Launch of Company
Goldman borrowed money from his father in order to launch David and Goliath, his clothing company. Goldman launched D&G in 2000, in Clearwater, Florida. Primarily a clothing company, D&G also produces sleepwear with various designs, books, bags, and other accessories. Goldman achieved some notoriety for printing merchandise containing "boy-bashing" slogans, including "Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them!", "Boys are smelly", "Boys have cooties", etc. These are featured on t-shirts, bumper stickers, and other accessories. In 2004, Goldman was criticized for the slogans.
In 2005 Goldman authored a book entitled Boys Are Stupid, Throw Rocks at Them! which was also translated into Russian. Goldman released a Boys Are Stupid - The Game based on his artwork by the same name. Goldman also released Stupidopoly, a trading game. Also in 2005, Todd Goldman started selling art in the Jack Gallery.
In 2007, Goldman was accused of plagiarism. In June 2007 Goldman began working with FOX on a show entitled The Uglies, about the ugliest family in the world. Goldman released Girls Are Weirdos But They Smell Pretty in fall of 2007. In 2008, Goldman teamed up with Ashton Kutcher and Kutcher's production partner Jason Goldberg to design an animated original series as seen through the eyes of a group of teenage girls called BLAHgirls.com. In 2008, Goldman was criticized by feminist groups for a shirt alluding to rape. On July 11, 2008, he opened his own gallery, Pop-Factory. Since the gallery's opening Goldman has sold paintings to Jessica Simpson, Rihanna, Paul McCartney, John Goodman and the Wayans Brothers (Marlon, Shawn and Keenen Ivory). Jessica Simpson spent $1000 on a framed lithograph reading, "You say I'm a bitch like it's a bad thing." Rihanna spent $35,000 in a single trip to the Jack Gallery in LA on February 17, 2009. One of the paintings she purchased said, "Fat kids are harder to kidnap." (a popular saying in German culture). A painting which Goldman says is him making fun of society's obsession with being thin. Tori Spelling gave her son, Liam, a copy of Goldman's Girls are Weirdos but They Smell Pretty book.
In 2009, Goldman released two children's books with Random House Publishing – The Zoo I Drew and Animal Soup. The books were published under his pen name of "Todd H. Doodler".
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