about us
Fantastic Bonanza is a triumvirate of t-shirt connoisseurs consisting of the Bonanziers: Joe, John, and Greg. Coincidentally, all three hail from Wilmette, IL, a suburban Chicago town. What are the odds!
Having grown tired of consuming countless t-shirts from a wide variety of vendors all across the internet, we three decided to take things into our own shirt-enthused hands. Our primary mission? To create the most fantastic t-shirts possible.
In order to properly ensure the fantasticness of our t-shirts, we subject each of our designs to rigorous (but humane) quality assurance programs. The tees that pass muster are irreverent and quirky, and have been known to prompt responses such as, "That is very silly," "I love your t-shirt, where can I buy 20 more just like it?" and "What are you doing in my house?" All three Bonanziers proudly would (and do!) wear the t-shirts that they print.
Ultimately, Fantastic Bonanza prides itself in creating products that at least three people like—that's us, you know—and we think it's pretty dang hard to top that.
Joe Wasserman (Lead Bonanzier)
Joe is a full-time Fantastic Bonanzier. When he's not a full-time Bonanzier, he's a full-time student at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Instead of actually doing any work at Fantastic Bonanza himself, he usually browbeats baby animals and/or baby people into doing everything for him. This strategy has been the key to his success. Besides the occasional browbeating, Joe also enjoys long strolls on the beach; but don't worry, Joe is not the kind of guy who enjoys destroying the sandcastles of others. So if you're the type who likes to make sandcastles, you don't have to worry—unless, of course, you're a baby animal and/or a baby person, in which case your brow may or may not get beaten.
John Chouinard (Chief Bonanzier)
Like most great apes, John enjoys warm slumbers, not being mauled, and ingesting unwholesome foods. His hobbies include scrawling, gazing, lollygagging, beard-stroking, and irreparably damaging the hair cells in his cochleae. At the Fantastic Bonanza offices, he spends most of his time drawing monsters sporting odd hats, diminishing office productivity by an estimated 26%. John helps cover company costs primarily by winning lots of money at Abraham Lincoln look-alike contests across the country.
In the past, John has considered becoming a paleontologist, train engineer, zookeeper, puppeteer, voice actor, special effects mogul, screenwriter, animator, and owner of Lego Group. He is currently underqualified for all of these occupations.
Greg Poulos (Head Bonanzier)
As Head Bonanzier, Greg is almost certainly one of the top four (4) most important members of the Fantastic Bonanza team. His duties are of the standard variety for a small-scale t-shirt printing operation like Fantastic Bonanza: web-designing, product-designing, brainstorming, angrily storming, bellyaching, lion-taming, hoops-shooting, and underwater basket-weaving. However, Joe and John mostly just put up with Greg because of his Brobdingnagian height: he is very good at getting hard-to-reach things.
Greg's two greatest nemeses are 1) koala bears and 2) the letter 'I'. Apart from those, though, he's a pretty easygoing dude.
