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Lee

Art Monkey

About Me

Artboy/Retroboy/Indieboy/Farmboy/Twigboy. Funny haircut. Draws things.

leeoconnor.com

Also:

-- LiveJournal -- DeviantArt Page -- ComicSpace Page --


My Interests

Drawing, Sketching, Painting, Illustration, Comics, Comix, Graphic Novels, Fumetti, Bande Dessinée, Graco, Historieta, Komiks, Manga, Manhwa, Manhua, Webcomics, Strip cartoons, Artwork, Art, Fine Art, 'The Arts', Media, Zines, Photography, Music, Culture, Temperance, Videogames, The Gentleman's Code , Reading, Story-driven films of the mid-Seventies, Thinking, Fait 500s, Grinning.

I'd like to meet:

You.


Music:

The Fall, Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Meanwhile Back in Communist Russia, Boards of Canada, Hefner, Swans, Angels of Light, Mountain Goats, Sigur Ros, And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Bonnie Prince Billy, Ten Benson, Life Without Buildings, Clinic, Half Man Half Biscuit, Lowgold, Clearlake, Tim Buckley, I am Kloot, The Zephyrs, The Baptist Generals, At the Drive-in, Pitman, John Spencer Blues Explosion, Urusei Yatsura, King Tubby, Six by Seven, Autechre, The Beta Band, The Creators, Fela Kuti, Electrelane, Chet Baker, Efterklang

Movies:

Wings of Honnaemise, Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro, The Glassy Ocean, Once Upon a Time in the West, M*A*S*H

Television:

The Armando Iannucci Shows, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Vidz, Open University Keywords

Books:

Alec, Eddie Campbell, Vurt, Jeff Noon, Cages, Dave McKean, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami, From Hell, Alan Moore, Ghost World, David Boring, Daniel Clowes, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Acme Novelty Library, Chris Ware

Heroes:

John Peel, Captain Goto from the anime 'Kido Keisatsu Patlabor'

My Blog

A Good Sit-Down

A wee sketch of the main characters from Headstone Blues have a lovely, manly meal together....
Posted by Lee on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:44:00 PST

Goodwill to All Men

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, youse. Here's to 2008!(Apologies for the the return of Highly Questionable Santa, it's just he got some good feedback last year...)...
Posted by Lee on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:12:00 PST

Iraq Book Roundup

Well, the Institute of Contemporary Arts panel was flippin' great. Many thanks to everybody who turned up and sold it out! I was a bit nervous, but I thought I managed to engage the audience pretty we...
Posted by Lee on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 04:13:00 PST

ICA Panel Details (or, ’They let us have comics in the building and talk about them’)

Get a load of this, you can come to London and see myself and Sean talking about our Iraq: Operation Corporate Takeover graphic novel in a proper Arts venue and everything. We'd love to have you alon...
Posted by Lee on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 02:51:00 PST

Iraq: Operation Corporate Takeover - The Cover!

The Iraq book has a name, and it's Iraq: Operation Corporate Takeover. It's at the printers in Quebec right now. Here's the final cover:The guys with the guns are Private Military Security Contractors...
Posted by Lee on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 03:52:00 PST

Iraq Incorporated

I've been working on a pretty big project recently - a docu-drama graphic novel published by the International charity War on Want all about the reconstruction of post-invasion Iraq.It's a 74 page boo...
Posted by Lee on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:58:00 PST

The Essence of Tong

It's been a funny ol' weekend, thanks to what I've been upto:Little gift for the people who make the BBC videogame show Videogaiden and it's original web counterpart, Consolevania. They pitched a game...
Posted by Lee on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 04:21:00 PST

Headstone Blues II

Italian comic pitch all coloured and lettered and looking alright, h'actually. Headstone Blues is all about corruption and racism in 1930's Tennessee. The pitch pages of the porlogue here involve the ...
Posted by Lee on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:59:00 PST

"If only we had someone with the powers of jungle creatures!"

I forgot about this - it's a photie from the Birmingham Comics Show (Or, "Brumcon", to you and me) last year. With the apparent 70th anniversary of pulp costumed adventurer The Phantom, the organisers...
Posted by Lee on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:59:00 PST

Holiday Haul

2006 is dead. We killed it. Long live 2006! Happy New Year, you lot.Here's some scans and photies of some artistic (eh?) presents I gave my friends for Chrishmash;That's a promo image for the greates...
Posted by Lee on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:28:00 PST