isn't the internet super-awesome?
if we had it when i was a little kid, we wouldn't have had the highly inefficient underground black market of porn (ripped pages found at the creek, stolen mags from older brothers, the really weird practice of trading mags, hitting up that weird kid in school that had always had porn somehow, the stand in front of a bookstore and ask some dude to buy you porn). i digress... anyway, googling for a hand sign painter, I found this dude... Raphael Boguslav, old school graphic design head that did the New York Life logo, the Keebler logo, and the ones you see above... check out his site.

also, i haven't found a sign painter yet... if you know one in nyc, hit me up.