DONE BY TFG OF MAJIC 12
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³ Hi Cougar. I guess that most people know you, but please introduce 
 yourself anyway.
¹
 - Well...   My  birth  certificate  shows  me  that  my real name is Christian
   Reissmueller,  but  I decided to change it to COUGAR when I was one year and
   two  months old.  Why I changed my name ?  ...  O.k...  At my first birthday
   I asked a guy called `Rutsch-Hose` (Engl.:  `Sliding-Trousers`), who was the
   leader  of  an  infamous  gang  called  `Die  Windel-Pupser`  (Engl.:   `The
   Napkin-Farters`),  for  membership.  He checked my person (only elite babies
   were allowed to join the gang), and told me the conditions:  I had to attack
   our  mayor  with  selfmade shit.  And I managed to do that shitty work...  !
   (hehe!)  Now I`ve been a true napkin farter!  Soon I had a girlfriend called
   `Pussy-Baby`  who  loved  me  for  the  shitty  work  I had done.  And there
   appeared  the  problem:   Every  time  when  she  called  for  me like this,
   "Rabaeeeeh,  agagaga,  waeeeeeh  aga  gaga  waba!" (translated:  "Christian,
   darling, come to my breasts !"), everyone whose name was Christian, followed
   this  tempting invitation ..........!!  Therefore I had to change my name to
   Cougar  !!!   My  actual  age is about ten years ...  eh ...  no!  That`s my
   grandmas  age  ...!  I remember.  I`m about twenty years old.  In my earlier
   life  I`ve  been an Egyptian princess !  Today, one of my tasks seems to be,
   that I am a gfx-artist in SANITY !

³ Thanx, please tell us a bit about former your groups and whether you liked 
 them or not.
¹
 - My  first  group, where I`ve been a member, was called TBC.  At that time, I
   owned  a  C-64.   Then  I  sold  that cute little machine (what a pitty) and
   bought  an  Amiga.   My  first group on Amiga:  Level-4 !  I enjoyed being a
   member  of  L-4  a  lot.   That  means,  the  first time!  There was a great
   friendship,  not  at  least because of some internal meetings.  I had a good
   relation  to most of the guys (e.g.  JPN, MCS, MMS...).  But then, there had
   come  the  big  lazyness.  Therefore JPN, I and some others decidet to leave
   and  we  foundet a new group and named it Vertical.  We released a musikdisk
   and  Asteroids  but a really good coder was missing.  Although we had a good
   musican  (The  Fox) and a quite acceptable graphic artist (me, hehe).  But I
   wanted  to do some really cool demos.  So I decidet to join Sanity!  This is
   only the short version of my Amiga story...

³ How did you become a graphician and for how long time ago did you start 
 making gfx ?
¹
 - I drew my first graphics still on C-64, but only a few (some logos for TBC).
   The first one and a half years on Amiga I only played games.  Then I noticed
   that  I  didn`t  have  enough stuff.  Therefore I wrote to JPN (at that time
   still  a  member  of  L-4),  asked  for  swapping  and told him that I was a
   gfx-man.   But  in  reality I hadn`t painted any gfx on Amiga, at that time.
   JPN  didn`t  want  to  swap,  but  he  asked me to send him some graphics...
   Therefore  I  drew  my  first  gfx  on  Amiga  (a small spaceship and a huge
   L-4-logo).   JPN  liked  my  gfx  very  much .....  I started making gfx (on
   Amiga)  about  two years ago.  About one and a half years ago, I pixeled the
   Snake that you know from `Turmoil`.
³ What hardware do you have ?
¹
 - A  500;  A  1081;  external drive; 1 MB; Epson LQ-550; several joysticks (my
   best  joystick, a competition pro 5000, is already seven years old and still
   wor - king fine !)

³ Please try to describe the German versus the whole scene.
 ¹
 - There  are  so many articles about this (or,and similar) topics that I won`t
   warm  it  up again.  I only hope that the German demo-scene will have a come
   back  (not  at  least  because  of Sanity ...).  Many talented guys left the
   scene in order to write games.  But I think that you can do both ........

³ Sanity ! Introduction should be unnecesary, but try to tell us everything 
 about your group.
¹
 - Sanity consists of 14 members:
    - 6 coder:  Chaos - Mr. Pet - Flosoft - Zap - Cosmos - Microforce
    - 3 gfx-artists:  Cruiser - Cthulu - Cougar 
    - 2 sound-wizards:  Jester - Bit Arts 
    - 3 mail-trader:  Diddle - The Pride - Zaphod
   The Pride is the only Nongerman member. 

   Good and reliable (!) sysops or (and) modemtrader will be welcome !!!
   (Germans prefered !)

³ You got the second place at THE PARTY with your picture of the wild dog.
 Was you satisfied with this, or did you think you should have won ?
¹
 - Yes, of course I should have won, because I would have got more money, 
   and everyone wants money (hehe) !?! But the only problem is (was) that 
   Iridons picture looks better than mine ! And he has spent much more 
   hours (interlaced, 64 col.) to finish his masterpiece ! Therefore I 
   think it`s quite fair that he won the first price ! 

³ What do you think about THE PARTY in general ?
 ¹- Yeah ! It was (without doubt) the best party where I`ve ever been ! 
   Great organisation !! It was a pitty that some guys behaved like aliens. 

 ³Will Sanity make a party this year ?

 ¹- No, I don`t think so. 

 ³Try to explain the progress when you are drawing. Do you make an outline first
 or do you just draw by your imagination ?   
¹
 - First,  you  have to take a large pot.  Then you have to put it onto an open
   fire  and  fill  it  up  with  Ethanol  (alcohol).....and then you need some
   ingredients:   otternoses,  snailslime,  a  crittertooth,  some milk of your
   girlfriend,  some  Ewok-hair,  a  Wookie-fart, a bunch of magic shit .......
   After  mixing  all  the stuff, it has to cook for several days.  Then take a
   magic  flask  and  fill  it up with the magic sauce.  Now, you have to leave
   this  flask about one year in an nuclear reactor.  And if the flask doesen`t
   cause  a  Chernobyl  accident  (?.......!!!),  you take it back and put some
   drops  into  your  mouse.....  whaaooorriiim!...  suddenly the force is with
   your  mouse !!!  It draws everything you wish !  .....  But pssssst !  Don`t
   tell  this  recipe to anybody !!  TOP SECRET !!!  PS: Don`t forget the salt!

³ Where do you get the ideas for the pictures from ?
¹
 - Very  strange  ideas...   e.g.  in the case of The Dog!  I tried to imagine,
   how  a  bitch  (female  dog)  would  look  like  while  being  fucked  by me
   ............   Now you can watch The Dog (final title:  `The Bitch`!) again,
   and you`ll see that I got it quite well ..........

³ What is your aim as an graphician, and what is Sanity's aim(If any, ofcourse)?

¹ - To draw my gfx best as possible (for me). To have fun (!!!) and to release
   high-quality stuff. To meet nice people.

³ How long time do you usually spend in front of your computer each day ?

¹ - About 2 CDs long ...

³ How long does it take you to make a picture like the one from THE PARTY ?

¹ - I don`t know exactly because I drew the left and the lower part of the dog 
   (bitch) at the party ! So I still have to improve these parts. But I think 
   that it took me about 20 hours (?).

³ Please tell about coming productions from Sanity ?

¹ - "Jester Day" - music disk!
   Music: ....Jester!
   Code:  Chaos!
   Graphics: Cougar! + one pic. by Havok (friendship to Jester)!
   Release date: Ce-Bit!

 - Trackdemo
   Code by Cosmos, Zap and Microforce!
   Gfx: Cthulu (?)!
   Sfx: ???
   Release date: April!?

 - "Broken Promisses" - Trackdemo (2-3 disks)!
   Code:  Chaos!! Mr. Pet! and ...
   Graphics: Cougar! Cthulu! Cruiser!
   Music: Jester! Bit Arts (?)!
   Release date: Summer!

 - And some other crap ..... 

³ Please give your opinion about the following graphicsians and comment on 
 their way of drawing :

² Iridon of Shining:
¹
 - Nice  style.  It seems that he spends a lot of time on his pictures.  Surely
   one of the best!  He showed me some of his pictures and some outlines


 ²Fresh of Anarchy (Former Axis member):

 ¹- I can`t remember any gfx of him ...

 ²Michael Balle of Silents:

¹ - His strength doesen`t seem to consist in drawing amazing pictures but in 
   making impressive animations (e.g. in `Global Trash 2`! or `Hardwired`).

² UNO of Scoopex:

 ¹- His latest pictures are quite good (e.g. the two pics he drew for Zine). But 
   he is not the Nr.1 any more. My personal ranking: (only) Nr.3! 

 ²Mithrandir of Acme:
 ¹- Nice graphics. It`s a pitty that many of his (released) pictures look a bit 
   unfinished or drawn in hurry. It seems that he doesen`t want to spend too 
   much time on a single picture. 

 ²JOE of TRSI:

 ¹- When I started to draw gfx on Amiga JOE has been my Idol. I admired him for 
   his great gfx he had done in `Xenomorphs`. Since there I`ve only seen one 
   picture of him; and today my gfx are much better than the days I began .... 

 ²Slash of Anarchy:

 ¹- The gfx of the `3D Demo` are nice. He is also able to paint pretty logos and 
   fonts.

 ²Bustman of Crusaders:

¹ - It  is  nice  that  not everybody has the same style, cool.But I don`t think
   that he can reach the top five with his style.

 ²Rack of Majic 12:

¹ - I  love the great font that he drew for `Ray Of Hope 2`.  But I was a little
   bit dissapointed of the titlepic from the latest `Top Secret`-issue.  He has
   also a quite significant style.

 ²Have you made some graphics for commercial use ?

 ¹- Yes, I do some gfx for a game. And there are still many interesting offers.

 ³Would you like to make a living by drawing gfx, and are you planning to do
 that ?
 
 ¹- ??????????!.............

 ³Do you have an idol in graphics (Bitman Broth. or ...) ?
 ¹- Marc Coleman and the `Beast`-graphician !   

 ³Besides making gfx, what do you do ? Do you paint ?

 ¹- Many nice things ........

 ³Who is your favourite painter (Van gogh, Picasso or...) and why ?

¹ - I  like  the  surrealistic  pictures  of Salvador Dali.  He painted with his
   paranoic-critical method pictures of extremly hallutinatoric sharpness.  But
   there  (were)  are  also  many  other artist whose work I admire, e.g Caspar
   David Friedrich, Boris Vallejo .....

³ Which group/s do you admire most for their productions,members,coolness,
 friendship and so on, if you have to concern all these matters ?
¹
 - I    respect:    Silents   (productions,   members);   Phenomena   (members,
   productions); Shining (members); Brainstorm (Zine); Alcatraz (productions)
³ Ok, I guess that we have reached the end of this interview. Now you have the 
 possibillity to write anything you want. 

¹ - If you feel like sending me some money, or if you are a pretty bitch, or ...
   then write to my address that is mentioned in the Sanity sounddisks `Turmoil`
   and `Jester Day` ...........