An artist consortium dedicated to hand-printing badass poster art. Buy art!
Happyface Empire is an art creation and reproduction company that specializes in unique, ORIGINAL, limited-run, hand-pulled screenprints. The explicit mission statement for Happyface Empire is to print in-house art EXCLUSIVELY for the foreseeable future. When and if we ever conquer our personal backlogs of printing projects, we hope to offer our services to up and coming artists whose work we feel embodies our attitude toward art and life.
29/03/2026
And we're blocked again! Apparently we pi**ed off some fascist-loving little turd in the Failbook fantasy camp.
So why fight it? F**k these losers for harrassing working artists. Happyface Empire will be leaving this dump, and I kindly ask any real friends and fans on here to look us up elsewhere.
Zuckerberg can jump into a goddamn volcano. Bitch.
03/03/2026
He's back!
Man, the original print run of Monkey Cosmonaut 1 was SMALL. I sold out of most of the foil versions years ago. Last century, even!
So in comes a proper round two. I tried to keep the style and vibe of the first poster. People remark on what it could mean, but I never really hear the truest version from my heart.
Hint. His rage is valid, but unrelated.
Artist proofs going up this week at and Bagel Sphere!
28/02/2026
He's ready! And... Grumpy!
Monkey Cosmonaut Death Sentence 2, final official color mix. FLASHY!!
15/02/2026
Shirts!
We've got a ton of new designs, and some classics, available on the website and more being added throughout the week. The newer ones we will be printing to order, on both v-neck and crew neck shirts, using the best quality inks for lasting color and durability.
Everything by hand! Feel the slap of love ❤️
13/02/2026
He's back!!
To celebrate our 10th year printing original artwork, we are finally producing the sequel to the OG beloved faux monkey movie,
"Money Cosmonaut Death Sentence 2!"
Abandoned by Mankind and hurled into space, for Science! Our hero continues his quest through the blackest unknown to find his way home, and, probably, Revenge!
24x36" foils revealing soon, for sale soon after.
10/02/2026
10 years!
Happyface Empire has been screen printing original artwork, by hand, for a full decade. We might not be great at this online stuff, obviously, but we love being able to create affordable artwork for people, being able to speak our minds in the community through humor and graphic imagery, and helping other artists understand the centuries old techniques that enable education without the internet.
We are going to figure this out.
21/12/2025
I feel like I've got one great band left in me.
Hope it is in Drop B so I can continue to play this f'in' from
15/04/2025
Layering color cleanly onto that green glitter paper takes some extra effort. Two more to go...
29/12/2024
Celebrating our 9th year as Happyface Empire. Thank you for your continuing support! Here's a piece of garbage AI art from Facebook :)
10/12/2024
There's still time to buy some kickass art gifts for the ones you love! Shipping is all FREE and we ship FAST and SAFE!
Hand-printed and limited, check out the website for our huge selection!
Link in bio, have a wonderful season.
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What?!
Dangerous, gorgeous, often utterly strange.
Usually provocative. Possibly ridiculous.
All prints are limited-run and gone when gone.
That has been the central philosophy of Happyface Empire since it was formed in 2015. NO REPRINTS means always focusing on the next piece to come, and not lingering on the preciousness of originals. Everything is screenprinted by hand with the highest quality materials, often adding customized color and paper variation throughout the runs so that nearly every poster is unique. Printing art onto paper, wood panels, plexiglass, flooring, metal, signs, door skins, and anything else interesting and flat is the eternal monkey/back scenario.
Erik Roggeveen - Founder, artist, human printing machine.
Lisa de Rave - Print assist on the swivel, business maker.
Trained by wolves who were terrible artists, but otherwise self-discovered and educated. Designed and built an entire functioning printshop TO CODE, recently added a framing and woodworking side complex. Process generally involves starting with pencil sketches and composition/layout design, then scanning into a PC for inking and coloring in various programs, and finally separating into layers for screenprinting. Working under the company name and signing only “EJR” has been freeing from the pressures of notoriety.