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This is maybe my favorite sketch of all time. Memorial Day weekend, 2001.
Headed from Detroit, to Ohio, then to Austria, for my first internship,
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. Sitting with my grandmother and little sister, in my grandparents’ then 160-year-old house, on occasion of gram’s 80th birthday.
Tools: Pentel RSVP, medium, blue. Still my favorite ballpoint.
One of my assignments to get the intersnship was to design a new VW Golf, especially for the NA market. So (as you can see in the scribble, “Golf X Jeep”), I drew this retractable-roof, slightly-lifted, and clean-sided funmobile.
Remember, this was in May, 2001. Happy people, going wherever they wanted to go, and wearing shades because the future was so bright.
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H’okay, so, that’s
Riff
in the passenger seat, but he’s not carrying any explosive weapons. He should be in the driver’s seat otherwise.
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We’ve all grown up a lot since then.
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Also, this:
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It seemed outrageous at the time.
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Everything old is new again.
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So, you invented the Renegade?