All I knew about it was from the flyer which described a slice-0f-life story about a circus sideshow in 1932. I saw a notice for it at the student union building at Pratt in ’63. I think it was someone from Pratt who got a print and was showing it in various places. So, there was that element, the older people, and they would hold events now and then. There were people at Pratt coming off the beatnik world. I was always tuning into odd things in the culture. I just had a romantic idea of what it was like to be an artist. At that point, I thought I was going to become Vincent Van Gogh, Jr. And I had no idea that I would eventually become a cartoonist. Okay, 1963, I was in my sophomore year at Pratt Institute Art School in Brooklyn, New York. I love getting the flavor of a time and place. There’s a number of jumping off points, maybe we can start with what it was like for you as a young struggling artist, going back to 1963, and your first viewing of Todd Browning’s 1932 cult classic, Freaks. I want to start with talking about your creation, Zippy the Pinhead and moving right along into your work in bringing Schlitzie onto the page.
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