DizaBled.com
Title
dizABLED ★ Wheelchair Cartoons ★
Description
About dizABLED
I began to develop the idea of Leeder O. Men in 1985 while I was a teacher’s assistant at an adaptive weight training class at Santa Barbara City College. When I started to lift grown men with their wheelchairs buckled to their bodies up to the chin-up bar for fifty pull-ups, I became irreversibly involved. Leeder’s first stunt emerged in my sketch book shortly after.
I published early cartoons as editor of my own small skateboard magazine called Naughty Nomads. Leeder’s cartoon family were all skateboarders, so he soon learned to defy gravity with his own unique brand of ramp riding. Leeder went on to acquire a cult following in the underground skateboard zine trading phenomena of the late 80s and early 90s (many NN followers have since rediscovered Leeder right here), paving the way for his inevitable return when he reappeared in ’94 with stronger wheels and a web site. In 1995, I married Claire Le Guern-Lytle, Leeder’s assistant mouthpiece and visual consultant. She also happened to be a writer for paraplegic students at the University of Paris Dauphine while she was a law student at the University of Paris Pantheon Sorbonne.
In the fall of ’97, dizABLED evolved into its present strip format. It’s 2006 and we are hard pressed for free time raising our family, yet we know where this strip is headed. We have started to compile the ideas that have been contributed and as we begin inking, the site will be updated as we complete them. We would love nothing more than to draw them every day or week for you. Maybe someday.
Languages
English
Contact
- John Lytle Productions
- http://johnlytle.com/
