founded oklahoma us 2004 2004 founder jeffrey rowland headquarters easthampton massachusetts us area served worldwide products clothing stickers books website topatoco.com the topato corporation styled as topatoco is a widely recognized online retailer of webcomic and related merchandise . it was established around 2004 by artist jeffrey rowland . contents 1 history 2 clients 3 references 4 external links history edit the company was started in oklahoma in about 2004 1 by artist jeffrey rowland 2 after he lost his job in 2004 3 to help sell shirts stickers and other merchandise linked to his webcomics . when the 2004 presidential election was won by george w. bush rowland designed a satirical t shirt and sold 1000 of them in one month . 3 rowland later expanded the business to ship products ordered from friends websites who in 2007 moved their retailing to topatoco . 1 as a result of the expansion the company later moved to easthampton massachusetts . 2 in a 2009 interview rowland stated that he considered the business to be mundane in comparison with the creative development of comics often interfering with the time he wanted to spend doing comics . 3 the company has been described as perhaps the largest and most recognizable e tailer of webcomic merchandise by caleb goellner in comicsalliance 3 and takes its name from the topato potato character in rowland s wigu adventures . 1 rowland has described the company s business philosophy as being give digital stuff away for free sell real stuff . 3 clients edit some cartoonists involved from the early days of the company are jonathan rosenberg richard stevens john allison and meredith gran . 3 in a 2008 interview rowland stated that the big guys in terms of clients were dinosaur comics and dr. mcninja . 2 other clients include questionable content 4 and ms paint adventures . 5 the company found in 2009 that it was growing too quickly and reluctantly turned down some potential clients . 3 references edit a b c what is this whole thing about anyway . topatoco website . topatoco . retrieved 12 september 2012 . a b c marshall rick 21 march 2008 . interview jeffrey rowland on topatoco and overcompensating . comicmix . retrieved 12 september 2012 . a b c d e f g goellner caleb 5 october 2009 . topatoco s jeffrey rowland on overcompensating and the wild west of webcomics . comicsalliance . retrieved 14 september 2012 . braff mike 29 november 2009 . the funn e pages overcompensating . suvudu . retrieved 14 september 2012 . chen jialu 2 august 2011 . see you in the funny pages . the boston globe . retrieved 14 september 2012 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title topatoco & oldid 664795060 categories webcomic publishing companiesmassachusetts culture navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 31 may 2015 at 01 56 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view