You can't repeat it.

I ran across a few very old issue of the "Dallas Ad Club News" circa 1975 and thought I would share one of these every so often. This was well before my career started, but I did have the pleasure of working and knowing a few of the distinguished (and not so...) people. These belonged to Patrick Benton and is mentioned in some of these newsletters. He was my business partner Scott's father and he just passed away a little while back. He was a curious guy and I know he would be happy that I am sharing these.

Perhaps I am old enough that my memory is starting to get distorted, but our industry used to be the wild fucking West. Even when I started out in the early 90's the people I worked with were some of the most god-damn out there I had ever met.

I was going to type some innane rant, but instead I want to thank Roc Mitchell, Tom Knott, Patrick Benton, Jerry McPhail, Bill Jenkins, Jim Russell, Jim Fergusen and all those old grey hair fuckers who yelled, harrassed, corrected and occasionally supported me. I never had a mentor but collectively these people, unbenownst to them, taught me so much.

The largest lesson I learned in the last 15 years was to be relentless in your pursuit of good work. I hope this inspires some of you to do likewise.



Click here for a pdf of the February 1975 Issue of The Dallas Art Club News (9.7mb).