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So where did your interest in Bigfoot come from and why did you decide to startpainting Bigfoot characters?

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It’s been about 14 years now since I decided to start writing Bigfoot. I realized the symbolism of Bigfoot was the culmination of all things I was into portraying, nature, magic and an opposition to the modern human world.

“If I stayed in Jersey I would definitely be making art but wouldn’t have started writing Bigfoot and would’ve ended up doing hard time for like 2 grams of weed.”

Graffiti artists have the luxury of hiding behind their artwork. I have met tons of graffiti artists and there are a lot of dorks, social idiots and loners in the graffiti game myself included. But they have a unique talent, graffiti is illegal, above the law, the act of graffiti has street credibility, so for a lot of people it serves as an alter ego. Is this the case for you as well?

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At New York Comic Con, I got a chance to check out a number of scenes from the upcoming documentary on writer Grant Morrison. Morrison’s best known for his creation, The Invisibles, but also for his reinvention of various comic characters for both DC and Marvel.

Morrison seems a fascinating character study, from consulting with John Lennon (yep, still deceased) to becoming the characters he creates, I’m sure editing the project down to documentary length will prove difficult.

Morrison explains a lot with his description of his formative years and lessons from his parents. His father was ex-military, but later become an anti-war activist. His mother looking into the night sky with young Grant pointed up to the stars and said, “We’re from there.”

Looking forward for to this final project titled, Talking With Gods, from filmmaker Patrick Meaney. Wired interviewed Meaney regarding the film back in July, around San Diego Comic Con. Here’s the link.

I’ve had my eye on the various projects that have come through Kickstarter, so it was great to attend their panel at New York Comic Con. If you’re not familiar with Kickstarter, perhaps you should check out their website, and then come back for the rest of this post. It’s okay, I’ve got a call on the other line anyway. We can catch up in a little bit.

Hey, you’re back. So you know by now that Kickstarter is a vehicle for funding creative projects: graphic novels, video games, books, movies,…even magazines. Once you have your wonderful idea, you create a video to host on Kickstarter, determine the premiums you’ll award at different contribution levels, and set a deadline for funding. Reach 100% and you get the funding minus Kickstarter’s fees and a fee for process the payment through Amazon Payments. (Overall, I think it might be slightly less than 10%.)

We seriously need to consider this as an option for getting out the next issue of The Art of Storytelling. I’m not joking. Not only would we be funding our publication, but in a sense we would already be preselling it.

I know a bunch of creative types have been checking out what we’ve doing, so I figured it be worth bringing Kickstarter to people’s attention.

Here’s a video of the Kickstarter panel.

THIS ARTICLE ORIGINALLY RAN IN THE ART OF STORYTELLING MAGAZINE ISSUE #1.

There was this spot on other side of my town that I started hearing about when I was really young. Some of the older kids said, ‘’You got to go to the spot on the other side of town; it’s called “The Bowl.” We had our own jumps that we called “The Brook” because you had to jump over the Brook. The Brook was right down the street from my house. I lived in Clifton, New Jersey and it was a pretty big town. The Bowl was on the other side of Clifton, which was probably still close to five miles away. When you’re in the fourth or fifth grade that’s really far. We had our own local scene and we didn’t go that much further, but one day we did a little voyage over to the bowl and it was just the sickest spot ever.

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“This dude Hodges, that crazy motherfucker. I still remember him burning all his hair off. He used to do a lot of acid and he had some braids. He bugged out one night and burned off all his hair.”

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