Who Ees Thees Johnny Thief Person?

So, it has come to my attention that there are probably more than just a few people out there wondering exactly who this Johnny Thief person is that collaborates on posters so much with Jeff. Well, that my friends, is a long story. Some of that story can be found in The Art of Modern Rock if you have access to that. If not, well read on.....

Back before Jeff and I met, Jeff was working as the AD (art director) of Island Screenworks in Myrtle Beach, SC. He had a staff of 10+ artists and interns working under him including Johnny Thief DiDonna and one Mike Martin (Engine House 13). Johnny was Jeff's right hand dude and was one of the few who would pull the late nighters at the shop working with my workaholic partner. As they realised that Island would not go on to do posters as planned, Jeff, Johnny, Mike, Mike's wife Cari and myself started Low Brow Ink. We printed our first screened gig posters in Jeff's and my dining room 10 years ago in 1997.

Anyway, as life will do, we all moved soon thereafter to different locations. The guys continued to collab under the LBI moniker until the shipping became ridiculous. Mike started Engine House 13, Johnny picked up a tattoo gun, and we changed the Studio name to Drowning Creek.

Now Johnny is at least living in the same state as us, even though we suck because we haven't visited him since he and his partner, Matt Lukesh, opened Seppuku Tattoo which also hosts the Drowning Creek Gallery.


Anyway, to make a long story short, Thief is more than just a collab partner... he is a Brother in Arms. Soon we will be adding much more "history" lessons about Drowning Creek to our web site. There will be much more about Mr. Thief, but until then, you can go to this thread on gigposters.com to see some of his amazing tattoo work.