"How the Doctor got Started"

Doctor Tee Shirt is My Professional Name

I'm going to start writing about the T-Shirt World, My World and how it all came about. A long time ago (I've been in business 32 years, That was a time long ago) I was an aspiring cartoonist. Or I should say Bartoonist! My college & life long friend Altair Gobo (Yes that is his real name) had an idea to start a cartoon strip about the bar scene of all the things we've seen & did. I called it Bartoons. At first it was frustrating trying to get a cartoonist to illustrate our ideas. It forced me to start dabbling in the cartoon art world. I bought some books on cartooning (No they didn't have Cartooning for Dummies back then) and started to teach myself how to draw when I was about 30 years' old. Before long I was becoming a Bartoonist. I started making cartoons of the bar scene. Having experience being a long time bartender gave me some ideas of cartoons from all the pubs I worked at. There was a lot of material in my head.

Then I started by making cartoons to sell to the major magazines at one time. I found out anyone could submit cartoons to the mags and they would review. Accepting them was not an easy accomplishment. After many submissions over a couple of years I finally sold one cartoon! It was a pretty lewd cartoon and I sold it to Hustler Magazine. A man in a bar talking to an attractive women with a very nice "Personality" with an Izod shirt on. For those whom do not know Izod (A Brand) had an alligator as it's logo on the left chest of the polo shirt. In the cartoon the alligator comes to life and bites the women on her breast. A Bartoon done as tactfully as a young wild man like myself could muster. I was put in a small yearly cartoon publication instead of the main magazine. A move I think they used on young naive cartoonist like myself to pay me only $15.00 instead of the $300.00 they would pay established cartoonist for cartoons that went in the main publication. It would have been nice to save that check or at least make a copy of the check. Being young and starving I just cashed it in the early 80's because I really needed the money :}

Well after that endeavor and trying in vain to get a Bartoon comic strip off the ground I found a way to sell my cartoons. It worked on T-Shirts. I designed some and a friend printed them on T-Shirts for me and they sold. So I then started my own T-Shirt business. Thus the start of Doctor T-Shirt in 1987.