The Other Kevin Smith

Loren Kantor
5 min readOct 5, 2022
Woodcut of commercial director Kevin Stofer Smith.

Kevin Stofer Smith began his career in Hollywood one month after graduating high school. He followed his older brother Albert to the now defunct Producer’s Studio in 1976 where his first production job required him to shatter twenty large mirrors and sweep up the shards for a Boz Scaggs music video. Forty-six years later, Kevin hopes any bad luck was left behind him.

Kevin joined the commercial production company Paisley Productions in 1977. The…

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Loren Kantor

Loren is a writer and woodcut artist based in Los Angeles. He teaches printmaking and creative writing to kids and adults.