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• Gail Anderson commented on Nick Dewar, 1973-2010
  I think Nick did his final job for us at SpotCo. It was a series of sketches for a poster for a show, and though he was quite ill at the time, he was determined to finish the project. Nick was a lovely guy, and I was such a fan of his illustration. Such sad news......
• Kate Elazegui commented on Nick Dewar, 1973-2010
  we've probably all sat at our desks after reading through belabored art memos, racking our heads with "who can i call to do this? who can make sense of it?!" and after pouring through samples and sites, thinking..."nick dewar! nick dewar! nick dewar will save me!" Of course catching him with available time was a whole other affair. i was all to aware that i wasn't the sole admirer of nick's beautifully crafted and uniquely clever talent. It was that whole-hearted belief that he could and would transform that art memo into genius work. And although the last time i...
• Scott Dadich commented on Nick Dewar, 1973-2010
  I was working with Nick on a series of illustrations back at Texas Monthly in Austin. We were working through some sketches one particularly stressful afternoon and I had commented that I was looking forward to having a drink that evening. The topic of course turned to our favorite brown liquors. Being a Texas boy, my tonic of choice had always been bourbon whiskey. Nick felt it necessary to extoll the particular virtues of his favorite Islay scotch whisky, Laphroaig. I had never really tried scotch at this point, but Nick did his best to describe the briny flavors of...