Terry Warner was born in Jim Thorp, Pennsylvania. His father was in the military. The oldest of three girls he moved to San Diego when he was three. As a child he was picked on a lot by a neighborhood kid named Victor. Victor did not like him because he was one of the only white kids in that neighborhood. He excelled in math and later became a tutor for some of the football students. One in particular was a massive young man who needed help getting a C to be eligible to play football. From then on that massive young man was now Terry’s bodyguard. Terry loved to draw as a kid. If it hadn’t been for his father disapproving of being a artist, Terry might of ended up somewhere else.
Terry went to collage at South Western. His favorite class was theater and had hopes of one day becoming a stand up comic. As a young man he was very active in outdoor activities. One day as he was climbing Half dome he lost his grip and fell 25 ft., slamming into the rock surface. He sustained damage to his back ,and was not able to rock climb any longer. Terry’s first job came 1 month before he was supposed to graduate college. Edison Brother gave him a great opportunity to learn so he left school. Two and a half years later he had become the youngest assistant director in the companies history.
As he grew as an artist he had only one major regret, which was not getting into freelancing work at earlier stage in his career. In November ‘44 he started a teaching career at Platt. Terry finds that as a young artist you have to be proficient in both web and print, as well as being able to sell yourself or “pimp yourself out” in his own words. If he had two weeks to go anywhere he wanted his first choice would be Kilomejera, Africa or any where in the Out-back of Australia.
I thought that Terry was a great person to interview. His life was full of experience after experience. It seems like even today their is not a lot that slows him down. He is full of life and is very animated. He seems very intelligent and seems like the kind of person that you could learn a lot from. All in all I was very happy to meet him.