Mostly because in art courses back in junior high school and places like that you go through a curriculum like, “Okay, this week it’s paper mache sculpture next week it will be toothpick construction the week after it will be origami.” I just wanted to draw. I really hadn’t taken very much art, and the art that I had taken I hadn’t been wild about. I moved back home, I lived in my old room, I got a job in a local bookstore and along about fall, having graduated in May, I decided to apply to art schools - really because that was my other interest. I was one of the very early boomerang kids. What happened then was I took a year off. Simonson: They discussed that with me and they were nothing but supportive the whole time, but I ended up, literally, graduating from college with no real idea of what I wanted to do except that it was not in the geology/paleontology realm. In my case I got to the end of my senior year and I’d actually done some Paleo research as part of my senior thesis, but I reached a point where I decided, about two months before graduation, I could see this was not what I wanted to do as a vocation.
Typically when you want to study dinosaurs your undergraduate career is either geology or biology and then you become a verto-paleo or whatever you’re going to be as a grad student. I went to college and was a geology major. But I also liked dinosaurs and thought I’d pursue that as a vocation. to do stuff, so I never thought about art as a career.
When Dad’s friends would come from out of town they were usually scientists coming into D.C. My dad was a soil scientist and, while not a geologist, he studied the earth - so the family had a scientific sense to it.
Walt Simonson: The simple answer is that I, even as a kid, really had two interests. Bryan Stroud: Your start in the business came from kind of an interesting direction, going from Geology and switching to art school and it’s well documented that you used your Star Slammers as your senior degree project.
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