S.m.o.g.

August, 1986

Some People work out the accounting of their lives by stretching out on psychiatrists' couches; some work off excess guilt by jogging to a frenzy with their Walkmans; and one brave soul we know lowers his body into a tepid tank of water and shuts out the problematic world. Our bachelor Bruce David lives in Los Angeles, where he cartoons his S.M.O.G. feature for the L.A. Weekly, writes television comedy—including two episodes of Family Ties—carouses and allows his subconscious to flourish and be...