Meet Rick Veitch

Rick Veitch draws in his Townshend, Vt. studio on Sept. 8

By DANIEL BARLOW
Southern Vermont Bureau
TOWNSHEND - Rick Veitch first saw the image of Chad Roe, his businessman protagonist tattooed head-to-toe in indelible ink, as he watched the second World Trade Center tower fall on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.

Veitch, a Townshend cartoonist who has written and drawn comic books professionally for 30 years, already had parts of his new comic worked out: He wanted it to be literate, novel-like and factor in an urban legend about a man who finds covered in permanent magic marker.

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