I do know that he graduated from the highly rated Arts Center College of Design in Pasadena, California like his buddy Staehling. Suddenly the Invisible Man became visible but that did not mean that he became more forthcoming on his origins now that I was no longer transparent. He was to send me letters and postcards for the next 32 years always in his neat handwriting. Soon after, I got a congratulatory note from Newland. Sometime around 1979 I took a picture of the Subumans for a Les Wiseman Christmas piece for his rock column In One Ear. I asked him once where he was from and he told me, “I’m from North Korea.” He never gave me the time of day when he visited his pals, Editor Malcolm Parry and Art Director Richard Staehling. When I first met Newland at Vancouver Magazine around 1977 his International Rocketship Limited Animation Company was next door on Richards and Davie. I have told people I have just met on the elevator (Bentall II) that I know Marv Newland and several of these people have had apoplectic seizures of amazement and joy. He does not want anybody to know that one of his first works, his 1969 Bambi Meets Godzilla, an animated short of less than two minutes, has made him a cult figure around the world. The other eccentric (a mysterious one at times) is illustrator and animator Marv Newland. Once when I was having terrible stomach problems in Montevideo, Uruguay after I had a peach blender drink from a street vendor he fed me a pill the size of Springfield rifle round and I became well in a jiffy. Because he has severe back problems and other ills that prevent him from sitting down for much of the day he now gardens.
And since he was trying to downgrade and live a simpler life he has purchased a four-bedroom house to replace his little heritage house in Strathcona. One of them, Mark Budgen recently decided for a pastoral existence in Oliver, BC. The two most eccentric persons I have met in my life happen to be men that I first met in Vancouver in the late 70s.
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