“if chic young was a cartoonist then i don’t want to be a cartoonist if walt disney was a cartoonist I don’t want to be a cartoonist if philip guston was a cartoonist ill consider it.” – Otto M. With a nod to David Antin, Talking at the Boundaries
Otto M. (The Auto Mechanic)
Cartoonist with a PhD (it was an adventure). Video artist and Educator. Author of Teaching with the Screen from Routledge. Graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. Former Professor of Visual Culture and Media Studies at a small liberal arts college in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Leopard was christened Otto M. “The Auto Mechanic” by August Coppola (creator of the Tactile Dome in San Francisco and brother of Francis Ford) and Nick Cage (“Not the bees! Not the bees!”). This was many years ago (rest in peace, Professor Coppola). This nickname devastated Otto, but over time he grew to accept that he was, modestly, a technician of the arts. Now he spends his time drawing pictures and writing stories focusing on people, places, and things. The nouns of life. All with the superb insight of one who fixes cars for a living (or so he imagines).
