Joe Rinaldi

Work / Multiverse

Team Up! Mash Up!

Two unrelated characters, teamed up, then mashed into one.

Leading Off

Baxter Mifflin poster

Baxter Mifflin
Team up! Mash up!
Mash Up: Snake Eyes (GI Joe) + Sideswipe (Transformers)
Chewie
Mash Up: Chewie as a Ghostbuster
Team Up: Chewie and Venkman
Snake Eyes (GI Joe)
Mash Up: The Xenomorph (Aliens) + The Flying Monkeys (Wizard of Oz)
Xenomonkey sketch
Mash Up: Ripley (Aliens) + Imperator Furiosa (Mad Max)

Point After

How it started

Team Up! Mash Up! was an idea I cooked up with Greg Storey while eating Mexican food in Austin in 2017-ish? I was looking for an illustration project where I could draw all of the nerdy stuff I loved, but I hated adding color to my illustrations. Greg suggested I design a coloring book, and the idea took shape. I still need to do a ton more wrestling with this, but I loved the idea of teaming up two unrelated characters, and then mashing them up into one combined character concept. More soon…