#298 - Andy Jenkins

Andy Jenkins discusses wanting to leave Wyoming at the age of 13, meeting a young Spike Jonze, working for Rocco at World doing graphics including Jason Lee’s first graphic “The Cat In The Hat”, how much graphic artists gets paid now vs then, his comic Wrench Pilot, working as the art director for the newly formed Girl Skateboards, finding Evan Hecox, leaving Girl Skateboards then returning after 7 years, 30 years of Girls Skateboards and much more!

Timestamps

00:00:00 Andy Jenkins

00:01:08 Wanting to leave Wyoming at the age of 13

00:03:23 BMX brought Andy to California

00:06:49 Meeting a young Spike Jonze

00:14:35 What caused Andy to go from BMX to skate

00:17:03 Our Sponsor AG1 (Athletic Greens)  

00:18:38 Getting his first job in skateboarding

00:21:15 Working for Rocco at World doing graphics

00:24:42 Jason Lee's cat in the hat graphic

00:27:57 Skateboard graphic artist pay rates

00:34:31 Graphics that Andy did that maybe he wasn't too proud of

00:41:22 Wrench pilot

00:46:13 Working for the newly formed Girl Skateboards

00:54:41 Finding Evan Hecox

00:57:33 Chris bummed on his Chocolate portrait board

01:01:35 The difference between doing graphics for Girl and Chocolate

01:07:54 Working with Rick, Mike, Megan and Spike

01:17:04 Going back to Girl and Chocolate

01:24:09 Andy's mural at the Berrics

01:32:18 Andy's favorite board graphic that he's done

01:33:29 The Girl Skateboards basketball series

01:35:54 Competitive nature between the artists in the art dump

01:39:07 Working with riders on graphics

01:47:44 30 years of chocolate

01:49:20 The OG Chocolate logo

01:51:03 Deckaid

01:56:53 Lakai video intro shot by Spike

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