Work-In-Progress

Hello!

I’m sure many of you have been wondering - what ever happened to that guy who sold t-shirts? Well, I’m still here - in the shadows, plotting and scheming! Haha. 

Much has happened since 2019 as you all know - and I stepped away from the brand and I thought a lot about what I wanted to do post-pandemic. 

I want to be clear, the brand remains a passion of mine and I still want to take it as far as I can!

Since 2016, people have always asked me if I would eventually write a comic for the characters on the t-shirt designs. I never thought about writing in the beginning, but I found myself pondering and introducing new characters after the first collection. I would write these backstories that I would return to because I wanted to create and explore further. 

In the beginning, I was inspired by video games but eventually, my mind shifted - maybe I wasn’t meant to lead an apparel brand, what if my mission was to tell stories… 

Well, I’m happy to announce that during my time away I have been working hard on a little something, a one-shot comic for Press Aye!

I know I’ve teased the idea long before, but the script is finished, and edited, and the storyboard looks clean - the stage is set, and slowly but surely we’re making progress!

I’m excited to share this next project with you all and I hope you can all appreciate it when it releases. It’s a work in progress, so it’s going to take some time.

I want to thank everyone who’s supported the t-shirt collections throughout the years and the artists as well who believed in my ideas. It was challenging but truly fulfilling! I’ll never forget the people I’ve met along the way and I hope to see you all again and new faces in the future when I do decide to return to promote this new project.

I will keep you all posted as we get started on this next adventure - it’s an exciting time!

- Jesse | Creative at Press Aye

*Illustration by Tiffany Deng