

I made it, and she’s like, “How’s the taste?” I said, “I’m not eating that. They’re long gone now, but the woman working there said I should make a cabbage soup. This was some bed and breakfast place up by a ski mountain in Pennsylvania. He said, “All right, you’re hired.” So, we did that, and then a landscaping job, too.
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So, we moved up there, and I ended up being the cook at some little diner, but I couldn’t cook! The guy asked me if I knew how to cook I said I cooked breakfast. This was in the early ’90s in the middle of nowhere Pennsylvania. So I met my future wife, and we ended up moving to my parents’ property just to get away from the New Jersey mess that we were stuck in, stupid jobs and everything, and had me working on his house to try to help them build a retirement house. I went to school and tried to do that, and it just was miserable. “Go the safe route, and you have a good, reliable job.” And I kept telling him what I wanted to do, and he’s like, “It’s a good backup, but this is what you should do.” So, I did that. My father was a teacher, and he kept telling me that I should go that route. But I had no idea how to make that make money and be a job or a career. I always drew, and I always liked what I was drawing, to a point. But when you’re 17, 18, 19, you’re doing these jobs that are just beating you up, and you know you want to do something.
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There was a lot of manual labor that probably helped me in the long run – I can work on my house now. Straight out of school, I ended up with jobs roofing or floor sanding, and I was miserable. I’ve done a lot of shitty things and shitty jobs that I did not want to do to get where I wanted to be.

You said plenty… A NOT-SO-SOUPER EARLY WORK LIFE “It felt like I was just talking without saying anything.” Oh, no worries there, Tony, my good man. “I hope you got something interesting out of all that,” he told me soon after our interview. That is where the pencils, ink, ideas, and animals all come into play, helping him navigate the world alongside his soulmate, Wendy. Squindo’s warmth and decency echo quietly yet persistently from all he does, sometimes leaving the (quite understandable) feeling that humanity might be a bit much to deal with. But dig a little deeper, and you’ll see a man rich with a wide-ranging palette of experiences, including the fine art of breakfast soups, fiery cars, and pet chipmunks. Yes, yes, by now, his wonderful art has become well-known among the Metallica family his creations have adorned dozens of t-shirts, posters, and other assorted merchandise over the last two-plus decades.

Aside from being one of the more decent human beings you could meet on this planet, Tony Squindo is something of a Renaissance man.
