Blaine Fergerstrom on Diamond Head Crater Festivals

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Blaine Fergerstrom ("ZZType") posted the following to the HawaiiThreads.com message board on February 22, 2005:

After I got out of the Navy in 1976 I marched into Sunbums and up to John Leonard's office with a handful of political cartoons I was working on at the time. "How much are you going to pay me for my cartoons?"

Leonard replied, "I'll tell you what. I like you. You go downstairs and tell Hank McMonigle that I sent you. He'll teach you how this business works."

Hank taught me to run the stat camera and I learned a bit about paste-up and how a newspaper is produced. I worked there six months, for free. But learned a lot.

That was my introduction to graphics, print production and publishing. 30 years later I'm still working in graphics, print production, publishing and I added web design and production to the resume.

Still working at the Star-Bulletin are John Berger and Mark Coleman, both Sunbums alums. And Chris Leonard, John's son, runs buyhawaiianmusic.com on the Big Island.

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