++ WILDMAN likes "Cartoon Heroes" ? ++
Shogo(S from now)：First and foremost, I would like to ask you.... Did you always like drawing?
Wildman Ishii(W from now)：Hmm..Yeh I guess, had nothing better to do.
S ：I guess pictures of cars?
W：Cars and Trains. Well I'm no Train Maniac though.
S ：There seem to be a lot of car lovers, lovings trains.
W：Most of them seem to, except hide it.
S ：Do you collect novelty items too?
W：No train items but I do collect miniature cars.
S ：Miniature Cars eh?
W：Ever since my childhood days.
S ：Did you only draw inanimate objects, and no humans?
W：When I was little, I reckon I drew some heroes, but mainly cars and motorbikes.
S ：Have you always liked Motorcycles?
W：I always liked the sidecar idea when I was little.
S ：Ki - Kai - Da (*1) must of influenced you.
W：Must Be.
S ：Your Mach 1 is too. (W's car)
W：And might have something to do with Mach 7.
S ：Who?
W：Hahaha,...
S ：That used to be a cartoon, wasn't it?
W： Yep, they Also did a movie of it.
S ：Didn't know that. Must be from them then.

*1: Ki - Kai - Da and Mach 1 were Cartoon Hero programs broadcasted in Japan.

-My Dark Ages?-
S ：Did you recieve lots of awards in school?
W：Not awards, but did get some what good grades.
S: Cool!
W：But that was it, I was a horrid Maths student,
S ：Not just arts?
W：Like you know, the 3d Modelings.
S ：Yes,
W：I used to use the Metro Buses as motifs.
S ：Are any of those left somewhere?
W：Nah I think they all went in the bin.
S ：No photos you kept or...
W：It would be great if I did, but nah.
S When you were in Junior High and Highschool, were you in the Art Clubs and stuff?
W：Nope, just liked to draw and stuff but no clubs, also I didn't get along with the teachers that much either.
S ：Heheehe.
W：When in 7th, 8th grade, I used to tick the teacher off because I only drew cars, and he was one of those old geezer teachers.
S ：I see
W：Finally when I was a Freshman, I clicked with the teacher, and it was great.
S ：Maybe he liked cars.
W：I think it was more of the age thing. Like the previous geezer really was the race horse type. He just liked to take things the good old way.
S ：So if he was a geezer when you were in Junior Highschool, he must be 90 by now.
W：Its been atleast 20 years...
S ：I guess he just didn't like English overall.
W：English as in like designing terms you know.

-Cartoons and Baseball-
S ：Didn't you ever want to become a cartoonist?
W：I liked cartoons but I'm no freak !!!
S ：(Laugh）
W：Drew some in School.
S ：Any of those left?
W：Nah, They were on scrap paper. Baseball Cartoons.
S ：Baseball Cartoons?
W：I liked Baseball
S ：To play?
W：When I was little, but watching pros mainly.
S ：Like Oh, and Nagashima.
W：I was anti-Giants though.
S ：Anti-Giants?
W：My Dad was always a Taiyo Whales fan. Was extatic when they won 4 years ago
S ：I bet.
W：And last year they were last place.
S ：(Laugh)
W：But that's the way its supposed to be.
S ：If you say so.
W：It's funner cheering a weak team.
S ：I guess lady victory didn't shine on the Whales
W：Yokohama is better without any starts.
S ：I only know Tashiro
W：Thats the guy that looked like a homebase.
S ：Yep
W：Something like that.
S ：I still got an autograph I got in Kawasaki
S ：Kawasaki?
W：Taiyo used to be in Kawasaki.
S ：So you didn't want to go into the Cartoon industry?
W：Nah, I found my virtues somewhere else
S ：Oh ok.
W：I'd run out of ideas.
S ：I bet you couldn't do the newspaper comics.
W：Nope.
S ：But you are drawing things everyday anyways.
W：But this and that are 2 different things.

-Tennis Boy-
S ：Did you draw in Highschool?
W：Nah, not in Highschool.
S ：Then what were you doing?
W：I was a tennis boy.
S ：Soft?
W：Hard.
S ：Thank god you didn't break something back then or else MOON woudln't of had you today.
W：It was hip back then, in the early 80s.
S ：Oh John Borg?
W：and Jimmy Connors, and stuff.
S ：Tacchini Right?
W：Tennis was the thing in Japan.
Kid Rocker（K）：I was just born!
W：Then you don't know Pink Lady!
S ：Huh?

S ：How bout Vocational School?
W：Went straight into the Sign Board business.
S ：Do you like lettering more than pictures
W：I used to like pictures but lettering is just so much fun.
S ：Ever since JH?
W：Designing the Alphabet was just too good.
S ：interesting...
W：Looked at different articles on vanning and stuff for ideas.
S ：Popeye the magazine came out when you were in JH.
W：I was a 6th grader, and I have all of them upto 200.
S ：Cool!
W：Shige-san is more of the age.
S ：So if you didn't meet the teacher, you wouldn't of been a pinstriper maybe.
W：But I did.
S ：HS wasn't so fun?
W：HS was good cuz I had a lot of good points in Art.
S ：Is your report card still around?
W：I don't remember. all I remember is Tennis !
-The Poster Boy-
S ：While lettering for fun, you decided to go into the poster, ad, signboard business.
W：Yep
S ：About 5 years in the business?
W：Yep., about 5 years.
S ：Could you of continued?
W：Yes I could of, but by then most signboard businesses were going out of business.
S ：Oh really?
W：Everything is done by computers now a days.
S ：So I guess all that's left are old people.
W：Most are retired, and any left are using generated cutting sheets.
S ：With computers.
W：It's cheaper, faster, I guess that's mass productive.
S ：They just seem so cheap though.
W：But most people now a days like it cheap.
S ：I guess. But some must want real paintings though.
W：There must be, especially for cars.
S ：How 'bout the Bread trucks?
W：Those are all sheets.
S ：So if I scratch them, will they peel?
W：They will.
K ：That's good 'cus its easy to interchange them.
W：So again, it's cheaper, and easier, and faster.
S ：Were you an apprentice?
W：No, no no. But was taught to steal skills
S ：That's the way.
W：Especially the guys that painted the Movie Signs
S ：That must be a lot of work.
W：Yeah, no kidding.
S ：Did you have a Master?
W：No but was surprised by this guy who
S ：surprised?
W：just got a pen and did lettering.
S ：Yes,
W：Without measuring or anything.
S ：That's how we feel when we see you stripe.
W：Something Like That

-Shige san, my master-
S ：You tried to go into the ad art business when MOONEYES in Motomachi opened in 86 and you joined in 89, 3 years huh.
W：Yes. Shopped there three years.
S ：I thought you joined immediately.
W：no no no no.
S ：And one day Shige - san asked you to pinstripe.
W：Just a bit though, helping here and there.
S ：Were you actually pinstriping then?
W：Yeh, a little, but thought damn this is hard.
S ：How did your pinstriping life come about?
W：Shige - san first was the one who wanted to pinstripe. He even gave me his favorite brush.

S ：Gee.... W：Yep, his brush. S ：Realy? W：He gave it to me. S ：No way, really? W：He was like, here use this, it's a present. S ：Still have it? W：Maybe if I look hard enough. It's old and ragged since it was the one I practiced with.