Knowing that the brilliant Eric Shcwartz is still alive and kicking, and making cartoons with his Amiga, actually made me cry today. I remember being about nine years old, and wiping the sweat off my palms as I waited for friends to come over with new floppy discs containing his animations.

I’ve written Eric a couple times, and never heard back from him, but that figures. I’m sure he gets nostalgic mail all the time from former little brats like me, saying basically the same thing, which is: “ERIC, YOU INSPIRE US!” He probably has an email filter set up just to deal with that.

Anyway, Eric, you inspire me, and I wouldn’t ever have decided to make cartoons without that inspiration, so from the bottom of my heart, thank you for ruining my life.