chrisyates.net : it may be good for you.

06/15/2007

So I went to this boarding school called Choate, and I was kind of like that kid from Rushmore, playing bass in the Jazz Band, writing plays, taking pictures for the yearbook, acting in plays, working at the radio station, playing koto drums in the ice rink, learning how to weld in Mr. Bradford's barn, basically doing more extra-curricular activities than actual homework.

One of the coolest things that I had a hand in was a comedy magazine called Keen, that my good friend Steve Carey and I co-edited. We thought ourselves to be pretty funny at the time, but we will see if the selected pages I will be presenting here over the next few weeks hold up to the test of time. Most of this material was created by Steve and I, but we were also lucky enough to have contributors like Pheroze Karai, a living rock legend; Ben Kessler, playwright extraordinaire; Roddy Richards, master of the digital realm; Matt Bleich, elusive hypergenius; Brett Icahn, son of a really rich dude; and several other talented illustrators and photographers. We made four 36-page issues over the course of a year and a half, we'll start with #2 because I cannot find #1 anywhere at the moment. I hope you like it!