Here come the Pterosoars!

The entire "Pterosoars!" cartoon series is now online

My cartoon series “Pterosoars!” which appeared in some issues of USHGA Hang Gliding and Whole Air magazines, has been restored and published online in its entirety. Unlike Harry Martin’s brilliant hang gliding cartoons, “Pterosoars!” was an enthusiastic satire/comedy of the sport that took place in the land of the dinosaurs.

[ Pod People poster by Hardy Snyman ]

I had filmed Don Partridge’s Owens Valley Cross Country Classic in the summer of 1981. I spent the fall and winter editing Aoli, Comet Clones & Pod People in a tiny apartment closet that I had converted into a “clean room” while attending Cal Poly SLO. All the tedious cutting and splicing and dubbing burnt me out, so I pulled out a fine tip Magic Marker and started drawing Pterosoars!

The last cartoon in the series was “The Hill,” which explained, sort of, why so many fossilized pterosaur skeletons are often found on flat plains.

By the mid-1980s, I had become that guy, finding myself alone many times in the middle of the trackless, godforsaken desert beyond Owens Valley. I’d traded in my Magic Marker for an oxygen tank.

Pterosoars! will also be published in Volume IV of Ghosts of Wind and Cloud: Skygods and Powerheads - 1978 to 1985.