A Strange Tale

I was in Knoxville, Tennessee a week ago to do a workshop on comics. Evelyn and I got there earlier than expected the afternoon before my presentation so we decided to walk around my old neighborhood. I lived off campus in “the fort” in an old turn of the century house that had been divided up into apartments. I was pleased to see the house still there, although a bit worse for wear… but here’s the weird part of the story. My first portrait assignment for my first “real” newspaper job was for...