My old friend Justin Green died late last month. Obituaries have been appearing that begin to plumb the depths of his work, life, and influence: [nytimes.com](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/30/arts/justin-green-who-put-himself-into-his-underground-cartoons-dies-at-76.html), [chicagotribune.com](https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-justin-green-comics-obituary-20220429-fq2nxm67r5ewtdnu7nvt7ceyui-story.html), [tcj.com](https://www.tcj.com/justin-green-1945-2022/), [cbr.com](https://www.cbr.com/binky-brown-creator-justin-green-obituary/), [dailycartoonist.com](https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/04/26/justin-green-rip/). As I [mentioned](https://disquiet.com/2022/04/26/rip-justin-green-1945-2022/) when the news broke of his passing, I was fortunate to live in the same town as him, Sacramento, California, in the early 1990s, which led to me editing a ton of comics that he produced for the pages of Tower Records’ *Pulse!* magazine. After I began to process the news of his death, I looked through an old file of documents from that period of time, and I found this copy I’d made of a letter I sent to him following our first phone conversation. Eventually he would decide to, rather than create a serial, produce a sequence of richly idiosyncratic and lovingly rendered biographies and anecdotes from musical history, which the publisher Last Gasp later collected in the book *Musical Legends*. The letter is from mid-November 1991. His first strip of many would appear in the March issue of *Pulse!* the following year.
