In the 1990's Michael King became awestruck by the work of underground comic book artists such as Crumb, Spiegelman, Green, Katchor, Clowes, Doucet, Darcey, Seth, etc., and could not help but try his own hand at cartooning.  King whiled away many hours drawing at coffee shops and eventually made a bunch of small framed pictures, wooden nickels, and clocks, that he put in an art-show-in-a-suitcase that was placed on the sidewalk on Second Saturday.  King primarily works with a simple ink pen which he calls, "very portable."  Says King, "To conjure up something out of nothing but a drop of ink is most satisfying."