Updated 1 year ago

This was me:

I knew Martin Wagner when we lived at the Jester dorm at the University of Texas in early 1987. One day he came to me with a proposition – some of his original drawings of his cartoons that he was drawing for the Daily Texan had gone missing, and he suspected a rival artist had stolen them, and he knew I knew skinheads… who, you could almost say, were, like the mafia in Goodfellas, the police for people who could not go to the police.
…so he was gonna hire ME to hire the skins to get the art back. I started putting out feelers in the skinhead community and got some immediate Yes’s.
But alas, false alarm, he had misplaced it, but he wrote me into his strip in the Daily Texan as a character named “solo” (my nickname was “Han” in college) who had a mohawk, as I did:
This was serious bragging rights to fellow comics geeks who understood his initial promise.
Sadly the strips from the ‘Texan aren’t easily accessible on the Internet (either need to be a student or finagle time in the microfiche, I assume).
We had a lot of famous people during that time period – off the top of my head, in addition to all the talented locals there was Wes Anderson, Robert Rodriguez, Owen Wilson, Matthew McConaughey, Richard Linklater, and Jon Hamm of Mad Men, who famously got arrested and charged and sentenced for hazing. In 1990 at Sigma Nu he put some poor rush’s balls in a hammer claw and pulled him around the frat house (that was probably covered in Spuds McKenzie posters) sending him to the hospital. Ouch!
