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Nico and Pancho Story / posted 2/26 and 2/27, 2013
13 years ago
General
This story was one I created during the spring of 1995. Watching the movie, "Lion King", the year before, gave me some creative inspiration to putting something like this together. The sketches were started September of 1994, and was completed as a book manuscript in March of 1995, including typewriter text (can be seen on #42, and in a July 2012 posting on Yiffy). Typewriter was the present technology in those days.
During that time, I could never get a book publisher interested in it. And art work web sites didn't exist at that time, nor did the internet. And there were no other copies, as home digital formats were also nonexistent. You could imagine how art looks photographed with Polaroid, 35mm and 110. And 8.5 x 11, color copies were well over $2 each in 1995, with colors often being poor, compared to 50 cents today. Color copying the manuscript would have been over $100 in 1995.
The story got it's first public appearance in a July 2012 posting on Yiffy, when I came across it, after years of not knowing where it was. Having had no copies of it, I can only thank God that the silverfish, mice, squirrels and mold didn't get to it during those years before it was found, going through some junk, in a leaky utility barn. Had that happened, it would have never been seen by the public, unknown, lost and secret forever.
As it was, it was found in pristine condition. I am now making digital format copies of it, now that the technology exists, and posting it on other art sites. Eventually, the paper the originals are on will age.
Moyomongoose
During that time, I could never get a book publisher interested in it. And art work web sites didn't exist at that time, nor did the internet. And there were no other copies, as home digital formats were also nonexistent. You could imagine how art looks photographed with Polaroid, 35mm and 110. And 8.5 x 11, color copies were well over $2 each in 1995, with colors often being poor, compared to 50 cents today. Color copying the manuscript would have been over $100 in 1995.
The story got it's first public appearance in a July 2012 posting on Yiffy, when I came across it, after years of not knowing where it was. Having had no copies of it, I can only thank God that the silverfish, mice, squirrels and mold didn't get to it during those years before it was found, going through some junk, in a leaky utility barn. Had that happened, it would have never been seen by the public, unknown, lost and secret forever.
As it was, it was found in pristine condition. I am now making digital format copies of it, now that the technology exists, and posting it on other art sites. Eventually, the paper the originals are on will age.
Moyomongoose
