was all obviously a joke, but they had tried to kick me out a year before that for the exact same thing. It was right when Columbine happened in 1999 and they called the cops, it was pretty wild. Yeah I got kicked out of school and there was big drama… They kicked me out for terrorist threats. I heard you got in some trouble with that. I didn’t know zines were a thing, it was just like my newsletter I made and friends started helping out on it. Then after that I started doing Newsletter, which was a zine I did in high school. There was Fly Man and Maggot Boy and Paper Bag Boy and Karate Kick the Chicken… they were my characters for Trash Can Comics. I only made maybe four or five comic books I just drew them out and I didn’t really make copies. When I was in junior high and the early part of high school I made comic books under Trash Can Comics. I have a minor in graphic design and a degree in journalism. It’s great that when we have something to do like make a flyer or artwork we don’t have to wait for somebody to do it, we can just do it ourselves. Then I took it onto Photoshop, at the time it had two eyes and a nose and he made a face, but I deleted that and on the first maybe ten releases it was the original logo, then we went in and cleaned it up but the G is more defined compared to the old one. Lee drew the logo while he was working a day job at the tax shop – he lived above a tax shop on a horse ranch in Anaheim – and he just doodled it one day. So you design everything yourselves too? How did the Burger logo come about? We’re not numbers people so it’s really difficult. I’m finally getting an accountant but for seven years we were doing all that stuff ourselves. I’m a control freak so it’s hard for me to let go – it’s slowly happening but it’s taking a while. Aren’t there things you can delegate? I’m sure there are so many people who’d love to work with you. I haven’t experienced boredom in a very long time. Even at the end of the day I haven’t finished everything. But yeah part of our thing is following through on stupid ideas, so we’ll get stoned and come up with stupid ideas and make them a reality – that’s kind of how Burger started and how all of our offshoots started too. I fulfil any promise I make, and we say yes a lot so there’s a lot to do. I always do 11am ‘til 4am – I’m a workaholic so that’s what I love to do. Hi Sean! It’s about 2am for you – do you always work such mad hours? How do you keep the momentum up? We spoke to Sean about Burger Records’ visual identity, how making zines got him expelled from school and the crazy hours he keeps. While the designs are mostly created in-house, with Sean either creating original imagery or adapting existing band artwork, Burger works with a range of creative collaborators including Avi Spivak, M Wartella, Sean Soloman and filmmakers Jack Sample (who made the adorable Between Two Buns label documentary while he was still in high school) and Steele O’Neill. That consistently charming identity is in no small part thanks to Burger Records’ graphic look and feel, characterised by punk, cut ‘n’ paste, chaotic clashing colours and fun. Since then, things have blown up into multifarious offshoots – Weiner Records, BRGRTV, BRGR Radio and more – but each still bears the beautifully DIY, all-inclusive vibe of Burger’s beginnings. Burger Records as a label was founded in 2007, with the Burger Records store opening in 2009. The pair met way back in the 90s in their hometown of Anaheim in California, and went on to play in the band Thee Makeout Party together. In true DIY stylings, the label was founded by two guys who just love rock ‘n’ roll and all its accoutrements – the people, the zines, the sleeves, the sofa-surfing buddy-dom – and to this day they do pretty much everything themselves.įrom flyer design to signing bands and even sorting out finances, Sean Bohrman and Lee Rickard do it all. Since emerging in primary colour-clad punk rock ideals and a cloud of marijuana smoke back in 2007, Burger Records is just about the hippest, goofiest, punkest and most democratic record label around.
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