This design is inspired by the song BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN from the O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? soundtrack. The song describes what a hobo would consider paradise to be. It’s a land where there are streams of alcohol, no cops, and plenty of free food.

Here we see four hobos with a crude map trying to find the Big Rock Candy Mountains. I chose a brown color scheme to keep with the movies sepia tones.

I love this design so much I am unable to comprehend my own love for it. $6

'HARRY "HAYWIRE MAC" McCLINTOCK (the great), in an interview with SAM ESKIN, folklorist, on a wonderful Folkways LP, tells how and when he WROTE "Big Rock Candy Mountain". He sings the song on that recording but says that the original he'd first written was pretty "adult". He goes on to say (sadly) that some hobos used the story of the fantastic mountain to lure young boys onto the road with them to do work for them "among other things"!''

'Oh Brother' was a great movie though.

this is fantastic

Loooove it.

I really love your characters.

very nice drawing and color choices :)

"lemonade springs" sounds dirty. Nothing wrong with that, I'm just saying...

great style mate ;)

O brother where art thou? is my favourite movie, but this song is only featured in that movie, it isn't from it.

And twunny, you're a moron.

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LOVE this. $5

Amazing! $5

Nice illustration

great job!

Loved it in critiques and love it now. $5!

I love you, Leroy Hornblower

$5!
My type of paradise!
Also a clever idea.

love your characters!

Thanks everyone for the comments. And thank you DaveSmith for that bit of info.

My dad used to play this on his guitar. I knew this song a billion years before O Brother, Where Art Thou? And I love it.

Neat shirt design, too. The art on the map itself strikes me as a little "clean" for the kind of design it is, but I'm 4$-ing it and hoping it's printed.

love this! print please! $$$5

i'd buy it. right now!

I love the racoooooon! AWWW

Love the characters, but the map dosnt seem very map like to me.....
What about something more like -
http://www.anmm.gov.au/webdata/shop/images/image_230_1.jpg
or
http://mathforum.org/~sanders/creativegeometry/9.1map1.gif
...but in your style, with the text hand writen instead of a typed font?

Originally I had intended to hand write all the text, but that also meant I had to make the text larger in order for it to be legible. This led to the map becoming too cluttered, especially on the right side where the hens, lake of stew, and cigarette trees are already squeezed together. In the end I went with the cleaner, smaller, easier to read text.

The style of the map is inspired by the Hundred Acre Wood map by A. A. Milner. I’m a big fan of Winnie-the-pooh, and I instantly fell in love with this map when I saw it.

http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/file.php/2751/E301_1_006i.jpg

Right On!!!

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amazing style 5$

I WANT THAT MAP!

$5 awesome!

The characters fit perfectly, now I won't be able to get that song out of my head the rest of hte day. I love the design, I hope I cna buy it soon.

awesome design, maybe on a brighter colour?

or color the map

NICE

I just posted about this on LovesThreadless.com. Hopefully it'll drive a few more votes your way! :)

Thank you, Mojie.

You're welcome! :)

I hope this gets printed, it's so cute!

wow :] I'd wear this!

I LOVE the hobos! Drawn in that old-fashioned cartoony style. The map is awesome on it's own, but having those hobos there COMPLETELY sells me on it. I love it! $5

haha i watched that again about 2 days ago...

great song... great design

I used to play that song over and over and over again when i was depressed...thanks for capturing the song perfectly in tee form! 5$

Love this design and the song. Just to be picky though, there are cops, it's just they all have wooden legs....

goosebumps...

FIVE.

very well done. $5 for you.

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Good stuff. You could make a shirt just dedicated to the bear character. Bears are awesome.

this is fucking great

terriffic

i love the song