MUSIC

for me.

I named my business Screwball Press with no thought that I’d still be working at this 30 years later. The name was based on a few things, like screwball comedies from the 1930s and Warner Brothers cartoons. I didn’t want the name to suggest that I knew what I was doing. It’s that whole Generation X thing where everyone was mocking the establishment. Other people I knew had their own record labels, and the sense was, “See? If I can do this, anyone can do this!”

I started teaching screen printing to other people as part of the business when I started having kids, and the business was in our living space so I could stay at home and watch the kids. I had friends who were designers and wanted to hire me to print posters, and I didn’t always have time between the kids and other gigs. So I o ered to let them come down to the basement, and I could show them how to do it themselves.