Bill Plympton, Mark Alan Stamaty, Elwood Smith, and Skip Johnston, art director of National Lampoon. The band headlined at the 1981 Artists and Models Ball at Irving Plaza, New York City, to an audience of 1,500 artists for the benefit of the Graphic Artists Guild. Brooks also produced the concert. In 1982, he appeared as the voice of Mr. Hands in Mr. Bill in Space, a book and record furthering the adventures of Mr. Bill, a character invented by Walter Williams for the television show Saturday Night Live. In 1988, he and Robert Zemeckis served as the opening feature events for American Illustration Weekend at Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. Brooks performed on stage and presented his animated mixed-media mock biopic, "A Guy Named Lou." Since 2006, Brooks has been the founder and curator of The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies, a virtual online visual collection of nearly 700 graphic arts tools and supplies that the computer has made obsolete or near obsolete. References External links 1944 births 2021 deaths American illustrators Artists from Pennsylvania People from Warminster, Pennsylvania