'Toons

Upon quitting my longtime job as manager of the Biograph Theatre, 23 years ago, my very first sitting at the totally independent cartoonist’s drawing board resulted in a rather dark vision of the West Grace Street neighborhood I knew so well and had just fled. Bad mood? What was up?

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Well, the street itself had recently been switched from one-way traffic to two-way. That was an extremely unusual thing to do -- city planning-wise and a big mistake, in my book, both then and now. Yes, I still think it was a goof and it's fun to have been right. Plus, it seemed to me then that local popular culture, in general, had hitched a ride in the absolute wrong direction, too. Disco, Heavy Metal or Hardcore? That was suddenly the choice, scene-wise.

Ah, times were changing and I had moved on, or so I thought. Perhaps, in truth, I was sitting still while all else moved on.