Liam Sharp - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm an artist, writer, editor, publisher, sometime singer-songwriter, and small-time film-maker. (Yeah, I know, but life's short! Got to pack it all in!)

Most stuff about me you can get here:

http://www.mamtor.com/

I'm married to Christina, have 3 kids, Matylda, Lorcan and Jeff, and cat, Molly.

I'm a very cynical agnostic, more a de facto atheist, with liberal - some would call idealistic - views. (So what's wrong with idealistic? Read my blog! I'm not an idiot!)

I love honest, creative and diverse people who have passion (just don't mistake me for a hippy!)

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My Interests

Art, literature, music, movies, the odd pint or six, and an occational smoke.

I'd like to meet:

Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, David Bowie, Charles Satchi (I can do that. G'i's a job, or buy my art!) Richard Dawkins, Derren Brown, Christopher Hitchens, M.John Harrison, and open-minded folk with a lively honest intellect.

Music:

Primarily I'm a rock guy, but I like my indie stuff from the New York scene in particular, and a very little bit of classical - but it gives me a headache after a while. Not a clue why!

Movies:

Big movie fan. Too many to say - but not big on wealthy middle-class US comedies where everybody has a great job and looks hot.

Television:

Oh man, I change all the time - it's down to mood! I like historical docs, and stuff on string theory or the unified theory. I HATE soap operas. I like music shows, and comedy.

Books:

Here's my top 5, in no particular order:3. Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "one Hundred Years of Solitude". 5. China Mi?ville's "The Scar". 2. Will Self's "Great Apes". 1. M. John Harrison's "Light". 4. Richard Adam's "Shardik".

Heroes:

Don Lawrence, M.John Harrison, China Mi?ville, Richard Corben, Moebius, Phillippe Druillet, Michaelangelo, Christina McCormack and Roger and Linda Sharp.

My Blog

WIZARD WORLD PHILLY CON!

Well, looks like this'll be my trip to the states this year - the Wizard World Philly con!Drop by and say hello if you're going. I'll have a table in artists alley! :)Till then!Liam....
Posted by Liam Sharp on Mon, 19 May 2008 07:40:00 PST

BRISTOL COMIC EXPO

Every year there's a gathering of the unlikely-minded, linked only by the fact that an amount of their readies has been apportioned to the purchase of sequential narratives rendered in image and word ...
Posted by Liam Sharp on Tue, 06 May 2008 07:25:00 PST

ANOTHER REASON WHY I LOVE CHRIS WESTON

http://chrisweston. blogspot. com/Cheers Chris.The best present you could ever have given me. Seriously, it completely choked me up.Take care,Liam.
Posted by Liam Sharp on Fri, 02 May 2008 03:07:00 PST

LOSING YOUR WAY

I just read a line in a novel by M. John Harrison - an amazing and under-rated author of literate, clever and progressive science fiction and fantasy. It's from his sequel to "Light", "Nova Swing": "P...
Posted by Liam Sharp on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:01:00 PST

TIME OUT magazine to feature new comic!

OK, THIS is BIG news for us - Mam Tor Publishing Ltd. has collaborated with Mother (London) Advertising Ltd. to produce a 16 page quarterly comic inside the London edition of "Time Out" magazine (Marc...
Posted by Liam Sharp on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:55:00 PST

IT CAME FROM DARKMOOR...

My old colleague Lew Stringer sent me this link: IT CAME FROM DARKMOOR...To the writer - thank you so much. Great blog and kind words. I'm glad you grew to love it. :)Take care,Liam....
Posted by Liam Sharp on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:35:00 PST

Lists, favourites, and how we carve ourselves in stone

I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and the more I ponder it, the less like a good idea it seems. What's that, you ask vaguely with a mildly distracted air and an arched eyebrow in my general...
Posted by Liam Sharp on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:06:00 PST

METALLIC-UH!

I LOVE Metallica, but this is one of the funniest things I've seen in ages...Pure genius. :)Enjoy! ...
Posted by Liam Sharp on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:37:00 PST

THE GOLDEN COMPASS

OK, following my recent comments re. The Golden Compass, I thought I'd actually see what the feeling was more generally from reviewers, and what I've found, I think, is that there's a myth being perpe...
Posted by Liam Sharp on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:44:00 PST

Sam Harris, Rabbi David Wolpe debate.

I love the rationalism Sam Harris brings with him. It's not forced or preachy.I share his frustration at being unable to comprehend blind acceptance of the unprovable, something I qualify by adding t...
Posted by Liam Sharp on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:08:00 PST