It’s time ...to vote.
The entries are in, and 6 contestants are eager to show you their craft character creations.
Scroll down to see their artwork up-close, and then tap the VOTING BALLOT to cast your vote.
One of these artists will win the $1,000 prize and create the next full cast of Flingers Craft Characters. And you get to weigh in.
Born in London. Raised in New York. John has lived in Bloomington since 2003. His love for comics inspired his artistic journey and he’s been a fan of Flingers since it was downtown, when you could get half priced Flinger Rolls on Wednesdays. John is married with four adult kids, a dog, and a cat.
Born in London. Raised in New York. John has lived in Bloomington since 2003. His love for comics inspired his artistic journey and he’s been a fan of Flingers since it was downtown, when you could get half priced Flinger Rolls on Wednesdays. John is married with four adult kids, a dog, and a cat.
Born in London. Raised in New York. John has lived in Bloomington since 2003. His love for comics inspired his artistic journey and he’s been a fan of Flingers since it was downtown, when you could get half priced Flinger Rolls on Wednesdays. John is married with four adult kids, a dog, and a cat.
Born in London. Raised in New York. John has lived in Bloomington since 2003. His love for comics inspired his artistic journey and he’s been a fan of Flingers since it was downtown, when you could get half priced Flinger Rolls on Wednesdays. John is married with four adult kids, a dog, and a cat.
Born in London. Raised in New York. John has lived in Bloomington since 2003. His love for comics inspired his artistic journey and he’s been a fan of Flingers since it was downtown, when you could get half priced Flinger Rolls on Wednesdays. John is married with four adult kids, a dog, and a cat.
Born in London. Raised in New York. John has lived in Bloomington since 2003. His love for comics inspired his artistic journey and he’s been a fan of Flingers since it was downtown, when you could get half priced Flinger Rolls on Wednesdays. John is married with four adult kids, a dog, and a cat.
Project Pie is a contest searching for one local artist to create original characters for each of the 21 menu items in our craft character series.
Around the time Flingers re-opened in 2015 as Bloomington-Normal’s home for craft pizza & craft beer, we noticed many major craft brewers putting fun names and labels on their beers.
Three Floyds is a great example. Rather than simple names like 3 Floyds Pale Ale, 3 Floyds Wheat, and 3 Floyds IPA, they created Zombie Dust, Gumballhead, and Lazersnake…and each with its own custom artwork. In the ice cream world, Ben & Jerry’s does something similar. Each pint features its own wacky name and a cool design, like Cherry Garcia or Half Baked.
So we thought: if Flingers is really a place with craft pizza, why not go all-in and apply that idea to our own suite of original menu items? Only one problem: we’re not artists. We can come up with fun names, but someone else needs to create all these characters. How can we find that person?
That’s Project Pie: our search for one local artist to create original characters that personify each of our craft pizza creations, giving them their own visual identity.
To keep it fair and compare apples to apples, everyone who enters must create the same 4 characters: your renditions of the Super Freak, the Flinger Rolls, the General Cheesebomb, and one wild card of your choice. Then we’ll select a Top 10, Flingers fans weigh-in with their vote, we name a Final Four, and determine the winner live at our Grand Finale Event. It’s a little like Shark Tank meets American Idol, livestreamed on YouTube. At the end of the show, the winner gets a big cash prize and then has all winter to finish the rest of the craft characters before they’re all featured in the new menus after the first of the year.
Flingers is your pizza pub. And we’re turning over one of the most important parts of our identity to you –because our customers are collaborators, not cardboard cutouts. So if you’re an artist, or if you know an artist, let them know this contest is going on and direct them to this page. It’s Project Pie. Let’s see what you got.
