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Mike Manley

Man, you're like something out of an old comicbook!

About Me

A recent commission

My upcoming Gallery Show! Stop on by and get some wine, zombies and cheese.

A monster painting for my upcoming show at the Axd Gallery

A recent still life study
A recent Plien Air paintingdone in Germantown Philadelphia.

Big Beautiful Wonderwoman

Splinter and casey Jones from TALES #33

A recent Still Life painting

Another Still life

A page from Aquaman 49
Another Aquaman page

A page from the Ninja Turtles story I am drawing.

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Two pages rom the Creepertins story in the new PCS Anthology

My Interests

Art: Drawing, cartooning, painting, teaching, sketching....it's all a big mix being creative, one thing feeds another. Travel, having cartoonist parties and B-B-Q's. Shopping for old stuff, books, etc., going to museums, hanging with freinds, playing board games, especially pictionary. Cooking, my dog Shazam (I love dogs) Movies, etc. My interests are all extensions of my artistic passion and drive and my good freindships.

I'd like to meet:

Hmm, this is a hard one. I have met many of my heroes, some were kind, gracious people, some were assholes. I don't have that obcession that so many people have with celebrity. The people I'd like to meet would probably be artist now long dead like Prud hon, Dean Cornwell, Dega, Maynard Dixion, Walt Disney, Hank Ketcham, John Buscema, Hitchcock.

Music:

I have really ecclectic tastes since I like all kinds of music. From TMG to Sinatra, world music, soundtracks etc. I often have I-tunes playing in the studio as I work. A few faves are: They Might Be Giants, Vast, Peter Gabriel, the Beatles, Sinatra (colombia years) Bowie, Sachmo, Cesaria Evora, Randy Newman, Paul Kelly, Calexico, Coldplay, Outkast, some old country, blue grass, Classical: Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Pucini, lots of 60's, 70s and 80's music. Talking Heads, David Byrne, Lori Anderson, Electronic music: Tangerine Dream, Steve Roach, Michael Sterns, Philip Glass. I love to mix-it-up on my CD player.

Movies:

Full Metal Jacket, Nightmare Before X-mas, Casaclanca, Notorious, 2001, The Philadelphia Story, Artists and Models, The Apartment, the Incredilbles, The Matrix, Citizen Kane, Wizard of OZ, StarWars, The Day Earth Stood Still, Delicatessen, Amile, City of Lost Children, The Shining, Soilent Green, Sideways, Maltese Falcon, Defending Your Life, Films by Eastwood ( Including the Leoni Spagehtti westerns) Once upon A Time in the West, Frankenstien, Arsenic and Old lace, Corpse Bride.

Television:

Mostly HBO and Showtime: DEXTER! (Was)Deadwood, Sopranos, Rome, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Wire, Bill Maher. Gallatica, Lost ( it's very uneven) Don't watch much network TV at all. I love TCM, hate that AMC has commercials. I'd watch old shows like The Munsters or Gusmoke (the B/W eps) Some Nic toons, Some cartoon Network, though they don't have much I watch anymore, mostly Adult Swim. Discovery and History Channel. Travel Channel, Food net. I have digital cable which gives me hundreds of channels with nothing good to watch on them, so I mostly watch TV at night to fall asleep or to break up the boredom of working late in the studio.

Books:

I wish I read more books on fiction and non -fiction, though I do read all of the time. Currently reading The Revenge of Thomas Eakins. I read a lot of magazines (mostly art related) and a lot on line, Blogs etc. I am always reading scripts for the work I do. I enjoyed Cornel West's Democracy Matters and H.P. Lovecraft's The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories.

My Blog

OUT INTO THE FUTURE Goodbeye 07 Hello 08!

As i take some time here at the end of this busy year to sort of clean house, straigten up the studio, rifle through the little piles of debri from the busy life of being an artist walking in two worl...
Posted by Mike Manley on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:48:00 PST

Schools Out!

Schools out at DCAD, and my final grades are turned in...fates are sealed! :-)I have to say it was a mixed year for me as a teacher, some good students and some really weak students, moreso than any y...
Posted by Mike Manley on Fri, 11 May 2007 08:39:00 PST

Free Comic Day

Free Comic Book Day was great once again! I had a great time hanging out with the many fans and their families as i sketched away all day. Spidey, batman, Superman were the most requested heroes once...
Posted by Mike Manley on Sun, 06 May 2007 09:51:00 PST

2006 best year ever!

2005 ended strong and 2006 is off to the best start it could have. I feel this year has the potential to be the best year of my personal and professional life. I can't imagine it being any better righ...
Posted by Mike Manley on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 05:07:00 PST

Halloween Party

Up early to clean the casa and make ready for the Hallween party tonite. But seems like many people won't be able to make it. Oh well.
Posted by Mike Manley on Sun, 30 Oct 2005 07:06:00 PST

Java script error my ass

Trying to get the hang of this thing...blogger sems easier.
Posted by Mike Manley on Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:26:00 PST