knew each other for 4 years online before we met in Person, (and we met in person at the freaking World Trade Center) at the Reubens in NYC that year 2000..
Here's a FREAKY aside - the guy that runs the Wisenheimer cartoon board drew me a cartoon (they all do, you can get ANY of them to do it, so much fun) of ME FALLING from the top of the World Trade Center..
Anyway Mike is REALLY a regular approachable guy, hilarious and with that midwestern (raised in the same area I was) dry, playful humor.. and his cartoons are awesome..
Don't know if any DU'rs know that I did cartooning for a while (basically so I could hang out with the other cartoonists), but I still have about 50 of what I consider my better toons of a character I created called "Mr Nice" ..
You can see my toons at
http://www.mrnice.com :)
And the reason I call myself "Symbolman" is for my other site (where I won a Hollywood award for my animation using only international symbols to tell a story - so that anyone on the planet can understand it - as a matter of fact the Symbolman animations are from a complete Book I "wrote" using symbols to tell a whole story 58 pages long, trying to get that published, and by a DUr!) You can see the symbolman animations at:
http://www.symbolman.comThanks for bringing up some GREAT Memories (except for the Trade Towers stuff - my wife and I can't go back and celebrate where we stayed our first night together, it ain't there no more..) of Mike and all the other incredible cartoonists..
Here's a fun thing you might not know - the cartoonist "Revilo" who does killer cards (and is a REALLY FUN GUY to hang out with, him and Wiley, another pal of ours) is actually named Oliver, backwards makes REVILO :)
And if you want one of the COOLEST T-shirts ever made by a cartoonist who is the FUNNIEST guy I've ever met go here:
http://www.JesusvsBush.comDan Piraro of "Bizarro" did it, just got the email yesterday :)