page comics, and they all took.
So goddamn long, and it was so frustrating,
but I really like looking at comics.
And, you know, I've been doing a lot of t-shirts lately,
and I feel like I still do some t-shirts, but shifted back to comics.
Other than that, always trying to do skateboard designs,
doing an art show with you dudes, bad dudes,
and trying to work out some other art shows.
So trying to show my work more.
Screen print on wood, and do paintings on wood.
Kind of like this guy over my shoulder here.
But he's actually die cutting him out with his bandsaw,
and it's really cool to hold like a piece of wood
that's finished and mounted and everything,
because it looks like, you know, it's going to be,
it's a little bit more than a poster.
It's like a piece of wood that hangs on the wall,
and it's, I feel like it's going to, you know,
be really cool in like 50 years when somebody comes across one
at a fucking antique fair or whatnot,
and it's holding a piece of wood with a decapitated goat head on it.
So I think they'll be cool.
I don't know how to pick a favorite piece I've done,
but the one I'm most proud of would be the Creature Skateboard,
because that's a, that just went for me doing
the local skate shop skateboards to, you know,
taking a shot and trying to contact Creature,
and luckily Lee was an awesome dude,
and he was down to do a skateboard.
So I told him my idea.
He told me his ideas, and we went with it,
and we released a skateboard that was limited to 500 pieces,
and it came out with an oven mitt.
So it was just like totally up my alley,
and I was very psyched to be a part of that.
That would be the number one piece of work for me.
The Pizza Box was birthed at Liberated Images Print Shop,
where I still work today,
but when I was first getting started there,
there was a man named Kevin Leary,
who is a food enthusiast.
He's got a full sleeve of tattoos on his arm of food,
like sausages, pizza, cheeseburgers, whatnot,
and he fucking rules.
He saw me drawing pizza all the time.
He said, we're going to do a pizza t-shirt.
We're going to ship it out in pizza boxes.
We'll hand screen him here.
He actually, physically, was the one who hand screened him.
I did the illustration for the box.
We made a size chart on the side,
and when you open up the Pizza Box,
the Pizza Box gets mailed to you in the mail.
You open up the Pizza Box and there's a t-shirt with the pizza on it.
We thought it was fucking genius.
I'm not going to be a bullshitter and say,
I grew up reading comic books because I didn't.
The only comics I ever saw were in the newspaper,
and I don't really understand those anyway,
like I think our field's a piece of shit.
I guess one of the first comics that I really saw
that really got me psyched were R. Crumb.
He's a pretty accessible name these days,
just because he's amazing and a complete madman
who just draws all the time.
Looking up R. Crumb comics, you find other comics.
One of my favorites is Thrilling Murder Comics.
It's just a comic book all about murder and death
and craziness and cults and sex and decapitations
and dismemberings and it's funny.
It rules.
Just watching horror movies like The Thing, The Fly,
all those 80s sci-fi horror movies that just,
the special effects are before CGI
and those things just get me so psyched.
It's real slime, it's real explosions, real looking brains.
You could just be listening to music,
I'll listen to Slayer and just get an awesome idea in my head
and just want to draw some people getting decapitated
and torn up by machetes or whatever.
