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At a record release party in 1992 he met Estevan Oriol manager

Summary: At a record release party in 1992 he met Estevan Oriol manager of the stoner rap trio Cypress Hill They became friends around the time Cartoon was getting a lot of tattoos Oriol convinced Cartoon that tattoo art would be a natural progression from the kind of art he already was doing The manager hired Cartoon to create an album cover for Cypress Hill and brought him on tour with the hard partying group Obsessed with car culture he began airbrushing T shirts at custom car shows and gradually picked up pointers on painting murals on car doors and hoods At age 20 he landed a job as an illustrator at Hustler magazine and soon parlayed his work doing ribald cartoons there into a sideline designing album covers for Southland hip hop artists At a record release party in 1992 he met Estevan Oriol manager of the stoner rap trio Cypress Hill They became friends around the time Cartoon was getting a lot of tattoos Oriol convinced Cartoon that tattoo art would be a natural progression from the kind of art he already was doing The manager hired Cartoon to create an album cover for Cypress Hill and brought him on tour with the hard partying group Obsessed with car culture he began airbrushing T shirts at custom car shows and gradually picked up pointers on painting murals on car doors and hoods At age 20 he landed a job as an illustrator at Hustler magazine and soon parlayed his work doing ribald cartoons there into a sideline designing album covers for Southland hip hop artists

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