CLASSIC GRAPHICS -- Against the Odds

Despite their lack of experience, the two were determined to make their new venture work. "When we only had to work five 12-hour days in a week it felt like we were getting a vacation. In the early years, we usually worked 14- and-16-hour days six or seven days a week. We put in some unbelievable hours because we were doing so much of the work ourselves. But that's why you do it when you are young," Pitts chuckles.