What's up with The Chicken?
People are always asking where the name Phantom Chicken came from. Well...
When Gregg left NYC to come to Portland in 1993, he had in is possession a piece of film positive with the original Chicken on it.
He took this film to his first job in P-town: mixing ink for a local (now defunct) screen print shop that printed large bus ads. He used this chicken image on a screen for ink color testing.
By the time the company went under and he was laid off, Gregg had many of these chicken test stickers which he printed his phone number on and used as business cards for his new basement business: Big Blue Productions, Uninc.
Eventually he started to hear: "Hey - you're that chicken guy... you print T-shirts". This is when he knew that he could never give up the chicken.
In 1999, after moving out of the house after which Big Blue Productions was named, and expanding to include Gail's graphic design work, they decided to change the name of the business.
After some consideration of how the studio is small with no storefront, yet it has a virtual presence online, Phantom Chicken was hatched in the spring of 2002.
