border="0" src="http://www.woostercollective.com/images/mca_logo.jpg" align=
"left"> Since seeing his stuff for the first time a few weeks ago at the href=
"http://www.woostercollective.com/2003_02_02_newsarchive.html#90294515">Faesthet
ic/55DSL opening, Hoodie can’t stop talking about MCA and "http://www.evildesign.com">Evil Design. Late last week, MCA shot us the Q’s
to our A’s:

Wooster: How did you get started in creating art
for the street?

MCA: Well I didn’t really do it consciously, I
just always liked to draw and do comics and characters and weird graphics - then
one day (way back) a kid gave me some stickers of his band and told me he got
them made at Copy Copy, so of course I made up a sheet of the new Paul Reubens
as the devil graphic I did and got my first stickers made b&w xerox style. I
don’t really see myself as a street artist, compared to someone like Shepard who
is out all night wheat pasting, but some of my stickers do end up stuck on light
posts and stuff for the kids to see which is cool.

Wooster: 
What originally inspired you to do the Evil characters and logos? Why Evil?
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MCA: Well my grandfather was the main man who got me into
drawing from ever since I can remember. As far as the characters go, it just was
a natural progression after copying Mad magazine & Heathcliff comics to go ahead
and make up yer own folks. The Evil name came from that Paul Reubens graphic, I
just wrote “evil” under it and somehow just kept using it with all the stuff
that followed. It’s not meant in the real deal Satan worshipping way, but more
in the paranoid suburban mom way of thinking that things like punk rock & heavy
metal were evil.

Wooster:  What other street artists do you
most admire and why?

MCA: Well,  "http://www.obeygiant.com">Shepard is awesome, just the way he created an
icon and ran full force with it covering most the the world along the way.  I
like Kaws a lot, he’s kind of
doing a similar thing with that recognizable skull/sperm & crossbones icon and
his toys are sick, I’d love to do toys of my characters like that. "http://www.faile.net">Faile’s posters are really cool, I like the
juxtaposition of images. "http://www.graffiti.org/espo/pieces.html">Espo’s Community Improvement
stuff is nice and a great idea. There was a guy in Boston this past Christmas
stenciling "http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/this_just_in/documents/025839
54.htm">“Santa is Real” on lamp posts and on the sidewalk everywhere, I
though that was pretty good way to cheer up a few of the grumpy folks bumbling
around during the holiday season.

Wooster: What’s your
favorite city, neighborhood, or block, to post and/or to see street art?
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MCA: NYC is best, the whole area where you guys are always has a
bunch of new stuff to see, especially If have time to just wonder around that
area of New York and check out back alley streets, you always find cool stuff. I
have started to notice more stuff popping up in Boston recently, which is cool.
It’s always good to be walking from point A to point B and look down and see a
sticker with a sick graphic that you’d hadn’t seen before.


/>Wooster:  What inspires you now?

MCA:  I’m inspired
by people with a crazy work ethic, it makes me think I’m not doing half as much
work as I should be - which is good, you gotta push yourself.  Music is also a
great inspiration, people like "http://www.kid606.com/home.html">Kid606, "http://www.andrewwk.com/">Andrew WK, "http://www.elektra.com/elektra/missyelliott/index.jhtml;jsessionid=ZRS5NJ45AGBK
OQAMEEQSFFA?_requestid=358807">Missy Elliot, "http://www.boredoms.co.uk/">the Boredoms, "http://student.bard.edu/~ba935/front.html">Le Tigre, Wire, stuff like that
can really get you going.