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Ok, so I really used to be into Science Fiction and Fantasy, right? I would go to Science Fiction conventions all the time and....well...dress up. Yeah, I know you're thinking Get a Life!. So, anyway, one of my friends was Kevin Ward, an incredible artist, and he liked my costumes. So, every once in a while, I would bundle up all my costumes and go visit Kevin and Janet and we would do some photo shoots that he could use later in his different works.

This is one of my favorites, "Prince of Ruins" (copyright 1989, Kevin A. Ward). It is actually the second version of it, because the first version was...

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purchased for the cover of a German printing of Piers Anthony's Wielding a Red Sword, Book 4 of the "Incarnations of Immortality" series (copyright 1989, Bastei Lubbe).

So...needless to say, I was in fanboy heaven...and that's my Andy Warhol moment.