Tami Knight > Quotes

“OOoooOOoooowwwwwww, Aaaaaaaagghghghgh” he cried out suddenly. Stopped in
midair and slowly spinning, the problem revealed itself. As he was descending, a big tuft
of his large, fluffy red beard had been sucked into the ‘biner break. Ever so irrevocably,
the rest of his face appeared to be sucking into it too.”
― Tami Knight, Secret Plans: Vol. III: 40+ Years of Cartoons for Climbers

“Holy everything that’s holy and even some not-holy things thrown in. There were no
words for how vast this big rock of El Cap was. Or that big rock—there was Middle
Cathedral Rock. Or that one over there— Sentinel, the Prow, Half Dome. The hugeness of the place ate my brain. I plopped down right there in El Cap Meadows and, mind exploding and now a believer in The Valley, I let it all soak in.”
― Tami Knight, Secret Plans: Vol. III: 40+ Years of Cartoons for Climbers

“By 1987 I had a stack of cartoons. That summer, stormbound on Mount Sir Francis Drake, while bailing the tent like it was a canoe shot by a cannon, I told my friend Dave Harris about the work. David was a graphic designer and his wife sold printing for a large print shop. “Do a comic book!” he said. So, with ginormous help from the both of them, I did. Three hundred copies of Lies and slander from a demented little corner of the coast range were printed up and sold for five bucks each. And then, the following year, Dave helped me do Volume 2.”
― Tami Knight, Secret Plans: Vol. III: 40+ Years of Cartoons for Climbers

“OOoooOOoooowwwwwww, Aaaaaaaagghghghgh” he cried out suddenly. Stopped in midair and slowly spinning, the problem revealed itself. As he was descending, a big tuft of his large, fluffy red beard had been sucked into the ‘biner break. Ever so irrevocably, the rest of his face appeared to be sucking into it too.”
― Tami Knight, Secret Plans: Vol. III: 40+ Years of Cartoons for Climbers