Best Friends 1998

Best Friends 1998.

This may have been the first year that I started making the Best Friends posters, which included pictures that I drew of people, friends, family members, that I have met in person, and it included characters from Star Wars, the Power Rangers, and the Lion King. I would basically make it look like a group photo, like as if I could get all these people to be in a picture together. I think I made one for the years of 1999 and 2000 but I may have stopped after that. I may have only made 3 of these posters, just for those 3 years.

1998
13 years old
163, Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold

Black Or White

Fox showed the Michael Jackson music video Black Or White on television on Thursday: the 14th of November 1991. This was the first Michael Jackson video that was aired by Fox.

I remember watching this on TV, and I was excited to see Magic Johnson and Michael Jackson, and their love story in Egypt, even through I knew little about them at the time. Wait, scratch that, I am thinking about the music video Remember The Time. I also remember Black Or White which also starred the boy from Home Alone.

Indians

Indians.

I think I began drawing Indians in 1991 when I was 6 years old. This may have been after seeing Indians at a fair in Hillsboro, Oregon USA.

1991
6 years old
Forest Grove & Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal

Humming

Humming.

I started Humming in 1988 when  was 3 years old, if not sooner. I could keep the melody but I was not able to talk or sing well. My younger sister was the opposite. She would remember the words to a song and sing it off tune. I can sing it on tune but with the wrong words. I was able to hum.

1988
3 years old
163: Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal