I made lots of great friends pre-internet through trading zines and writing letters.

I laugh when people say that print is dead. I think there is a gap between indie magazines like XLR8R and the little mini-comic, but other than that, the print culture is effin’ great. If anything, it has pushed people that do print to make their shit better. You can’t just crap out a 60-page Xerox that you made in an hour and expect folks to dig it. There is such an eye for craft, and everything looks so good.ĭo you skateboard? Do you feel any connection to skate culture? Now everybody is using Gocco, silkscreening, letterpressing, and hand-binding. I still skate about once a month, when I feel the inspiration and have the time both at the same moment. All the cement parks here in Oregon are so effin’ nice. I grew up with skaters, and skate art was a lot of my early influence. Neil Blender and Mark Gonzales are definitely early influences, and I flipped out when I got to be in an art show with Blender and met him some years back.

I used to do boards for Dogtown back in the early ’90s. Now I do some for Hessenmob, and maybe a board for Krooked soon.ĭo you have any moral qualms with using your art to advertise a product? Those graphics really sucked ass, but I loved that I got to do them.

You definitely won’t see my interpretation of the new H4 crawling over the earth, or one of my characters smoking a Camel Light. But if I like the product then it’s fine. I love that Gary does all the Cranium art, and that Dangle has his work on. What styles of music are you into? Does music play a role in your artistic process? When Charles Burns did the Levi’s ads that was rad, too. I love Prefuse 73, Juana Molina, Brazilian Girls, Blackalicious, Dudley Perkins, St. Tropez, Slint, Pretenders, The Clash, Spoon, AC Newman.

Bwana spoons gary