The Palais Royale was the rickety bar two doors down from my old apartment in Albany, NY. Go back in time to 2000, step inside and here's what you'll see: a gigantic blonde barmaid so large she once literally clawed a would-be thief into submission, kid-sized bottles of beer, a layer of secondhand smoke so thick it could drop a puma, TWO jukeboxes, and enough grit, grime, knickknacks & cancerous paneling to make even the hardest worn frat house stand and salute with a tear in its eye.

LONG LIVE THE FUCKIN' PALAIS!

These drawings were created within the course of a few Saturday evenings at the Palais in 2000 & 2001 by Aaron Holz, Brant Moorefield, Kim Hugo, Janssen Stegner, Mike Schuetz, Chris Carson, Sara DiDanato, Matt Hamilton, Monique Prohaska, Maria Ermides, Michelle Wright & myself. The rules were simple: work on the drawing for a while, and then pass it along.

BANNER PHOTOS BY AARON HOLZ