stephbg | You are a strange man but I like you... drhoz

At some point earlier in this decade I started to notice the work of someone by the name of

drhoz (plus various punctuation marks) at Swancon art shows. Many years ago it was quantity rather than quality, with a large collection of early CG works rather spoiled by $2 shop frames.

Over subsequent years the work improved noticably in quality and presentation (and number of tentacles), and I began to look out for it each year. I'm not sure when it was that I identified the man himself as an ambulatory human rather than a virtual art source, but identify I did, and looked forward to catching up once per year at Swancon.

After a while he started to do panels on icky squishy things, and last year I asked him to join me on "101 Uses For a Dead (Or Possibly Live) Squid". He kindly did all the hard work and provided the science and the pictures. I provided puppetry and alternative industries. We had discussed the thing in advance and I felt confident about working with him. I *really* like that in a panel partner.

He has a great eye for biotainment and I do my best to look at all of his wacky science posts. I appreciate his habit of responding to my posts or comments with a *grin* of some description. It's nice to know someone's out there, reading and responding.

At the Swancon 2007 he and his partner D dressed as viruses (EDIT: actually bacteria). Gotta respect that.

I do not know drhoz's real name. Normally this would bother me, but for him it works.

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