Strange currency

07-16-2015
Hello! This is one pic in the category 'Lost and Found' We couldn't put it in New, because it is pretty darn old, from the early eighties we presume. One can still see some heavy influences of Bishop in Coco's work here, especially in the way the hair and the face were drawn. It is a picture which accompanied the editorials in the Massad magazine in those days, and the original went its own peculiar way.
"In those days, before e-mail, before PC's even (in my case, anyway) I had to bring my material to the editorial office in person. This involved an hour long train ride, and a three quarters of an hour walk through town, with my six page comic in a small suitcase. One time I arrived and delivered my stuff, got payed and started a chat with the editor in chief.

After about an hour ( those visits always took place in the best of atmospheres, and hey: almost two hours of traveling), another guy came in, which I had met before. He joined the conversation, and at some point, he expressed an interest in the original of the picture in question, asking me how much I wanted for it.
Now I knew this guy was very handy with needle and thread, and so... I sold him the picture for a straight jacket. Not a very valid currency, I know, but when the opportunity presents itself.... The day I collected the jacket was the last time I saw that drawing, handsomely framed, hanging on the wall, over his desk. I wonder if he still has it. I still have the jacket. It featured in some of my pencil drawings from those days.

Coco

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