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Artist Interview : John Keester (cont.)
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Name your; favorite Jim Phillips graphic…
Speed Wheels - Possibly the best skate graphic ever with the possible exception of the vato rat or the Dogtown cross.
favorite VC Johnson graphic…
Welinder street with honorable mention for the Mullen freestyle. I could go on.
favorite Sean Cliver graphic…
When simple is better. It was that circus monkey boy graphic. Damn that rocked. I think it might have been a Stecyk influence, dunno. On the deck he was pointing but we made stickers of him flipping the bird that you could put over his hand. Brilliant. I still have a shirt that shows monkey boy throwing finger from the front and back, but on the back his little red suit has the shit flap down and shows a blue ass. Does it get any better? I think that character got used on a deck that was just a big photo of slabs of meat, and monkey boy is standing there with a chain saw. The shirt for that one was priceless.
favorite Andy Howell graphic…
His stuff is all pretty cool. He was to New Deal what Jim was to Santa Cruz and Court was to Powell.

Who was the 21st president of the good old USA? (For citizenship verification purposes, of course)
I refuse to answer on the grounds it might incriminate me.

Ever get invited to hang out with George or Stacy? Any of the pros? Or are you artists treated like mushrooms ("keep you in the dark and pile shit on ya")?
Dude, I'll never forget my first couple weeks there. I'm skating with guys I've been watching on videos. Having a skate park at your work is a nice perk. You get to hang out and watch the pros work out when they were in town. There are lots of locals who become regulars. Stacy was a rare sighting by the time I showed up. George invited me to dinners and Q's, but those felt more formal and less like hanging out if you know what I mean.