The Dream Monster was first born when its creator was in first or second grade, a six-legged dinosaur with the same sleepy eyes and goofy smile everyone recognizes today.
“I always had like really bad allergies,” Matthew Jay Martinez, an El Paso artist, said. “So when people would go outside to play during recess or lunch, I would stay inside a lot of times and I would draw. People would ask me to draw them stuff.”
“And so I would draw a lot of cartoons for people, you know, the traditional classic cartoons. But I would also work on my own characters.”…