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Jason says: hi Jan. I sent you a friend request on facebook. I was shot also and now I’m paralyzed. Please check out my story. (February 23rd, 2011 at 12:08pm)
Jan Reid
“Anxious” is the best way to describe how writer-at-large Jan Reid felt when asked to write about the life and death of former Texas governor Ann Richards (“Ann,”). “It was so big and important to a lot of people and us—my wife and myself and friends—to get it right,” says the Abilene native. A friend of Richards’s for nearly 26 years, Reid was an easy choice to eulogize the legendary pol. “Those four brief years when she was governor, she made a change in government that’s not going to go away,” says Reid. “It was a change for the better, and it’s continuing.”
James Evans
You can learn a lot about James Evans’s personality by looking at his picture. The hat and long braids are part of a costume that pays homage to his friend Austin painter Julie Speed (so does the third eye, which is a trademark of her work). But Evans also has a serious side. He shot the remarkable photographs for a story about the rising number of illegal immigrants who have died trying to make their way across South Texas (“The Desert of the Dead,”). “I am familiar with the border, and I know about immigration,” says Evans, who has lived in Marathon since 1988. “But even I was surprised at how many people told me that the Mexican government needed to do something to help.”
Peter and Maria Hoey
Peter and Maria Hoey know how to keep their space. He lives in Arcata, California (about five hours north of San Francisco); she’s based in Manhattan (Greenwich Village, to be precise). But that hasn’t stopped these siblings from running Pacific Coin-Op Studio, which specializes in illustrations for magazines, comic books, and everything in between. “We work together largely via the Internet,” Peter wrote in an e-mail. “I start the illustrations with initial sketches and line drawings. Maria takes over at the coloring stage, working her Photoshop magic.” Together they created the stylized artwork for “The Chop Is in the Mail”, a story about the state’s best mail-order food. Distance, you see, never has to be a problem.
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