ANDY JENKINS

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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!

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