Sneaky,Sneaky.....

So I was going over some proofs for the book, and had a story come across my desk while I was chatting with some friends. The writer is PRETTY crazy, but really cool. Anyhow she brought this over, and as I read it I started to laugh.....because of the context and because it gave me visuals as I was reading. Needless to say I wanted to either draw it myself or give it to one of the other artists to let loose on---at least this way I don't have my hands on everything. I couldn't resist so here it is just a taste from one of the short story writers Alex Taylor.

This is the story of Albert Morales-the third. He left Corpus Christi, Texas, after the sad death of the beloved Selena, for the best land, Phoenix AZ. He came to this land in search of a fairy tale dream: cigars, cartoon comics, pizza, paint, & beer. He came in search of love & art, & he found that in the best damned land of Phoenix. How did he become the Baddest Man In The Whole Damn Land, how did he become a Killa? Good question. The answer is even better. He had been lying beside his girl one night as they lay in the tall, artificial grass staring at the crystal clear stars in the dark Phoenix sky, when he realized he was truly the baddest & he needed to prove what a killa he truly was. He set out on this mission: taking the whole damn land by a dusty, desert storm. As he road up from the fake, green ground; dust swiveled & swirled around. Raising this bad man up to the intense depths of the sky & into the heights of heaven, he was touched by the very hands of God & shown the way to greatness. Everything he touched, anything he set his mind to he achieved. He set forth selling cigars, but ended up smoking up all the first months merchandise. In order to make up the money to payback, the loan from his cigar shoppe, he put his two magic hands to create a marvelous new art: Albertism. He created marvelous works, comic book works of marvel & wonder. He found he did it so well that he chose artwork & comics as his means of living. He sold tons of his comics before painting & working with oil paints. Now he has Phoenix & the world torn up in his dust devil horns. He works at painted with oil & runs with the wildest of wolves eating desert muskrats & small rodents & leaving the dogs back in the dog house. He's hitting the top, riding the firey wings of the hot Phoenix. Look out for this Killa, The Baddest Man In The Whole Damn Land. He'll blow dust in yo' eyes, knock yo' ass out, & surprise you with it again.