Todd Goldman
Todd Harris Goldman is an American entrepreneur/artist. He is the founder of David and Goliath, a merchandise company which produces clothing, posters and other merchandise featuring a variety of slogans. According to the Wall Street Journal, the sales volume of David and Goliath was US$ 1 Billion since 2000. Goldman is known as the most renown living pop artist of our time.
Career
Goldman achieved some notoriety for "boy-bashing" slogans including "Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them!," which is featured on t-shirts, bumper stickers, and other accessories sold by "David and Goliath". In 2005 he authored a book of the same name (ISBN 0-7611-3593-6)[1] which was also translated into Russian.[2]
Goldman has been the target of criticism for his marketing and slogans. In 2004, Los Angeles based radio host and men's rights activist Glenn Sacks initiated a campaign against the "Boys are Stupid..." T-shirts claiming that they were part of a general societal mood that stigmatized and victimized boys.[3] The campaign led to the line of shirts being pulled from several thousand retailers across the United States in 2005.[4]
Goldman was named as number 97 on Bernard Goldberg's 2005 list of 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America. Goldberg also criticized Goldman's slogans for being part of what he called a boy-bashing craze, in which the makers of related products do not realize (or do not care) that young men have higher rates of depression and suicide than young girls in America. Goldman responded to the criticism, stating that he "hopes to be ranked higher next year."[5]
In October 2007 Goldman released the book "Girls Are Weirdos But They Smell Pretty!"
References
- ^ "Boys Are Stupid, Throw Rocks at Them!." Barnes and Noble. Accessed September 30, 2008.
- ^ Все мальчишки - дураки! А девчонки - умницы! (All boys are stupid! Girls are clever!) Dobraya Kniga, 2006. ISBN 5-98124-106-3.
- ^ http://www.hisside.com/campaign_boys_are.htm - Accessed: April 10, 2007
- ^ "Guy Trouble." People. June 6, 2005.
- ^ http://www.davidandgoliathtees.com/index.php?mode=CW - Accessed: April 10, 2007
External links
- Todd Goldman Myspace
- Archive of legal letter presented to Wired magazine - A Wired blog post about Goldman was removed
- Cartoonist pokes fun at self and spread smiles
- Goldman puts art in cartoon
- Todd Goldman : Professional Doodler
- The Simple Life Denver Westword
- 'Stupid Factory' creator is 'post-pop' sensation: you can call Todd Goldman's art controversial, but don't call him, or his art, a fad Art Business News
- Artist Profile: Todd Goldman Art Business News