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.

He also had a problem with his right nipple, so that was also changed.  I made his colorations similar to the original, but found the pizza not being orange worked better.  An old geezer would definitely have droopy pecs and not muscular ones.  This stayed on my mind as I began this drawing.

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.

I think this only took me a couple days to finish this drawing and I would work on it in my free time after the sun went down in Monterey, CA as I couldn’t paint on my rat painting anymore without light.

My final act on this piece was to rotate this geezer slightly so he would appear as if he was falling trying to catch his broken spear.  I added shading to emphasize elements which was easy in Inkscape.  The broken spear and droopy nose were done in homage to one of my great inspirations, Salvador Dali, and his surrealist ideas.

The difficulty was when I tried to make the shadows coming off his feet and the pizza.  When I did a fade, it didn’t come out right when I bought sample stickers.  So, I did tiled clones again like in other designs and it worked splendidly for these items like cut-out stickers and softstyle t-shirts.

To the rescue again Inkscape!  I researched the competitor of Inkscape online at the time, Adobe Illustrator, which is very costly, only on Windows and doesn’t even have this tiled clones feature.  Paying for less!

Inkscape is free and works on any platform especially Linux which I use regularly for the security.  The coolest thing about Linux is that mostly all the distros are open source and offer free software programs that rival paid Windows programs.

Linux is free both monetarily and most beneficially free from Bill Gates Jr’s beady little eyes!