John Waltrip has been drawing comics for over 20 years. But he is only one half of the twin drawing duo of "the Waltrip Brothers," best know for their work on the Robotech Sentinels comics. They are the main illustrators of the “Guilded Age” web-comic.
Lizard Theory
Sets Oil Operators Agog
OIL OPERATORS ARE enjoying what they
believe to be a joke perpetrated by one
of their own kind who has solemnly asserted that the deposits of oil found in
various parts of the U.S. are
the direct result of the decomposition
of some form of lizard which inhabited the Earth at a prehistoric period.
According to this investigator, who sets
forth his findings in the most serious
fashion, the lizards inhabited a vast
inland sea that extended from the Alleghenies to the Rockies. He believes
these reptiles were from 40 to 80 feet
long and weighed many tons each and
were largely composed of fat. When
the upheaval took place which threw
the plains above the water, all the
creatures that were its inhabitants
took refuge in pools and the water in
these was gradually evaporated. As
this water was being evaporated the
lives of these amphibious animals were
sacrificed and the fat was literally
boiled out of them. The oil rose to
the surface and was covered with a
layer of dust and sand that became so
heavy it sank. In the meantime, other
lizards were being boiled out and a
new layer of oil formed on the top of
the water, which collected its stratum
of dust and sand and sank on top of
the first, thus forming the successive
layers of oil-bearing sands and oil
pools. The operator who set forth this
theory declared he believes some of
the lizards were big enough to produce
from 800 to 1,000 bbl. of oil. —“Popular Mechanics,” June, 1911