{"id":299,"date":"2009-09-02T02:36:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T07:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=299"},"modified":"2021-02-06T12:01:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T17:01:24","slug":"1985-or-back-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/09\/02\/1985-or-back-to-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"1985 or Back to the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GGMuck_2\"<\/p>\n

1985 was one hell of a year. I had graduated PCA, and the world was my oyster. During that school year I had met and befriended one of the most talented, energetic and probably the nicest guy I know – Dan Platt<\/strong><\/a>. Similar to me, he had majored in illustration, but he was so far beyond mere ink on paper that it wasn’t even funny. In addition to his normal work load in school, he was bringing fantasy to three dimensional life. He illustrated and he sculpted furiously, aimed like a bullet at the fantasy factory that was Hollywood. Before that decade was out, he would be out there working on movies<\/a> that are probably in your DVD collection. That summer, we were nobodies and we talked, sketched, sculpted, drank gallons of store brand iced tea mix and took in some of the best horror and fantasy movies ever made. It was the Summer of ’85, and there were still movie theaters on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. George Romero capped off his zombie trilogy with Day of the Dead<\/em>. Reanimator <\/em>came out which both repelled and delighted. Back to the Future<\/em> came out showing that films could dazzle and still have a lot of heart. All of these films both low and high budgeted came out to dazzle, thrill and push the limits of what entertainment could do. The juices were percolating and you could really get your geek on without judgment and well before the sniping nerds on the internet.<\/p>\n

\"GooGooMuck_1\"<\/p>\n

Everything was possible at the time so I wrote horror movie treatments on a Commodore64<\/a>. I wrote and submitted a couple of terrible scripts to Tales from the Darkside <\/em><\/a>which was being produced in Pittsburgh – a lot closer to Philly than Hollywood. The show was kind of crappy, so, hey, why not? The scripts were never produced, but I kept plugging away!<\/p>\n

I also worked over several ideas that I thought would be great horror movies. I had an idea for a variation on the I was a Teenage Werewolf<\/em><\/a> theme that would take place in the then modern hardcore\/punk\/skater scene. It would be based on the song Goo-Goo Muck<\/em> by the Cramps. I modeled my creature after Dan. The story never made it past the notebook stage – it probably would have been the hackneyed story of a misunderstood youth who turns into a monster and slaughters many – but these sketches survive.<\/p>\n

\"Mohawk\"<\/p>\n

I had not heard from Dan in years until recently thanks to the miracle of the internet! He’s still a nice guy. He still in the picture business. His work is still mind boggling! I’m not sure if he still drinks as much store brand iced tea mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1985 was one hell of a year. I had graduated PCA, and the world was my oyster. During that school year I had met and befriended one of the most talented, energetic and probably the nicest guy I know – … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,49],"tags":[54,3661,5,23,44,25],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","tag-dan-platt","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-monster","tag-mutant","tag-sketchbook"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":253,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/08\/24\/london-after-midnight\/","url_meta":{"origin":299,"position":0},"title":"London After Midnight","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"August 24, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Sketchbook sketch from July of 1985 of Lon Chaney from his sadly lost London After Midnight. Done in technical pen in a Strathmore wire-bound sketchbook.","rel":"","context":"In "It Came From the Sketchbook"","block_context":{"text":"It Came From the Sketchbook","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/it-came-from-the-sketchbook\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"London After Midnight","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/London-After-Midnight.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":429,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/09\/16\/demon\/","url_meta":{"origin":299,"position":1},"title":"Demon","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"September 16, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Another demon\/gargoyle from my sketchbook drawn during the mid-'80s. Once again, I think this is when Dan Platt and I were hanging out and shooting the breeze about monsters. I think this was another attempt at the Jersey Devil, but I think this guy is much too fit for the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "It Came From the Sketchbook"","block_context":{"text":"It Came From the Sketchbook","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/it-came-from-the-sketchbook\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"demon","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/demon.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":394,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/09\/10\/the-fried-shrimp-lady-or-just-some-doodles-from-1985\/","url_meta":{"origin":299,"position":2},"title":"The Fried Shrimp Lady or Just Some Doodles from 1985","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"September 10, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"While perusing Flickr, I came across the fabulous photos posted by olga-saglo. She posted images from "Carnival of Blood" which I remember seeing years ago on a low-rent local cable channel. I remembered doodling the "Fried Shrimp Lady" while watching that cinematic masterpiece. flickr.com\/photos\/61516675@N00\/2492783673\/in\/set-72157600...<\/a> I managed to dig out\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blast from the Past"","block_context":{"text":"Blast from the Past","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/blast-from-the-past\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Fried-Shrimp-detail.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":477,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/09\/24\/in-search-of-the-jersey-devil\/","url_meta":{"origin":299,"position":3},"title":"In Search of the Jersey Devil","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"September 24, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Remember that show In Search of which ran in the late '70s? Leonard Nimoy did the voice-over. It was sort of a Chariots of the Gods for syndicated television. I found some sketches that predated the full figure sketch of the Garden State's favorite demon that I posted earlier. They\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blast from the Past"","block_context":{"text":"Blast from the Past","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/blast-from-the-past\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"JD-head","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/JD-head.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":44310,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/12\/31\/the-city-is-a-jungle-and-im-a-beast\/","url_meta":{"origin":299,"position":4},"title":"The City is a Jungle and I’m a Beast","author":"Joe","date":"December 31, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Recently I was trying to clean out and organize a flat file cabinet in my third floor studio. My aim was to dispose of trash and to find the various sheets of Bristol board, watercolor paper and what have you in order to put them in some semblance of order.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Doodle Tuesday"","block_context":{"text":"Doodle Tuesday","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/it-came-from-the-sketchbook\/doodle-tuesday\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Goo-Goo-Muck-mosh.jpg?fit=640%2C995&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Goo-Goo-Muck-mosh.jpg?fit=640%2C995&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Goo-Goo-Muck-mosh.jpg?fit=640%2C995&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":40,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/07\/31\/the-joisey-debbil\/","url_meta":{"origin":299,"position":5},"title":"The Joisey Debbil","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"July 31, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"This was a sketch I did in a sketchbook using my former weapon of choice way back in 1986. I was hanging out with Dan Platt who was trying to visualize the legendary Jersey Devil in clay. He kept reading and rereading eyewitness accounts of the creature, but the farmers\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Sketch"","block_context":{"text":"Sketch","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/sketch\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Joisey_Debbil.gif?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}