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WrittenBy --Ben E Zander

He asked if I wanted to
send him anything, and I
was like, yes! I took a week
and made him a huge
piece that was one of my
characters saying, ‘Hey
Ralph’, and Ralph saw it,
loved it, signed it, and did a
little character that said
‘What?’ and he sent it back.
It’s definitely one of my
prized possessions.” Aaron
began plying his craft
professionally around 2011.
As we discussed the scope
of his work, he gave credit
to friends and family for
encouraging him to realize
his talent. “It’s so weird,
because it’s something I’ve
done my whole life, and I
knew I loved it, but in my
head, it was like, you can’t
make a living doing that,
you can do it for fun. I did it
so much,
I was known around my friend base, like, ‘Meohw, Aaron likes to do
artwork.’ That’s what pushes people in the beginning, is someone
believing in you.” That belief has made him a pioneer, and he’s found
other trailblazers along his way. Vincent Gordon through their Melty
Bros collection, Zane Kesey on blotter, and his incredible wife, Ellie
Paisely, across continuing frontiers, to name but a few. Naturally, the
cyclopes he created for the Subtronics camp came up, and I asked
about how the relationships formed back in 2017.

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