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Eric Powell

I draw pretty pictures of horrible things and write funny words on top of them... they pay me for it

About Me

I make The Goon funny books for Dark Horse Comics. I draw pretty pictures of horrible things and write funny words on top of them and they pay me for it. WWW.THEGOON.COM
Don't... uh... don't bother me. I-I'm thinking.

My Interests

Music, Film, Comics, My Kids, My Friends, Breakfast Cereal, and trying to find the point of half the stupid things I do.

I'd like to meet:

An affordable accountant.

Music:

Gogol Bordello, Southern Culture on the Skids, Tom Waits, The Ramones, Pigface, Skinny Puppy, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, K.M.F.D.M., Led Zepplin, Nick Cave, Patsy Cline, The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Creatures, Slayer, The Sounds, The White Stripes, Rob Zombie, The Beastie Boys, Black Flag, The Dead Kennedys, Black Eyed Peas, The Clash, Black Sabbath, The Misfits, David Bowie, Depeche Mode, Revolting Cocks, Bjork, Billie Holiday, Danzig, Devo, Duran Duran, Fugazi, Gaye Bykers on Acid, Godflesh, Iggy Pop, Gorillaz, Iron Maiden, James Brown, Killing Joke, L7, Ministry, Operation Ivy, Pink Floyd, The Psychodelic furs, Rammstein, Roy Orbison, ect, ect, ect.

Movies:

Lawrence of Arabia, Evil Dead 2, To Kill a Mocking bird, The Shawshank Redemption, Planet of the Apes, The Thing, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Exorcist, Spinal Tap, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Tenant, Pappillon, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Man Who Would Be King, The Godfather 1 and 2, The Legend of Boggy Creek, O Brother Where Art Thou, Duck Soup, Animal Crackers, Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, Zulu, Jaws, Ed Wood, An American Werewolf in London, The Changeling, Casablanca, Night of the Hunter, ect, ect, ect.

Television:

The Office, Deadwood, Reno-911, The Sara Silverman Program, My Name is Earl, 30 Roc, and reruns of Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Twilight Zone, and the Andy Griffith Show.

Books:

Richard Matheson, Arthur C. Clarke, H.G. Wells, Mark Twain, Lovecraft and good comics. Lots and lots of audio books while I'm working. But as some people have pointed out, that's not really reading. Well, I prefer to think of it as "creative listening".

Heroes:

Anyone who is smart enough to know how stupid they are.

My Blog

Eric Powell painted Munny charity auction

Atlanta Comics Expo raises "Munny" for RIF (Reading is Fundamental).An extremely talented and eclectic group of artists banded together at Atlanta Comics Expo (ACE) this past February 8-10th in supp...
Posted by Eric Powell on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:05:00 PST

NASHVILLE ROLLERGIRLS: MARDI BRAWL, Feb 16th


Posted by Eric Powell on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:00:00 PST

Dr. Sketchy’s " Nashville, January 19th

A word to you Nashville area artists from Dr. Sketchy's about the January 19th event. For More info, Check out their myspace page. http://www.myspace.com/drsketchysnashville -EricP.S.- We'll be givi...
Posted by Eric Powell on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:59:00 PST

GOON YEAR " MYSPACE DH PRESENTS THE GOON

The Legacy continues with The Goon: Chinatown, The Goon: Fancy Pants Volume 2, Myspace Dark Horse Presents the Goon, plus 2x The Goon in 2008! Dark Horse is very proud to present the first origi...
Posted by Eric Powell on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:15:00 PST

Blair Butler reviews Chinatown on Attack of the Show

Blair Butler gives Chinatown a rave review on G4's Attack of the Show. Check out the web address below. It's a new experience for me to get praise from a hot chick. Usually it's more along the lines o...
Posted by Eric Powell on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:15:00 PST

The Goon on ER?

On an episode of ER, I think a couple of years ago, there was a kid reading a copy of the Goon. A doctor comes up to him and says, "I didn't know you liked the Goon." And the kid says, "They were out ...
Posted by Eric Powell on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:40:00 PST

Mignola & Davis Christmas story

Mike Mignola and Guy Davis have a great Christmas strip on Myspace Dark Horse Presents. Check it out-http://www.myspace.com/darkhorsepresents
Posted by Eric Powell on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:48:00 PST

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Hope everybody has a good one!
Posted by Eric Powell on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 05:14:00 PST

THE GOON 20 PREVIEW

The series goes monthly in January with new colorist Dave Stewart....
Posted by Eric Powell on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:46:00 PST

Santa Rampage ’07

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, ...
Posted by Eric Powell on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:36:00 PST