Another recently unearthed treasures.
Waaaay back in either late 1998 or early 1999, at age 16, I did this little doodle of a cartoony guy wiht a ponytail in ballpoint pen. My friend Beth took her pencil and added to the doodle, and included some captions.
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.psychoandy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/slacker.jpg?resize=765%2C582&ssl=1)
You’ve got to remember that in the 1990s, there was some weird obsession with the word “slacker,” especially in regards to Generation X kids. Whether or not I’m part of GenX is up for debate — the cutoff for years between Generation X and Millennials seems to change more often than the weather in New England — But at the time, my friends and I were all pretty sure we were the tail end of Generation X.
And since The Greatest Generation dubbed all of Gen X slackers, much as Baby Boomers have been doing to Millennials over the last decade or so, again, we were pretty sure that we were all going to be slackers.
I ended up becoming a professional artist, and still kinda look like that little cartoon. Maybe that’s why I’ve held on to this for so long?