There’s a snake in my boot…and….I started drawing when I was 4. I could draw a 3dish house when I was in kindergarten. I never really gave up on drawing/art making. It’s something I always did. I remember trying to make comics and failing a lot as I got older. I also painted, made sculptures and tried lots of other media. My grandma was an artist and when I was 12 she told me I wasn’t serious about making art. I just kept doing it. I had stretches with no jobs out of high school. I worked with some folks on an underground/public access tv show for a year. Got my first paid gigs.I remember going to Denny’s and drawing with the late night crowd. It wasn’t until I was 23-24 that I had a switch flip and headed toward turning pro. I was drawing 20-40 hrs a week when I applied to art school. I had been working in tv production, and had gotten as far as I was going to get at that point. I thought I was going to go to art school…then LA wasn’t going to work, I would go back to Anchorage and start a small studio and do more commercial production. LA wasn’t working out, I was getting pitch meetings, but never got a green light. My lady and I were going to have our first baby, So back to Alaska. I was working in TV again, but this time it went about a year, and hit a wall, the station was super toxic. So back to school for art education. At first it was one class…and that was cool…and I went for a Masters. I’ve been teaching k-12 for 7 years and I taught college for 3. Covid has been a roller coaster. I guess I’m at the mid way point career wise and approaching middle age... Things have changed so many times and I’ve moved and moved my family a bunch of times. It’s been a wild ride…but I still keep plugging away at my world building and comics, the occasional poke at politicians etc. Really I still just want to make art, spend time with friends and family hunt and fish…KISS. And because I’ve stayed teaching I’ve had to constantly re-up my basic skills…and work in different mediums that are outside my comfort zone. Trade Unions non-contract unions are the best chance we have to fight the fash and make our lives better, fuck political parties…and KEEP MAKING ART KIDS!!!