STOP EATING OUT OF THE TRASH
GOOD LAUGHS.
BAD TATERS.
A MODERN WOMAN’S GUIDE TO DATING
What happens when dating advice, dark humor and a basket of questionable potatoes collide? Stop Eating Out of the Trash -A Modern Woman’s Guide to Dating turns painfully familiar dating archetypes into 20 original “Trash Tater Tots,” using humor, storytelling and original art to make the red flags a little harder to ignore.
ORIGINAL CONCEPT · WRITING · ILLUSTRATION · CHARACTER DESIGN · VISUAL STORYTELLING · ORIGINAL IP
THE SUGAR TOT
THE GHOST PEPPER TOT
THE MANIPU-TATER
THE PROJECT TOT
THE HOLLA BACK TOT
AND THESE… ARE JUST THE APPETIZERS.
20 Trash Tater Tots in total. Unfortunately, you may have dated a few of them.
THE GOOD. THE BAD. AND THE HUNGRY.
Conventional dating advice wasn't working.
Sometimes the best way to a hungry and lonely women’s heart is through junk food and ridcule.
Stop Eating Out of the Trash takes the red flags we rationalize, the behaviors we excuse, the patterns we ignore, and the questionable men we keep giving “one more chance,” and turns them into something much harder to ignore:
Adorable yet greasy Trash Tater Tots.
By combining humor, storytelling and original illustration, the Trash Tots turn painfully familiar dating patterns into something women can recognize, laugh about, and hopefully stop picking up.
MAKE THEM LAUGH. MAKE THEM THINK. MAKE IT STICK(Y).
A TOT IS BORN.
It starts with a bad dating decision.
Then I give him a name.
BAD DATING BEHAVIOR + WORDPLAY + IRRESISTIBLE FRIED POTATO =
TRASH TOT
From sketch to sketchy
→
THE SUGAR TOT
From rough notebook sketch to fully realized character, each Tot is built around a recognizable dating archetype with his own personality, visual identity and particular brand of questionable behavior.
THE TOTS HAVE BIGGER PLANS.
THE BOOK IS ONLY THE BEGINNING.
The Trash Tater Tots were designed to live beyond the page. From collectible blind boxes and plushies to merchandise and future brand extensions, the characters were built with a larger world in mind.
COLLECTIBLE BLIND BOXES
“You never know which red flag you're going to get.”
PLUSH TOTS
“Finally, a questionable man you can bring home, cuddle with or punch. No one gets hurt. No heartache. No guilt.”
