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-Even at my age, I feel like
a professional child because

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I have to have whimsy.

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And that's my purpose
of being a cartoonist.

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so I feel grateful for that.

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♪♪

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My work is probably meticulously
rendered ridiculousness.

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Every image you see of mine
has some kind of purpose.

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I've sometimes ruined a drawing
by getting a little OCD

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on the crosshatching.

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The quality of it
is very meticulous,

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but the spirit of
it is ridiculous.

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My creative process involves
solving problems for people if

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they need an album cover, if
they need a poster, or if

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they need a sticker, or
if they need a t-shirt.

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That's what gets me started with
thinking of creative ideas.

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That was just at the
Olympia Film Festival

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just a couple months ago.

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They're all event posters
for the most part.

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This was a Black Sabbath
tribute show that was just

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at the Clock Out Lounge.

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My work has appeared in
Mad Magazine, Nickelodeon

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Magazine, National
Geographic Kids Magazine,

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various record labels like
Sub Pop and Estrus Records.

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I'm so old, there's so
many different places

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it's appeared, I can't
think of them all.

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[laughter]

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♪♪

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Yeah, music related art is
my favorite thing to do.

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I'm a big music fan.

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I love the idea of
promoting a show

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or doing a record cover.

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It has to be a band that I
like and am inspired by,

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and I like to do it with
people that I know.

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♪♪

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I jokingly like to say
that I'm the product

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of frisky art students.

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My dad was a cartoonist
in the Navy,

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and then he met my
mom at art school.

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My family all were artists,
and my whole family drew,

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And I thought that was
normal, so very early it

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got ingrained into my mind
about being in cartoons.

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And a lot of it had to do
with my mom and dad drawing

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in front of me a lot.

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[pencil gently scratches paper]

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I start off with a small rough
draft, you know, 8 1/2 by 11.

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Then I blow it up to the size
of my actual drawing paper,

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and then I tape it on the back,
and then I draw it again.

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[paper crumpling]

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This is just like a hint.

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And then I draw it a little
bit nicer when I pencil it.

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And then I get out the ink,
and I draw it again with ink,

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so it actually gets
drawn several times.

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[crowd cheering]

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-Yeah, and it's nice to be here.

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You guys seem like you're
in a good mood tonight.

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Is that true?

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Are you feeling good tonight?

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My animations started with the
documentary "Derailroaded."

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It was a documentary
about Wild Man Fischer.

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♪ Shut up ♪

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- Then I did that Replacements
video for “Shut Up”

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from the “Sorry Ma” album.

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And then recently
there's a documentary

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about Kevin Cole from
KEXP called “Radio Heart.”

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- I turn around and it's Prince
and he's holding an acetate.

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- An awful monster.

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- This is a poster I did for
Fitzgerald's reunion show

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There's lots of
original art in here.

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The world's shortest St.
Patrick's Day parade.

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This is some of the
ideas that I had

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for the Rainier
poster this year.

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You can kind of see
how it developed.

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Original sketches for my
ideas for the Rainier Day.

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R Day is an annual event
that Rainier Beer has.

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They contacted me about doing
a comic book themed poster

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for the event, and eventually I
designed the stage banners too.

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♪ ♪

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So that one and one of these?

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All right.

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You want them in a tube?

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♪♪ 

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All right, this is the new one.

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They just got printed yesterday.

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In 2025, I did the posters.

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In 2026, they asked
me to do it again.

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I never thought in
a million years

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they'd use the same artist
two years in a row,

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but it did really well.

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It's surreal to see your
artwork all over the place

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and to see it so large
and for such a big event.

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So it's an honor.

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The 3D or the 2D?

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These are all down to
like the last maybe five.

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This was just in April.

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When people look at my
work, I want them to smile.

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I want them to look at
it for a long time.

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And I want them
to become curious

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about what the purpose
of this artwork is.

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And if the artwork
served its purpose,

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which is to make
them buy the record

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or go to the show or
whatever it may be.

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I'm a professional child.

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I draw cartoons.

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I think of myself as part
of the youth culture,

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but sometimes I'm
harshly reminded

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that I'm not part of the
youth culture anymore.

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I still participate in it.

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That's just who I am.

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I'm always gonna be into music.

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I'm always gonna be into art.

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I'm always gonna
be into cartoons.

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I'm always gonna be
into being a goofball,

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and that's what I'll
be to the grave.

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♪♪