In trying to narrow down the exact moment that Bigfork area illustrator, artist and graphic designer Isaac Passwater’s love for drawing fused with his love for horror, science fiction and fantasy, there are a couple likely suspects.

A good starting point might be the first time he saw the 1990 horror comedy “Tremors” as a kid. Set in the American southwest, the movie follows the efforts of Valentine McKee (Kevin Bacon) and Earl Basset (Fred Ward) and a wider cast of characters as they try to get to the bottom of unexplained deaths near the dusty town of Perfection.

Those deaths are eventually revealed to be the work of a group of subterranean worm-like creatures called graboids, which tend to reveal their approach with a distinct Etch-A-Sketch-like furrow of raised earth.

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