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Former cartoonist
at 'Rolling Stone'
By Lynn Silhasek
Not everyone can make
Mickey Mouse-like char
acters out of personalities
like former President
Nixon, Chancellor James
Zumberge, the NU Board
of Regents or the average
UNLsJudent.
Greg ! Scott, former
Daily nebraskan cartoon
ist did it for five years,
from 1969-73, gracing the
newspaper's editorial and
news pages with carica
tures of both national and
local figures.
Now Scott works as a
paste-up artist in San
Francisco for Rolling
Stone, a national rock
music-oriented bi-weekly
newspaper. In that job, he
helps put together the
pages.
No cartoon work is
j involved in the job, but
'Scott said in an interview
that he quit those draw
ings when he quit school
in 1973 to devote time to
his main interests, paint
ing and pencil drawing.
"It (cartooning) was fun
and a financial gesture to
put myself through
school," Scott said. "But I
don't prefer to do it that
much. Cartoons in them
selves are not very con
ducive to someone inter
ested in detail'
"If you're interested in
detail," as Scott said he
is, "you can enjoy Zap
comics and enjoy.DaVinci,
but you're leading a doub
le life." -
While in Lincoln, Scott
worked in several forms of
art. In 1971, Scott, along
with other UNL students
illustrated and produced
three issues of "Can
c'Beans", a comic maga
zine. Scott's pencil draw
ings of American Indians
have been on exhibition In
the Odyssey, a Lincoln
interior design shop.
Other works have been on
exhibit in the Nebraska
Union and in Sheldon Art
Gallery.
Until he left for San
Francisco last month,
Scott studied painting
with Kent Bellows, an
Omaha painter. Both Scott
and Bellows studied ren
aissance painters, Scott
said.
On the advice of
friends, Scott said he
decided to go to San
Francisco to look for art
jobs. Planning to stay
there for ten days, he said
he applied for a job at the
Rolling Stone on the third
day.
The office was short
handed at the time, need
ing someone to do letter
ing for a story, according
to Scott. He was asked to
come up with the lettering
for ihe article that would
look like "the writing in a
high school girl's scrap
book". Scott said he continued
to show up at the office to
help with production work
and then "fell into the
job" he has now.
"But it's just a job," he
said. "My objective is to
eventually support myself
here by painting and
drawing. I don't know if
I'll stay with Rolling
Stone. A lot of things
could happen."
Like returning to Neb
raska? "It's beautiful country
out there, but I'd' have to
have a very good reason
why."
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