Liam Kemp - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I work in a mom & pop toy store and write comics. I have self-published three comic books and am currently working on getting picked up by a publisher.For more info:or visit my livejournalHere's the cover to my current comic which can be purchased on our website:The second issue is currently in production and should be ready sometime this fall.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

comics, small press comics, publishing, Gloomcookie, Nightmares and Fairy Tales, Fatalysia, Lenore, Small Press Expo, SPX, felines, feeding squirrels, toys, New York

Music:

Lisa Gerard, Dead Can Dance, The Cure, New Order, Qntal, The Birthday Massacre, Depeche Mode, Tom Waits, Cruxshadows, Switchblade Symphony, Diamanda Galas, Rasputina, Nina Hagen, Klaus Nomi, Joy Division, Etta James, Iggy Pop, Danny Elfman, Skinny Puppy, Computorgirl, Philip Glass, She Wants Revenge, Cranes, The Red Paintings, Sxip Shirey, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Lydia Lunch

Movies:

Begotten, Troma films, Mr. T: Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool, Godzilla, Buttcrack, Evil Dead 2, X-Men 2, La Belle et la Bete, Bela Lugosi Meets A Brooklyn Gorilla, Glen or Glenda?, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Sin City, Ghost World, Clerks, American Splendor, A History of Violence, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Mitchell, Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters, Batman Begins, Kung Fu Hustle, The Man Who Laughs, Un Chien Andalou, Pan's Labyrinth, Fire and Ice, Delicatessen, Sicko

Television:

Robot Chicken, The Boondocks, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Morel Orel, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Teen Titans, Justice League, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Tranzor Z, Mazinger Z, Firefly, Wonder Woman, Batman: The Animated Series, Doctor Who, The Tick, [adult swim], Carnivale, Greg the Bunny, Animal Planet, History Channel, Dirty Jobs, Disinformation, Angel, Jack of All Trades, Adventures of Pete and Pete, Invader Zim, Metalocalypse, Tom Goes To The Mayor, South Park, The Simpsons, Star Blazers, Saul of the Mole Men

Books:

Dead Sea Scrolls, Gnostic gospels, Pseudepigrapha, things written by Roald Dahl, Elmore Leonard, and C.S. Lewis, lots of comics

Heroes:

Rosa Parks, Daredevil, Brian Michael Bendis, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Alex Maleev, Alex Ross, Harvey Pekar, Serena Valentino, Usagi Yojimbo, Uatu the Watcher, Shazam, Elias Merhige, Ralph Snart, Mr. T, Grant Morrison, Roman Dirge, Alex Toth, Paul Dini, Bruce Timm, Mojo Nixon, Ed Wood, Criswell

My Blog

Fatalysia 2 at printer

As stated in the heading, the second issue of Fatalysia went to the printer today. I should have it on hand late next week, just in time for the Small Press Expo. It has a new story illustrated by U...
Posted by Liam Kemp on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:56:00 PST

Iron Man and Dark Knight images

For those interested, I found some screen cap images from the Iron Man movie trailer.While I'm at it, here are some from The Dark Knight. ...
Posted by Liam Kemp on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:40:00 PST

because I cant wait until Halloween to look like a jackhole

If anybody cares, here are a few pictures of the current status of my Doctor Who costume. I still need to find a decent vest and wig, but I'm almost there. At this point, I look kind of like the Eig...
Posted by Liam Kemp on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:43:00 PST

drugs and their vocal canine objectors

Does anyone else find it ironic that a PSA that just aired depicted a dog verbally requesting that his owner, a young marijuana-afflicted lass named Lindsay (okay, that's ironic too), cut out the drug...
Posted by Liam Kemp on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:26:00 PST

grrr...

Smegging Photobucket. They're apparently allowing little banner ads to float right over the "submit" button where you need to click to upload new pictures from your hard drive. What's next, injectin...
Posted by Liam Kemp on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:37:00 PST

fair

My girlfriend unit and I went to the fair today and saw lots of goats, sheep, chickens, and fancy bunnies. We also ran across some kind of toilet art craft fair, which, given my juvenile sense of hum...
Posted by Liam Kemp on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:17:00 PST

miscellany

This is a lot of random nonsense, but whatever.*I admit to feeling a little dirty for coincidentally having the TV on the SciFi Channel every Wednesday night when Stan Lee's series Who Wants To Be A S...
Posted by Liam Kemp on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 06:47:00 PST

lifes minor frustrations

It's so hard to find anyone on myspace claiming to be Max Headroom or Yakov Smirnoff who's actually logged in since 2004 or so. I know they're imposters and all, but I'd like to at least feel like Ma...
Posted by Liam Kemp on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:14:00 PST

where I've been

Here's a quick update on things that have gone on while I wasn't in the mood for blogging:Kit and I went to New York for MOCCA. I got to meet people like Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, and Alison Bechdel. ...
Posted by Liam Kemp on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:51:00 PST

old house

I dreamed my parents, sister, and I moved into a rickety old house in the middle of nowhere. I think we were an hour or so from the town in which I grew up. The house was falling apart and still had...
Posted by Liam Kemp on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:48:00 PST