I had just returned with a bunch of other animators from San Francisco visiting Robert Valley and his studio called Maverix studio's. We all returned to Vancouver to find this happening. The papers said it was started by somebody leaving there popcorn on the stove to long. But after a while we heard the real reason it was cause of some ones crystal meth lab.
This fire killed a popular spot for bands to play during the night called Miss T's.
Originally I was looking for Justin Girard Pinball wizard graphics by Andy Howell(I used to actually have the purple t shirt of it which in my opinion was the best color. but who knows where it is now?)
No luck but I did find this. Which is just as "legendary mate".
When I started skateboarding back in the early 90's when it was the most un-popular thing to do.Not like now where it the most mainstream thing to do that it makes me want to puke.Anyways back to my story. Being called "GAY, FAGGOT ", for skateboarding was a common thing for jocks to do when they saw you, and they would threaten to kick your ass aswell, or say "skate or die" as they drove past you. I was little spanish kid whose mom wanted me to dress like the rest of the other preppy spanish kids and play soccer.She hated the fact that I skated,(still does to this day)she thought it would be a phase that would last a month or 2. I heard about Mark Gonzales.I thought he was the only spanish pro in the world.
But then I saw this part in "Ban this": and I just got so stoked that there were more spanish kids that skated and they were killing it.
These are some drawings I did when I first moved here.The girl on top of the guy were making out for like 20 min. While I was drawing them a old asian man with a old camera( the type of camera with the view finder on the top camera) took a picture of them . He looked at me and smiled, and took like 4 or 5 shots of them.
Im going to upload a lot more drawings from my comic, when I have enough money for a new scanner.My old one is still in Montreal under the care of Mike Chui, along with the rest of my stuff. He took that picture of me with wheel chair lady at Coney island. Check out more of his photo's at: