I moved to Eureka, Calif., because I bought a magazine. One day I was working at the SF Weekly in San Francisco as an editor in the classifieds department and I got a call from a guy named Guy in Eureka. At the time, I was writing CD reviews for the SF Weekly, and Guy wanted to reprint some of my reviews in his local arts and entertainment magazine called Edge City. After a year of sending him reviews and getting a small check in return each month, he called me and asked if I would place an ad in the SF Weekly for him so he could sell his business. He was planning to move to Santa Fe, N.M., and wanted to find somebody to take over his little operation. At the time, I was dating Lara, the office manager at the SF Weekly, and the two of us decided we wanted to try our hand at publishing our own magazine. We paid Guy a little money, quit our jobs, and moved to Eureka where we published a magazine for the next six years. After the first couple of years, we decided to change the name of the magazine from Edge City to Anthem so we could call it our own. As a fan of comics, I spent many hours hovering over my drawing table trying to create full-page cartoons for the magazine. Here is the cover of Anthem’s first issue and a few of the cartoons I drew during my days in Eureka.
Anthem Cartoons
10 Reproduction Destruction 93.jpg
11 Eyeland 5-93.jpg
13 Anthem Cover 1-94.jpg
15 Sombrero 94.jpg
16 Bastards 10-95.jpg
17 Smile 95.jpg
