I am an illustrator who aspires to drawing comic books.
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First love be comic books, closely followed by movies, literature, good tv, art, food, gym, video games.
Like minded people, who like minded people.
I like to believe that all music types have their good and their bad. On my iTunes i'm currently listening to David Bowie, Nina Simone, Biggie, Zero 7, Mark Mothersbaugh soundtracks, Jon Brion soundtracks, Beck, Nick Drake, Gorillaz, Stevie Wonder, Philip Glass, Air, ELO, Amy Winehouse, Zuco 103, Beethoven, Eric Benet, Rufus Wainwright, Clint Mansell, Sidestepper, Matt Berry, Cake, Mick Harvey and Serge Gainsbourg. They're all good.
Miyazaki, Kubrick, Anderson's (Wes and Paul Thomas), Hitchcock, Besson, Nolan, Jarmusch, Il Postino, Transformers - The Movie (80's), Brad Bird, Pixar, Ghibli, to name but a few.
Don't watch a huge amount of tv so some of these were seen on DVD. Still need a telly to watch'em, tho. The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Oz, I'm Alan Partridge, Brasseye, Father Ted, Nathan Barley, Blackadder, Marion And Geoff, Larry Sanders Show, League Of Gentlemen, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Snuffbox, Eastenders (against my will).
Albert Camus' The Outsider, Oscar Wilde's A Picture of Dorien Gray, Season Of Migration To The North by Tayeb Salir, My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok, English Passengers by Michael Kneale, The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier And Klay by Michael Chabon, Wonderboys by him too, Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, Orwell's 1984, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, WE3 and Seaguy by Grant Morrison, Promethea by Alan Moore, Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud, Judge Dredd The Complete Casefiles Vol 2, Bone by Jeff Smith, DC's New Frontier by Darwynn Cooke, Rocco Vargas by Daniel Torres.
In no particular order -Alex Toth, Andrew Loomis, Tatsuyuki Tanaka, Claire Wendling, Shane Glines, Gustav Klimt, Mike McMahon, Art Lozzi, Mike Mignola, Auguste Rodin, Daniel Torres, Alberto Breccia, Carl Larsson, Chris Ware, Eduardo Risso, Winsor McCay, Sergio Toppi, Paul Pope, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Hayao Miyazaki, David Mazzuchelli, Rick Leonardi, Norman Rockwell, Bill Watterson , Ashley Wood, George Herriman, Geoff Senior, Edvin Biukovic and Jeff Smith.