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Simon Williams

Comic artist, and idle of millions!

About Me


Verily, I did edit my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4 , to make it look so pretty.....
Hello, one and all!! My name is Simon Williams, aka Big Daddy Soul, aka the idle of millions!! Welcome to my humble little corner of MySpace... now, here's the part I hate: trying to think of something to write about myself which will make me sound interesting!! Anyways, here goes..... I'm a professional comic artist... proudly hailing from Wales, who also likes to sing every now and again!! I've been drawing comics professionally now since 2003, and my artwork has appeared in several publications- including Transformers, Transformers Beast Wars, The Incredible Hulk, Death's Head and Spider-man. I have also produced artwork for various other forms of Transformers-related media, such as dvds, toys and collectable merchandise. I hope someday to see my work in the pages of a US Marvel comic as well. However, that's as close to another country as I want to get (for now, anyways!)... Soulmania is quite content to stay running wild in little ol' Wales!
Oh yes.... I am also responsible for creating the funky madness that is known as the Discotronic Funk Commandos, the superhero team that is gathering all sorts of interest on the world wide web! You can check out two of their adventures, Lost In Music and Enter Metalhead at the Discotronic Funk Commandos section on my website, soulmaninc.co.uk (cheap plug!)
You can also come say hello to me at my deviant art site , or at www.comicspace.com/soulmaninc .
Once I achieve my plan of world domination, I shall tell all in my autobiography, From Idle... To Idol....
My artwork from the new
Death's Head trade paperback

My Interests

Hmmmm...... well, I'm a serious DVD whore. I have no shortage of films to watch. I also like wrestling (watching it, not actually doing it!) and surfing the net to the theme music of 'Hawaii Five-O'. Oh yes, and karaoke..... love to get up and have a sing song! Speaking of which, I am currently attempting to broaden my music skills by learning to play air guitar.

I'd like to meet:

Stan 'the man' Lee, Peter Cullen, Adam West, Lou Ferrigno..... ooo, I've got a lot of heroes - and I'd like to meet all of them!

Music:

Definately the Blues Brothers..... who got me into music in the first place. Elvis as well.... he'll always be the King! Also the Commitments, AC/DC.... heck, pretty much anything from ABBA and the Bee Gees to Kid Rock!! I love a lot of movie soundtracks as well.... especially John Barry's haunting score to Bruce Lee's Game Of Death, and John Williams' immortal Superman soundtrack. Oh yes, and gotta love the soundtrack to the animated 'Transformers: The Movie'!! However, the rumours that I draw to the tunes of William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and David Hasselhoff are NOT TRUE. Honest.

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Movies:



powered by frazy.comHulk, Transformers The Movie, X-Men 1-3, Batman Begins, Blues Brothers, Superman movies (not 4!), Spider-man 1+2, Fantastic Four, Blade 1-3, Anything starring the great Bruce Lee, Star Wars movies, Ultimate Avengers the Movie, The Commitments, An American Werewolf In London, Salem's Lot (original version!), Underworld 1 + 2 (Kate Beckinsale in black leather..... ;oP ), Nightmare On Elm Street films, All Universal B+W Horrors (Frankenstein, Wolf Man etc), King Kong (2005 version), Rocky movies

Television:

CSI (Vagas, New York and Miami), House, Transformers Animated (2007), WWE, Who Wants To Be A Superhero (only the original season though), The Incredible Hulk (70's), Batman (60's show), Doctor Who, Quantum Leap, The Sheild, Starsky And Hutch, Columbo, Prisoner, Transformers, Beast Wars Transformers, Batman Animated, Justice League, X-Men animated..... yep, I love my cartoons as well!!

Books:

Mostly comics/graphic novels/trade paperbacks, such as:
Incredible Hulk visionaries vol 1-3 by Peter David, Todd McFarlane, Jeff Purves
The Ultimates by Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch
Transformers: Fallen Angel, Prey and Legacy Of Unicron by Simon Furman, Geoff Senior and co.
Death's Head - Volume 1 by Simon Furman, Geoff Senior, Bryan Hitch, Liam Sharp, Lee Sullivan (and featuring a piece of artwork by my good self as well!)
Death's Head: The Body In Question by Simon Furman and Geoff Senior
Doomlord - The Deathlords Of Nox by Alan Grant
Essential Hulk volumes 1-4... especially the last two volumes, featuring classic Roy Thomas and Herb Trimpe Hulk!
Essential Defenders volumes 1+2 by Roy Thomas, Len Wein, Steve Englehart, Sal Buscema and co
Essential Tomb Of Dracula 1-3 by Marv Wolfman, Gene Colan and Tom Palmer
Essential Werewolf By Night by Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway, Mike Ploog etc
Spectacular Spider-man - Night Of The Goblin - because it features artwork by me, with my bruv Jason Cardy on colours! Also featuring the talents of good friends David Roach and Dylan Teague
Spider-man - Saga Of The Black Costume by Tom DeFalco, Ron Frenz, Joe Rubinstein etc
Spider-man - Kraven's Last Hunt by J.M.DeMattis and Mike Zeck
Spider-man Vs Venom by David Micheline and Todd McFarlane
Iron Man - Armour Wars by David Micheline, Mark Bright and Bob Layton
Captain America - War and Rememberance by Roger Stern, John Byrne and Joe Rubinstein
Essential X-Men vol 1+2 by Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum and John Byrne
Thor Visionaries - Walt Simonson vol 1-3
Batman - The Killing Joke by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland
Batman - The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
Judge Dredd - Dredd vs Death by John Wagner, Alan Grant and Brian Bolland
Judge Dredd - Cry Of The Werewolf by Wagner, Grant and Steve Dillon
The Savage Dragon Archives by Erik Larsen
Spawn collections vol. 1 + 2 by Todd McFarlane

Heroes:

First off.... my mom and dad, who are quite simply the greatest people I have ever, and WILL ever know :o)
Bruce Lee...... I can't put into words how much I admire this legend.
Stan Lee..... for creating Marvel comics. 'Nuff Said true believer!
Peter Cullen and Frank Welker.... for the childhood memories, which I will relive again this summer.
Comic characters: The Hulk, Optimus Prime, Wolverine, The Thing, Death's Head, Spider-man, Captain America, Thor, Superman, Batman, Iron Man (pre-Civil War), Judge Dredd, The Beast, Daredevil, Doomlord, Spawn, Savage Dragon..... also a huge fan of classic UK 'funny comics' characters as well, such as Desperate Dan, Beryl The Peril, Bananaman, Buster..... heck, too many to mention!!
Favourite Comic Creators/Influences: Stan lee, Jack Kirby, Sal Buscema, John Buscema, Pablo Marcos, John Romita Snr & Jnr, Bob Layton, Alfredo Alcala, Ernie Chua/Chan, John Byrne, Dale Keown, Geoff Senior, Lee Sullivan, Simon Furman, Liam Sharp, Todd McFarlane, Erik Larsen, Peter David, Jose Garcia Lopez, Bruce Timm, Ed McGuiness, Guido Guidi, Alex Ross, Jeff Scott Campbell, Neal Adams, Herb Trimpe, Walt Simonson, Art Adams, Dave Cockrum, George Perez, Jim Aparo, Alan Davis. And of course... Jason Cardy and Kat Nicholson. Love you guys!

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Posted by Simon Williams on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:23:00 PST

New Transformers Artwork

Sorry for the lack of updates lately. It's been a busy time for me, what with working two jobs, and I've not had the chance to spend as much time on here as I'd like.Anyways, I'd just like to let you ...
Posted by Simon Williams on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:52:00 PST

Soulmania vs Cupid

Yep, stupid little curly haired crumb bum didn't help me out AGAIN this year... so I'm throwing in the gauntlet. You and me Cupid.... mano e mano.Soulmania's gonna run wild, brotha.....  I'm goin...
Posted by Simon Williams on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:54:00 PST

Death's Head

Just thought you guys may get a kick out of seeing this... it's my artwork from Panini Book's new Death's Head trade paperback:Inks by David A Roach, and colours by James Offredi. Big thanks to Brady...
Posted by Simon Williams on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:57:00 PST

Dave Cockrum.... RIP

As reported at Newsarama.com:According to several sources, legendary X-Men and comic book artist Dave Cockrum passed away in his sleep last night, his death a result of diabetes and its resultant comp...
Posted by Simon Williams on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 03:26:00 PST

Comic book Signing - Cardiff, 21st October.

I was fortunate to be part of a comic book signing yesterday at The Comic Guru comic book store in Cardiff (owned by my good friend Kristian Barry), where I met fellow comic book artist Sean Phillips....
Posted by Simon Williams on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 05:31:00 PST

Big Daddy Soul...... movie star?

Big Daddy Soul...... movie star?Well, not yet!!!Whilst studying at University, I had the opportunity to make a small film as part of my media elective course. As a result.... I made a short 20 minute ...
Posted by Simon Williams on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:23:00 PST

Re: soulmaninc.co.uk. PLEASE READ!!!

Well y'know something, Soulmaniacs......... Well, that's the tagline you will usually get if you go to my ever lovin' online comic-art portfolio at soulmaninc.co.uk..... and chances are if you have cl...
Posted by Simon Williams on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 06:01:00 PST

Bleegghh.......

Not feeling so hot tonight. Haven't felt very well all day..... limbs are achy, and I feel as weak as a very weak kitten. So it's safe to say that I'm coming down with the dreaded lurgy. Whoopie. To m...
Posted by Simon Williams on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 04:06:00 PST

The Discotronic Funk Commandos.... bulletin into a blog!

Is it a blog? Is it a bulletin? Actually, it's a bit of both! I'm currently working on getting my characters, the Discotronic Funk Commandos... in print for the very first time. Hopefully.... the comi...
Posted by Simon Williams on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:14:00 PST