Right around the time the Beatles were

topping the charts, John was a child,

drawing stick figures and racecars on

large pieces of newsprint he pillaged

from his first-grade teacher.

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All the while, a relentless barrage of

wedgies, Indian rope burns and sleeper

holds from two older brothers couldn’t

stop his continuous fascination with

drawing and animation.

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When he wasn’t watching Buggs Bunny,

Fractured Fairy Tales and the Brady

Bunch, he was immersed in Marvel

Comics, Mad Magazine and Elizabeth

Montgomery– not in that order.

 

John continued to draw, finding inspiration from artists like Robert Crumb, Bill Plympton and Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (Moebius). His interest in animation was accompanied by a love of black-and-white ink illustration. He didn’t start using color until he was well into his twenties and still enjoys a nice monochrome dalliance to this day.