Todd Alcott
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Todd Alcott is a screenwriter and director turned "graphic-arts prankster" (self-described)[1], whose style mashes up pre-existing midcentury cover art with song lyrics and modern political and pop cultural references. His work first came to the band's attention through his submissions to the official TMBG Tumblr. Alcott describes coming to collaborate with the band as follows:[2]
It started out with me doing funny, cool little birthday greetings and things for friends on Facebook, and then expanded to me making funny, cool little things for the They Might Be Giants tumblr. I did that for a year or two, just to relax while writing things, mind you, and then, oddly enough, a handful of people started asking me to do posters and graphics for them, but, like, for money. And then people started asking me for prints of the funny, cool little things I did. And then just the other day John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants just went ahead and called me up and asked me if I wanted to do their tour posters. But, like, sixty of them, including one for each venue and several general-interest posters. Which, well, I said yes, I would like to do that.
His work featured heavily in the band's marketing and newsletters through the late 2010s, with one used as the cover of the sampler Up To Date. The hard-bound book Cease & Desist collects many of his They Might Be Giants-focused edits.