It’s a little late, but I was really saddened to hear about his death of lung cancer. A talented Oscar-nominated animation artist who suffered from years of alcohol and drug abuse, Larkin spent most of his life in homeless shelters. He was brought back into the spotlight with Chris Landreth’s Oscar-winning short Ryan, and was once again working–on a film called Spare Change, about panhandling, which Larkin once referred to as performance art.
This article appears in Feb 22-28, 2007.