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I love the “before stories” of famous or successful people. I love the stories. Who knows where Randie will wind up… I like to think that I’m writing her “before stories.”
I love the “before stories” of famous or successful people. I love the stories. Who knows where Randie will wind up… I like to think that I’m writing her “before stories.”
Funny material! Love the final punch out.
I love the before stories, especially when the characters begin to see that there will be an “after” story! Hope rocks!
Back in her college days, my wife was a member of an impromptu reading group that consisted of teachers and students in her English Lit “crowd”. One of those fellow students was author Tim Powers, who has since gone on to become an author of some note in the SciFi/Fantasy genre. I was a guest writer at a convention where Tim was the Writer Guest of Honor, and he was really happy to see my wife. We – meaning they *hehe* – chatted old times for a good while.
It’s amazing how down to earth so many famous writers and artists are. Those “before stories” are the TRUE “true life” stories that best reveal who a famous artist is as a normal person.
Do you know Gus Arriola who drew the strip Gordo back in the 80s? He was from your area. He also liked the before stories. His is a story that you might fined interesting. It seems to me that I read something about his connection to “The Lab” too.
I wonder if there were some comic writer wannabe’s in that crowd that we never heard of. I’m sure that not everyone who hung out there became famous.
In a whimsical moment, my grandfather bought a pretty weird caricature painting he came across decades ago. The family still has it in the attic somewhere. It’s signed by some guy named Hirschfeld.
Point is, we cross paths with thousands of people, at least a few of whom are bound to go on to fame and fortune. We can all relate stories of how we once knew so-and-so before they were Somebody. I’m already making up stories about how I knew Bridgett Spicer when she first started, lol!
Gus died not that long ago. He was, indeed, part of the Lab. I did not know him but he lived in Big Sur, I think… maybe Carmel.
I just got done reading “Doc’s Lab, Myths & Legends of Cannery Row”. Gus Arriola was part of the Lab group that met after Ed Ricketts’ death. (see bridgettspicer.com for a blog entry about it). It’s that book that got me thinking about today’s strip…
Wow… a Hirschfeld! Good goin’, gran’dad.
Funny how Randie’s buddy at the aquarium (the octopus) is named Gus… coincidence?
And to us looking back their paths seem so clear, yet to them them the future was a sealed book. As with us.