They also had me do that Conan piece for them and dropped 1200 bucks in my lap for my trouble. Not bad for a kid that had barely gotten his feet wet in the business.
In case you were trying to twist your neck off to look at the illustration. Here it is right side up.
I think Mike has a good point about the lamb-chops(Side-burns) but the original guy didn't have them.
I blurred some content so as not to give any spoilers.
Really, I only saw Heavy Metal one time.
Diving in and out of the audience working the place up into a frenzy.
They'll be playing in San Francisco I think tonight and tomorrow. Then they're off to Portland, then Seattle.
Dani Michaeli gives the thumbs up to Tuck's story.
I'm running a little slow today or I'd have pulled the prick out of the driver side. But thinking about it now, it's probably better that I didn't as it could have escalated the incident in speed and danger to others.
I told the prick I took a picture of his license plate but he decided to continue his get away.
So if you see the asshole out and about be sure and tip the Man to his where abouts.
He sculpted this piece for me not too long after hearing the story.
He got the eye buldge just right. I wish he had more time to sculpt. He beez good at it.Thats kind of a long story Max. But I'll see if I can bang out the abridged version for you.
One dark night, back in the late 20th century.I walked out of the Cartoon Loft at 60 Warren street. I was heading back up town to a friends fancy shmancy Penthouse at 23rd street that I was house/cat sitting. (When living in a loft with 6 or 7 cartoonists and or their girlfriends, one jumps at the chance to sit around fart without ten witnesses)As I'm leaving I see my buddy Bob Camp standing across the street staring up at a fire escape. I go over to see whats up, and he tells me his girlfriend's cat (that he is cat sitting)has wandered out on to the neighbor's fire escape. He is trying to figure out how to climb up and get it down. (Yes I know we're both idiots) Being as I have no trouble with heights. I used to climb up the outside of our fire escape, rather than use the stairs to get to our loft on a near daily basis. So I say "Stand back Bob , I got this."
In three grabs and a hoist, I'm on said Fire escape and calling the aforementioned kitty. I should mention here that as soon as I attained the first landing, it started to rain. It was about 3 or 4 in the morning so when I go to lower the ladder. I did so with the greatest of care trying not to disturb the neighbors. I lowered it very quietly down through its' guiding slot. Then turn and pick up the cat. At this point I received a warning from on high in the form a monstrous thunder clap. But do I listen? No I do not. I swing out on to the ladder. At which time my good friend Bob asks the very pertinent question."Is that ladder secure?"To wit I answer "I hope so.'At this time the ladder that I had so gingerly lowered, chose to slip off of the stand pipe that I had inadvertently lowered it on to. So I had two choices. I could A. Watch my left hand that was gripping the now moving ladder, pass through the same slot as the ladder turning my hand into hamburger. Or B. Release the ladder. Toss the cat back to the fire escape and fall the twenty feet or so back to the pavement.Trying my damnedest to get my arms and legs behind me so I don't crush my spine.
Since both options included a plummet to the ground. I chose Option B. the less bloody of the two, since I would still have fingers to put behind me to break my fall. While falling I did manage to get my appendages behind me to absorb the impact. My right foot took the most damage. Dislocating the bones across the top of my foot. The left foot only had a couple of smaller bones broken, and whole lot of soft tissue damage. My right wrist I broke one of the small bone between the wrist and the thumb. My left hand was spared some damage no doubt because as I fell, I narrowly missed landing on Bob, all except for his right foot which absorbed the impact of my left hand. As I recall it nicely bruised the top of his foot. The only reason I'm not in a wheel chair is that at the time as in pretty good shape and strong enough to use my arms and legs as crumple zones. I hadn't had my air bags installed yet.
So long story short (Well kind of short)that is how I ended up on crutches and with a limp that lasted almost two years.
Lots of nice things came of it though. While I was laying in a demerol haze in hospital, my good friends banded together and had a benefit party for me. They pulled together what seemed to me a small fortune so that I could keep eating during my recovery.
It was also the accident that pushed me to driving a Limo for Saturday Night Live for a year.
Phil Hartman was great tipper until he married that crazy bitch who latter killed him.
And no its not a joke. I was a driver for SNL and Paul Simon for a while.
