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Darin McGowan - A Tragedy
based on the novella, “Darin McGowan - A Comedy”
by -Cruddy Los Feliz

Darin was born the unfortunate love child of Pablo Picasso and Lou Costello. -Abandoned after birth, Darin escaped his orphanage in a similarly abandoned jet pack that he found in a nearby gutter. -Drifting from town to town since his seventh year, Darin experienced the ups and downs of every artist and mad man at an early age.- On his tenth birthday, he was brought aboard a UFO and given painting lessons by Dr. Xygggsszztly Dor Addleypuss, assistant chief orfalator. -Having learned all that the cosmos had to offer, Darin landed safely in Hollywood, California in 1999.- Bidding a sad goodbye to Dr. Xygggsszztly and his UFO classmates, Zarhhh Plutonimous, Bruphtzackx Blortoh and Francis Jor-Ello, Darin set out to make a living as an artist. -Accepting a job in animation, Darin started storyboarding for many well known Earth cartoons. -Five years later and currently, Darin still enjoys the life of a storyboard artist but misses the good old days in outer space with his alien art class. -He’s started painting again and is ready to unleash his work to the unsuspecting Los Angeles counterculture. -You’ve been warned.

aliases:
Kansas Anderson
Jackson Molasses
Waxy Meyerson
Rooster Donley
Red Pajamas
Junior Wallace
Pecker Burns
L. Stuart Giraffe
B.O. Strickfadden
M. Barrington Dwyer
Zero Callahan
Cruddy Los Feliz
J. Edgar Danskins
Foster Brooks
Marlin Dunning
Hairy Ass Truman
Jeffrey Q. Lightswitch
John Philip Boozer
Artist’s Statement:
"I like indian burns but I prefer noogies."
- Darin McGowan 2004

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