He Drew His Own Shoes Himself

Marc Johnson and the thing about people who build from scratch.

I thought about writing about something else today. Every turn led me back to this.

Marc Johnson passed away yesterday. He was 49.

I don’t know how to write about death in this newsletter, and I’m not going to pretend I’ve figured it out. What I know is that Marc Johnson mattered, to skateboarding, to skate footwear, to a generation of people who watched …