About

Couch Wolf is an open love letter, in art form, to the Region and a celebration of life in Northwest Indiana, where I grew up with a passion for drawing. It started accidentally as a creative outlet while laid off from my corporate graphic design job. After a decade of living in Chicago, I'd recently moved back to NWI and, in doing so, rediscovered the boundless beauty of the Dunes National Park, the joy of getting lost on scenic back roads, and the nuisance of having to wait until noon on Sundays for the liquor store to open.

Being compelled to create Region-inspired art pulled me out of an extended creative rut. Mixing local landmarks, legends, and lore with my childhood affinity for Mad Magazine, trading cards, blockbuster movies, and Joe Camel became the genesis for unbridled designs, like wildly colorized film photographs of the Dunes Lakeshore, satirical drawings of Region rats smoking cigarettes, and t-shirts about (supposedly) haunted places I criminally trespassed as a kid. 

A friend encouraged me to list some of these personal passion projects on Etsy, and they resonated. Then, it seemed only natural to offer shirts, stickers, and art inspired by life in Northwest Indiana in local shops around the Region, and now my stuff is available at Alley Kat's Curiosity Shoppe (Valparaiso), 3 Wicked Apples (Chesterton), and Region Records (Highland and Whiting). I've been in over my head ever since, yet still constantly coming up with new art about life in the Region.