Original sketch for Hotwired

At first it was called "@wired," then Hotwired. The first commercial digital culture webzine. I was the founding Executive Editor, but quit with a bunch of other people shortly after launch. Gary Wolf's book, "Wired, A Romance," and a briefer mention in Kevin Kelly's book, "The Inevitable," tells the story of that conflict. Let's just say that the publisher wanted to dictate culture and we wanted it to reflect the community's cultural production.