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Jesse Reklaw is a cartoonist and artist who lives in Berkeley.
See his website,
Slow Wave.
Brandon MacInnis is a musician, graphic designer, video artist, and more who lives in Chicago.
See his website,
Quirky Works.
History:
Brandon and Jesse met during a game of tag in 1980, when they were both
in the fourth grade at Mariemont Elementary School in Sacramento, CA. Besides
recess activities, they also shared interests in drawing X-Men characters,
playing video games on the Commodore 64, and making Super8 home movies with
animated action figures. 
They both attended Rio Americano High School
(alma mater of Molly Ringwald) and collaborated on the 
Xeroxed comic book series, The
Wacky-Cool Adventures of Fred Robinson. Fueled by lots of Miller Genuine
Draft plus culinary creations like "pizza burritos" and "fried vegan slop,"
they also invented card games, and even their own decks of cards. After high school, in the early 90s, Brandon and Jesse both grew their hair long and played in a whole mess of short-lived bands, including Several Idiots, Better Fred, Mr. Distorto, Bluefish, Pissant,
The Shawn Waco Experience, Styrohound,
and New World Toad. They continued Fred's adventures while attending American
River Junior College (and later UC Santa Cruz), and also made a zine about
their community house, Merrywood. In 1999, now living more than two thousand miles apart, they decided to embark on a new studio project, called superstring. Their first release is 2003's "Artificial Stupidity."
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