Estelle the Big Pink Dragon profile picture

Estelle the Big Pink Dragon

that gifted looser...

About Me

Well i'm Estelle Valls de Gomis, a French fantastic genre writer (a few books published, fiction and essays, short-stories and articles, both amateurly and professionally) and illustrator mainly, I'm also a crappy (or not ;)) photographer and an amateur web/graphic designer... My styles range from pin-up art to Art Nouveau, and include manga, and children's books/fairytale art, as well as photography.
I'm sorry I have to state that here, but that's the rules : My illustrations are copyright protected and not freely usable unless you get expressed written permission from me
Feel free to check my website(s) :

I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

literature (fantastic especially), comics, illustrations and art of any kind (as long as I enjoy viewing it), vampires, mangas, super-heroes, pin-ups, eighteenth and nineteenth century, movies, asian ball-jointed dolls, art nouveau, everything creative, artistic, elegant, wrestling (who said it's all paradoxical , ;))... many things in fact, but basically those ones. And I love animals and nature, all that is beautiful and not 'man-made'.

I'd like to meet:


Well, friends, readers, artists, pin-ups, soulful and honest people who are not ashamed or afraid to stay true to what they are and to others, probably people I admire, and i'm also here for networking... basically I joined MySpace because my pin-up friends were here and recently some of my writers and readers friends joined so :)
Otherwise there's not much to say about me : I'm a nice friendly person, naivety and patience are both my best assets and my worst flaws. I am a reliable friend, I will bear many things for a very long time, but once my legendary patience wears thin, I estrange myself from whoever pushed it too far.Do NOT waste your time with me if you're only here for dating, cybering or any dirty stuff : I'm NOT interested.
Same thing if you have a profile that says nothing about you ! (apart from the first person in my list, but hey, I know him in person ^_^) Thank you in advance for understanding this.
and yes, if you request an add from me and I accept it, you can (you must ! ;)) thank me for the add (as I will thank people who positively answer my requests) ! I'd appreciate it :)

Music:

The Doors (Morrison era), the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Elvis Presley, Lou Reed, INXS (Hutchence era), Sly Stone, Iggy Pop, The Stray Cats, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, I have a weakness for Janis Joplin as well, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin, Otis Redding, on the whole too many bands, musicians and artists to list, most from the 50s-80s era but also Mozart, Bach, Wagner...

Movies:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Fight Club, American Psycho, Les Grandes vacances, Hibernatus, Dracula (Lugosi's and Lee's + Coppola's), Ed Wood, Reservoir Dogs, The Lord of the Rings, Wild at heart, Willard, Easy Rider, HWY An American Pastoral, Enter the Dragon, The Prestige, Back to the Future, Oscar (with Louis de Funes even though I saw Stallone's version ^_^), basically anything with Louis De Funes, anything with Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, anything with Jim Carrey and anything with Ben Stiller, Me myself and Irene, Dumb and Dumber, Living in Oblivion, Meet the Fockers, Madame Satan, the first Scream, a few horror movies too, Maniac (hehehe did you notice that the guy in that movie also starred in Rocky I & II ? ^_^)... Borat... so many films in general that i can't even list them all... Damn ! I had forgotten my ultimate favorite movie 'My name is Nobody' !!! and most Spaghetti Westerns (I think Lee Van Cleef would have made a fabulous Count Dracula)! I also forgot to list a great one : The Big Lebowski.

Television:

Everybody hates Chris, Seinfeld, Sex and the City, The Persuaders, Stupid Invaders (Les Zinzins de l'Espace), Oggy et les cafards, Ulysse 31, Goldorak, Il était une fois l'homme (that was a cartoon from when I was a kid), Happy Days, Married w/ children, Alf, Lost, Captain Harlock, 24, The Shield, The Benny Hill Show, The Muppet Show, That 70's Show, Kaamelott (a French series), CSI (anywhere), Will & Grace, Prison Break, Off Centre (what a fantastic series that was), Heroes, Day Break, anything WWE (especially if it has Matt Hardy and Shawn Michaels in it but I do dig most wrestlers and divas big time), Dexter, Californication... feel like I forget a few but there's a lot to list here again

Books:

many, many books (including... no... especially mines ;))Some of the writers I am into : Bram Stoker, Charles Bukowski, Colette, Oscar Wilde, Jean Lorrain, Alexandre Dumas (père), Le Fanu, Théophile Gautier, Maupassant, Léa Silhol, Bret Easton Ellis, Stephen King, Jim Morrison, some books by Viggo Mortensen, and too many books by too many writers on too many of my bookshelves

Heroes:

mmm... Jim Morrison, Wolverine, Dracula (apart from everyday life heroes from my real life i mean :) Mom, Dad, Eric, my grandmoms and grandpops - late or living, my late mouse and my wonderful dog ^_^, my friends), Christopher Reeve ...and I have to say I admire anyone who is able to stay kind, generous and nice to others, loyal, helpful and full of hope, in this world of bastards...

My Blog

as easy as ABC ? (English + français)

(version française plus bas ^_^) As you all know, life is never easy. As you all know, among other interests, I dig pin-ups and wrestlers. As you all know, I'm an everyday life "wrestler" (with highs...
Posted by Estelle the Big Pink Dragon on Tue, 06 May 2008 10:37:00 PST

ebay : unique book copy + unique prints / exemplaires uniques 1 livre et 8 repros

(post en français plus bas :)) So, for once a little "buy me, buy me, buy me" blog : Le Calepin Jaune Editions is auctioning a unique copy of one of my books, Les Gentlemen de l'Etrange : on sati...
Posted by Estelle the Big Pink Dragon on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:45:00 PST

some illustration-writing news / quelques news illustration et écriture

(English version below) Bon j'ai pensé qu'il était temps pour de nouvelles illustrations inédites, donc en voici une que j'ai mis en avatar et qui s'appelle "Alice s'ennuie". Du coup j'ai fait une pet...
Posted by Estelle the Big Pink Dragon on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:57:00 PST

Un peu de pub pour d’autres auteurs et éditeurs ^_^

Alors je voulais vous signaler une parution dont Nicolas Liau m'a fait part et qui pourra intéresser les amateurs de polar : L'ouvrage s'intitule Pas plus d'importance que ça, et ça sort chez&nbs...
Posted by Estelle the Big Pink Dragon on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:58:00 PST

a little break / un petit break

ok, so since my nerves and myself are undergoing an overdose of bearing rather unbearable things : too much work, no money and all that which does not depend on myself alone and that I'm obl...
Posted by Estelle the Big Pink Dragon on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 04:46:00 PST

Horizon Motel... and the golden louse / et le pou doré

Oh yeah my friends, this is my new book, it's happening here : http://www.editions.lecalepinjaune.com/ouvragesLCJeditions_S epias_HorizonMotelEngl.htm (for those of you who wished to read some of my te...
Posted by Estelle the Big Pink Dragon on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:48:00 PST

too busy O_o / trop de boulot O_o

just to let you know i'll be answering messages very soon but at the mo I can't even cope with all the things I have to do, I hope anyway to get a bit of spare time before the end of the... centu...
Posted by Estelle the Big Pink Dragon on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:00:00 PST

estelspinups.net revamped + fanart of my stuff + cool links

I had been thinking of it for some time since I was not fully satisfied with the latest version of my pin-up site, so yesterday I spent all day revamping my pin-up art website, and I guess it was wort...
Posted by Estelle the Big Pink Dragon on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 05:44:00 PST

yeaaaaaaah I repaired my comp ! / ouaaiiiiiiiiis j'ai réparé mon ordi !

it was the power supply unit, yesterday I smelled carefully every part of the comp, and the power unit smelled of burnt plastic, so I changed it this morning and my comp works anew, and even better I ...
Posted by Estelle the Big Pink Dragon on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:04:00 PST

My computer burnt O_o / Mon ordi a cramé O_o

I was answering an e-mail when suddenly the comp stopped with a strange smell of burnt plastic... O_o So now I'm using another computer but I wont be able to be online much until the other is fixed or...
Posted by Estelle the Big Pink Dragon on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:39:00 PST