Little Geezers Gallery

Little Geezers.  I came up with this logo after an experience at my local Little Caesars in Modesto near my old place in 2020.  They had a cheap lunch special then that included a personal pizza and 20 oz. soda for like $5.

This was the height of mask nazi time, and the cashier told me that I would need to have a mask in order to be served or make an order.  I protested that he could just take my cash and hand me the pizza outside as I was pretty hungry.

He then replied to me in a robot like voice as if I was not even there: “There needs to be a mask.”  I said something to him like, “I’m a human being.  Are you saying I need to have a mask in order to be served?”  He replied again in perfect robotic like fashion again, “There needs to be a mask.”

Here’s their original logo that I worked from when I did the original drawing:

I actually like how this logo looks and the character.  I wondered how I could mess with the name of this place, and it came to me: Little Geezers!  I did a drawing of Caesar mask nazi as I thought of him without a toga.

I believed he was pretty fat under there, as every time I used to eat Little Caesars I couldn’t digest it for at least a day its likely so filled with strange bio-engineered ingredients like most of the deli food at Publix.  Plus at the time there were many little caesers everywhere I went demanding what I put on my face.

Here’s the original drawing I made of him as if he was older.  I made him a geezer, because it really got old dealing with the mask mandates during that time and the years following.  It got so old that I never did business with them again, nor will I in the future:

This initial ink drawing was a mess and I took it into Inkscape and made it into a scalable vector.  His hand had some problems and also the rotten pizza on the ground had some stray lines that were replaced.  I erased my ink lines from it, then added colors and other elements.

I also changed the type to be a worn and tattered type face, better expressing that this guy had gotten very old.

His hairy wart on his droopy nose in the original drawing has too many hairs, so this was changed too.