There have been a lot of questions about Eric Canete and his blog as of late. Some people have emailed me personally, others are talking about it on various message boards, some of you have gone as far as signing up for twitter just to ask me what the hell is going on with Eric's blog.
As most of you have noticed his blog is no longer active and I'll tell you why. Eric took a trip to Mumbai several weeks ago and spontaneously combusted while going through customs, taking out several metal detectors, two innocent bystanders and a drug sniffing dog. Luckily his luggage containing all his artwork was not damaged, I am not sure how that is possible. Eric was bringing all his artwork to India to start a school for young Indian artists to copy his style so he could in turn "draw" fifteen books a month. I suppose the forces that be were not happy with his decision to deceive the public and well...poof!
All the artwork was mailed back to his address and I now have all his art because as soon as I heard he had spontaneously combusted I collected everything I could knowing that it would be worth a fortune someday. I will one day sell all his art on the international black market and make a killing.
(Those of you who are convinced you spoke to him during the Emerald City Con were speaking to the Canete-bot I built two years ago. No need to compliment me on the amazing work I did there, I already know how amazing that thing is. In fact, the Canete-bot has been out and about for roughly two years now. Any face to face meeting with Eric could have been a conversation with the Canete-bot instead. You figure it out, I will not pull up the logs for you, I'm sorry.)
Eric you are truly one of my best friends and I will miss you greatly. Thank you for leaving me a key to your place so that I could plunder it and send my future children to college, you were not only a saint in life, but in spontaneous combustment as well. I love you friend and I look forward to the day where we meet again. We never got the opportunity to release our creator owned projects for all to see, perhaps we will get that chance when we jump ahead to another life.
3 comments:
No, really..... Come on, man! I need my Canete fix.
Alas' Jon Tsuei, I new him well....Maybe not that well..
Ha ha. But that my friend is the way to go out in factive blaze of lead and ink. I think.
I guess with all his recent success - he needed to get away from the crazy glitz and glamour lifestyle - you start getting invited to conventions - then it's the parties,then it's the groupies, then it's the blow at 10 am ...then it's waking up in trashed hotel room to an intervention from concerned editors - 'Remember when it used to be about the art, man... not the numbers, the media, the partying... you've changed, man...' So I reckon Mr. Canete faked his death just to get away from the madness, yeah, that's it, I think he was sighted working the roller-coaster ride in a travelling amusement park, still doing a bit of custom airbrush artwork on Ford Econoline vans and Harley Davidson motorcycles. I wish him all the best in his new, quieter life.
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