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aaron a.

By all means, mock me vigorously.

About Me

I write and draw comic books. It turns out that's a lot of work.More specifically, I'm the "goth sensation" responsible for Serenity Rose (from Slave Labor Graphics) and two books for DC's MINX label, Kimmie66 and Confessions of a Blabbermouth (co-written by Mike and Louise Carey).Also, I used to do character designs for a show called Invader Zim that was murdered and buried many thousands of years ago.MY WEBSIGHT (for more awesomes!) is HEARTSHAPEDSKULL.COM . There's a Serenity cartoon there and everything.You can buy most of my ORIGINAL ART right about here. Serenity Rose pages, Fables sketches, Vicious stuff and more, reasonably priced for all occasions.That is all.

My Interests

Comics, zombie matters, spooky music, skepticism, kitty-cats, glorious eccentrics of all shapes and kinds, wild speculation about the future, monsters, steampunkery, wrought iron furnishings, H.P. Lovecraft and, of course, Disneyland (Pirates of the Caribbean is my church, my god Thurl Ravenscroft).I am also interested in you possibly BUYING MY BOOK, Serenity Rose Vol. 1: Working Through the Negativity, available for a song* simply by clicking the image below.*not really.

I'd like to meet:

Me in a dark alley. I think I could take him.

Music:

OH BOY TIME FOR LISTING! The Birthday Massacre, Rasputina, Morrissey, Babyland, Meg Lee Chin, Pop Will Eat Itself, Ima Robot, The Arcade Fire, Bloc Party, Iris, Eels, Voltaire, Jack Off Jill, Magnetic Fields, The Chameleons, Lunarclick, Spray, The Modern, Switchblade Symphony, Collide, VNV Nation, Dr. Steel, Depeche Mode, New Order, Erasure, Joy Division, Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, The Damage Manual, KMFDM/MDFMK, Brainclaw, Sister Machine Gun, Spahn Ranch, Siouxsie, The Cure, Interpol, The Smashing Pumpkins, Stolen Babies, Ruby, and that "You're The Best... AROUND!" song from Karate Kid. God, that's awesome.

Movies:

Ed Wood, Crumb, Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Rushmore, Aliens, The Thing, American Movie, Evil Dead 2, Coffee & Cigarettes, Life of Brian, Kill Bill and the collected works of Mr. Hayao Miyazaki. Oh, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. We must never forget The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Television:

The Office, The Simpsons, The Daily Show/Colbert Report diad, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Penn & Teller's HORSEPUCKY!, The Venture Brothers, Mythbusters and an oft-whispered prayer that someday, somewhere, someone will finally (FINALLY) make a sci-fi TV show that doesn't make me sleepy.

Books:

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, A Confederacy of Dunces, At the Mountains of Madness, Guns, Germs and Steel, The Demon-Haunted World, The Blank Slate, Fabric of the Cosmos, His Dark Materials and, oh lord, here come the comics: Transmetropolitan, Fables, Black Hole, Sandman, American Splendor, The Acme Novelty Library, Optic Nerve, Eightball, DMZ, Bone, Watchmen (shock!), The Contract With God Trilogy, Ed the Happy Clown, Wet Moon, The Abandoned, Demo, Y: The Last Man, Lucifer, Hellboy, The Goon, The Walking Dead, Nightmares & Fairytales, Shutterbox, Ranklechick and His 3-Legged Cat, Calvin & Hobbes, Akira, all the EC Comics in the world (and most of the Creepies) and a thousand million other things that make my stuff look just silly in comparison.

Heroes:

Bill.Chaz.H.P.

My Blog

Server Down!

I just got home from tofu-eating to discover my server seems to be down. I guess they’re transporting it or somesuch. Sorry about that! Page 009 will be a little later than usual, but it shou...
Posted by aaron a. on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:35:00 PST

SERENITY ROSE VOL. 2

IS ALIVE.Now, if you’ve been keeping up with the ol’ journal for the past few months, you’ve probably already seen Page 001 here. Big letdown, eh? But wait, what’s that you a...
Posted by aaron a. on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:12:00 PST

EXTREME FATAL WRASSLIN.

Uh oh, looks like our gal Sera's got herself a little competition. I'm pretty sure Sera could take her (y'know, magic and all), but I have to admit this "leg feed enzuigiri" has me a little worried. ...
Posted by aaron a. on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:23:00 PST

Calvin & Hobbes.

And there they are!Now, for whatever reason, when I started this "commissions" thing it never occurred to me someone might ask for a Calvin & Hobbes sketch. Which is really odd because, y'know, Bill ...
Posted by aaron a. on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:29:00 PST

Commissions: ROUND ONE.

Hey all. Just a quick note to let you know I'll be working on the first round of commissions later this week, so if you'd like something sooner rather than later, let me know right quick. I probably...
Posted by aaron a. on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:48:00 PST

My Stereotype Weekend!

(Originally posted at THE NEW SITE, reposted here just to screw with Ross.)SO! If you were to guess at what a guy who draws "dark" comics does on his weekends... it would probably look very similar t...
Posted by aaron a. on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:04:00 PST

AT LAST...

"...MY ARM IS COMPLETE AGAIN."
Posted by aaron a. on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:38:00 PST

Super-bowl Madness!

In honor of Super-bowl Sunday, the gofflin and I went out to our neighborhood art theater to see a French cartoon about Iranians. Of course, we only watched it for the commercials. Then we had dinner...
Posted by aaron a. on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:58:00 PST

Exactly the sort of journal post that people delete out of embarrassment the very next day.

Hey-o. So I just got back from two solid weeks of holiday away-ness and stumbled directly into one of those big, horrible "moods" I stumble directly into sometimes. It has nothing to do with the hol...
Posted by aaron a. on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:33:00 PST

The Great Holiday Art Sale.

Ho ho ho!Christmastime is upon us, and 'tis the season of compensated giving at the heartshapedskull.com web store. Yes indeed, the GREAT HOLIDAY ART SALE is go!Over 50 original pages from Serenity R...
Posted by aaron a. on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:50:00 PST