The Regular Guys

It's strange how sometimes things present themselves to you and they seem like a good idea at the time but when they don't work out, you know it's for the best.

I came across such a project back in 2004 after my friend Buddy Finethy called local Atlanta 96 Rock radio station and mentioned to super popular Larry & Eric (The Regular Guys) that his friend was an editor at CRACKED magazine. This immediately caught their interest and negotiations started for a "Regular Guys" magazine. With my many contacts to a variety of artists (some more riske in nature than others), a friend who was in magazine advertising and a distribution plan we put together a dummy copy and a meeting was had with "The Guys".

They loved the idea of a visual humor mag with interviews, room to sell their merchandise, and finally a centerfold type girl of the month. As fate would have it, the day before they were to sign a contract greenlighting the project they got themselves kicked off the air for an unfortunate dubbing error while interviewing a porn star.

As I mentioned, earlier when this whole thing fell through (and the money was good, real good) I didn't give it a second thought, knowing full well that I had in some way been saved from compromising my own ideals.

It was fun to put together, like all projects are. Above are some images that accompanied the dummy copy. The Mic was to be a mascot of sorts, caricatures of Larry & Eric and border art were all done by artist Ben Boling. The cover rough was done by Buddy Finethy.