You and Cag were one of my big inspirations for moving to Cali many years ago. I’ve always been a big Dick Smith fan, and greatly enjoyed your Gorezone articles. That was the only reason I bought that mag, as I was much more a fan of character and interesting make-ups than gore.

Any chance you can post some of the old articles here? I especially enjoyed the “shop tour” article. The planning loft was priceless.

Thanks for the great blog and please, more make-up/Dick Smith/Cag n Drex tales!!

Dave

Thank you so much for the wonderful note. It means a lot to hear that those articles, like messages in a bottle, reached you and meant so much! I was always most excited to write the how-to articles because I knew you were out there! I remember that Gorezone and I were a little bit at odds because I didn’t have any blood in them! Eventually they put me on the black and white pages, and saved the color for the gory stuff! Heh heh… who can blame them… afterall, the magazine was called “Gorezone”!

Best wishes! Love to visit Brazil one of these days!
Doug

Greetings from Brazil, Doug!

To cut a long story short, I used to work with makeup FX years ago (before I´ve started working with 3d animation), and I always was a big fan of yours and John Caglione´s work . I was one avid reader of your articles at Gorezone, etc (actually, still have some plasticine-and-plaster covered issues of those around my office somewhere) .

Learned a lot just studying your making-of photos at the time, thanks a lot for all that.

Well , just would like to say it´s great to know you guys are still producing wonders , and that reading your stories here in the blog is an inspiring experience per itself (you should write a book about your experiences , that´s for sure).

Have a great time, and keep living the dream!

Hahahaha. Too funny.