They Killed’em, He Filled’em, I Helped

What it was like to work for a Taxidermist; I got to see a lot of animals from the inside out.

For about a year I was an assistant to a taxidermist. That was as long as my heart and soul were mesmerized by the process of helping to make taxidermy mounts. It was a given that over time the indignity of what was being done to these noble creatures with souls and presence would outweigh my…

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A collection of stories that’s the reverse of “a picture is worth a 1000 words.” These stories of gazillions of things I’ve drawn and wondrous things I’ve made, span decades. Custom art, done right, tells the story without words. It takes a lot of words to get the art right.