Ken Fox posts an apology to his boyhood rival Michael Turner on the Wizard Universe forum:

A few years later I got to know that weird kid. See, I was the resident artist in our Junior High School (Glenn Martin Jr. High) located in Crossville Tennessee.

Every school has one. It’s part of the pantheon of puberty. Every Jr. High in the country has the Singer, the Fighter, the Playboy, the Cheerleader, the Slut (usually long Blonde hair), the Geek, the Artist, and the Quarterback. Me? I was the Artist. Mike? He was the 2nd level artist (yeah – there are levels). Anyway – sooner or later our Mead brand Sketchbooks were bound to collaborate on some great unfinished project, and it finally happened.

The time I remember most from the Mike days was the weekend he was stayed at my house. That was when I first started to loathe him with admiration. We penciled for a while – he did it very well. We wrote for a while – he did it very well (the story was about dragons). We played Galaxa at a laundry matt waiting on my mom to pick us up for a while – guess what? yep. He did it very well. It became painfully obvious that whatever we happened to be doing - eating hamburgers and fries, tying our shoes, whistling the A-Team theme song, whatever – Mike did it very well.

Be sure to check out the rest; it’s pretty moving.

(Thanks, Jim)

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