The skinny Back in 1987, my buddy Cory Freeman and I were killing time throwing around ideas for greeting cards we would attempt to create and sell at UNR. We batted around generalities, like a snide jerk as the main character and his naive, bubbleheaded girlfriend. There would be a punk skateboarder who would constantly get his butt kicked (remember that old Warner Bros. cartoon with the dog, cat and the hummingbird? "No! Not the cement mixer!" "No! Not the Thinker!"). A brainy-and-brawny black dude and a slutty Japanese girl who had the hots for him. There was a muscle-bound Mohician who could only speak in lyrics. And since Political Correctness wasn't yet in vogue, we had a Mexican graffiti artist and the most stereotypical gay since that black guy in "Mannequin." Cory came up with the names for Armpit Beachhead, Rocket Tudemax, Manhattan, Rupert Sprayface and Maggot, while Puppy Fizgig, Sunset, Les Studly, Chippie Tenderloin and Dwayne Ungerhill were mine (Chippie Tenderloin? What was I thinking?). Wanna see my first lame-o sketch of Armpit? How about Puppy?

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