Billy: You've never been to an "art school", have you? There's more backbiting there than at a law school or a theatre troupe. On the one hand, there's a good side... "By gawd, I'm going to make this next piece perfect, so that it stands out head and shoulder's over Billy Bob's work!" On the other hand, there's the more visible, and unfortunately more common, bad side... "Billy Bob is popular, and a good artist... so I'll come up with some cheap and easy thing to do to steal his thunder... like upstaging him in the second act, or tossing fecal matter onto a two hundred year old pewter plate and call it 'Corporate America'..." I, for one, take a third option. "I'm not the best, but I'm improving as time goes on...I think I'll have fun with my art, and make pictures that amuse me and maybe get a chuckle. An occasional pinup is fine, but gimme the gags any day."

Remember, kids! Napalm is Nature's Toothpaste!