"I was also curious to see how Eric Drooker would interpret my work. And I thought that with today"s lowered attention span TV consciousness, this would be a kind of updating of the presentation of my work... To me, the megalopolis landscapes are the most interesting - that gigantic skyscraper vision. He really captured that sense of Moloch I was going for in the second section of Howl - "Moloch whose buildings are judgment!" "I began collecting Drooker"s posters soon after overcoming shock, seeing in contemporary images the same dangerous class conflict I"d remembered from childhood, pre-Hitler block print wordless novels... the solitary artist dwarfed by the canyons of a Wall Street megalopolis lay shadowed behind my own vision of Moloch... What "shocked" me in Drooker"s scratchboard prints was his graphic illustration of economic crisis similar to Weimar-American 1930s Depressions... Drooker illustrated the city"s infrastructural stress, housing decay, homelessness,...