Victorian mourning, scary antiques, Brothers Quay, sideshow, cemeteries, graveyards, taphophiles, bleeding hearts, old anatomy charts, Daguerreotype, gaslight, cabinet photos, cloth dolls, stump dolls, Edward Gorey, forensic science, dime museums, tombstone art, Joel-Peter Witkin, Victorian London, Dickens, 1888, 1692, Salem witchcraft, macabre, gallows humor, fortune tellers, morbidity, absinthe, Victorian drugs, phlebotomy, Edgar A. Poe, ravens, memento mori, alchemy, curio cabinets, poison labels & bottles, Halloween, Ireland, skeletons, St. vitus, el diablo, vampires, Bell Witch, coffins, coffin furniture, strange exhibits, death, corpse, grave, funeral, shroud, necropolis, morgue, postmortem, skull and bones, weepers, penny dreadful, nightmare, tattoo flash, handmade books, Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, Mercy Brown, Queen Victoria, Robert Johnson, old apothecary, mummies, superstitions, Laudanum, Opium, Victorian parlors, Victorian Lowbrow,,.
People just like YOU!
Old Bluegrass, Bill Monroe, Robert Johnson, Southern Gothic Delta Blues, Bauhaus, Peter Murphy, Brian Eno, Roxy Music, Robert Fripp, Phil Manzanera, King Crimson, Adrian Belew, Devo, The Pogues, Queen, Yello, Stanley Brothers, Ralph Stanley, Dolly Parton, The Swans, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Tones on Tail, David Bowie, The Damned, Joy Division, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Throbbing Gristle, Skinny Puppy, The Onion Eaters, Sex Pistols, Queen, Dixie Chicks, Bobby Darin, Roger Miller, Nirvana
I don't watch many movies.
I just don't watch a whole lot of TV.
All books Victorian and Death related. Charles Dickens, Christine Quigley, Joel-Peter Witkin, Henry Miller, Poe, Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Graveyard Poets, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Sylvia Plath, William S. Burroughs, Jesse Bernstein, Wilum Pugmire.
My Inspirations:
Edward Gorey, R. Crumb, Thomas Nast, William Hogarth, J.J. Grandville, John Tenniel, Thomas Rowlandson, James Gillray, Wassily Kandinsky, B. Kliban, School of Bauhaus, Max Ernst, Paul Klee, Eustace-Hyacinthe Langlois, Goya, Posada, Joseph Keppler, Félix Nadar, Diane Arbus, the Dadaist, Surrealist and Situationist.
I am inspired by anyone who hand-draws illustrations using real pen-and-ink and hand-cutting and pasting collage without the use of a computer. Old School all the way.
Also, I absolutely despise anything that is digital printing and the very pretentious Giclee. "Giclee" (zhee-clay) is basically digital printing. I am a purist and use only offset printing or screen-printing for all my posters.