The Penultimate Backyard Enterprises Post


And, now, at last, the second to last Backyard Enterprises post. The man behind the company packed it in after a little over a year. Would there have been a lucrative market for the materials he was proposing to produce? He’d started out thinking there was. The marketing he’d had us do indicated that there was some kind of market but that reaching it would probably require more capital than he had to invest. And there would be no guarantee of success. At that point he’d already spent a few thousand and really wasn’t interested in spending any more without an immediate turnaround. So Backyard Enterprises was put out to pasture.

Careful, It Bites


If toxic waste really did look all ghosty and vicious there’d probably be more enthusiasm about cleaning it up. It would be a macho thing.

“What do you do?”

“I’m a cop!”

“Oh yeah? I put out oil fires!”

“Feh. My son wrestles toxic waste on live television!”

The Rain Comes Down


The educational posters were also meant to be used for brochures and pamphlets. Once the original art had been scanned we isolated individual images so they could be used as individual illustrations.