The Only Burning Passion I'm Sure I

They Were Just Snapshots, Nothing Special, Nothing Particularly Artistic. They Were Used For Utility Purposes. (on Photographs Of Mundane Streetscapes He Had Stanley Something-or-other Take In Sacramento In 1988 To Serve As Backgrounds To His Cartoons. People Don't Draw It, All This Crap, People Don't Focus Attention On It Because It's Ugly, It's Bleak, It's Depressing... But, This Is The World We Live In; I Wanted My Work To Reflect That, The Background Reality Of Urban Life. )

Drawing Is A Way For Me To Articulate Things Inside Myself That I Can't Otherwise Grasp.

I'm Into Old-time Music, I'm Not Very Interested In Modern, Popular Music At All. And If I'm Really Into Some Particular Old-time Musician, Some Fiddler Or Banjo Player, I'm Always Dying Of Curiosity To See What They Look Like.

I Guess I Didn't Enjoy Drawing Very Much. It Was Like Homework.

The Fine-art World Knows Very Little About The Cartoon World.