An Illustrated History

Part 1 - Blame the Pogo Stick

The world of Sauria, and all that followed it, was conceived on a rather boring school day back in 1989. In the midst of the harrowing seventh grade. I wasn't what one would exactly call, popular, in fact I was pretty much the opposite…though what would you expect from a boy who's favorite recess activity was sifting gravel through his wildly bushy hair?

I was in some general science class in the Canon City Junior High, feeling somewhat bored by the lecture and pondering my perceived lack of friends while doodling on my folder (one of those paper ones with the bendy clasp things in the middle). The lecture droned on and my mind wandered to one of my favorite Christian shows (the kind that you could only really find on VHS back then), McGee & Me.

McGee & Me was a show about a young boy who drew a cartoon character named McGee who would come "alive" and they would have fun adventures together. All of a sudden a few neurons shorted out and I got the brilliant idea that I could create my own cartoon friend to go on adventures with.

I scanned over the doodles on my notebook and one in particular caught my eye. One so full of promise and mystery that only it could fulfill my longing for adventures. The picture was very simply….

A dinosaur on a pogo stick.

What was his name? Where did he live? Did he have any friends? Any enemies? And perhaps most importantly: Why was he on a pogo stick?

All these questions swamped through my interest-deprived brain. And that was the moment of conception, the first crack in the egg hatching a new world. I didn't know it then though.

All I wanted was a simple cartoon friend…what I got would change my life.

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