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Douglas

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About Me


Douglas Noble is the creator of the comic Strip For Me, a modern melange of unfriendly romance and geographic terrorism. Strip For Me is a sometimes anthology that provides the entertainment you've been looking for all these years.

You can look at the website at www.strip-for-me.com

You're all invited over to the website to read some comics, as is the fashion these days.

My Interests

What is this? A job application? OK, interests include (but aren't limited to) comics, cinema, literature, art, sculpture, architecture, Lambada - the forbidden dance, bullfighting, human taxidermy, photography, competitive sleeping, amateur sleeping, sleeping, obsession, modelling a life size Klaus Kinski out of matches, animating my Klaus Kinski with unholy life, keeping my Klaus Kinski away from open flame, avoiding the icy hand of death, raising a tiny army, throwing things away, accumulating books, attacking tiny countries, the usual, you know?

I'd like to meet:

"Bring out the freaks: the strange, the curious... Now I want you all to gather in as close as you possibly can..."

Music:

The Afghan Whigs, American Music Club, Barry White, Beach Boys, Beastie Boys, Beck, Billie Holiday, Billy Bragg, Bis, The Bonzo Dog Doodah Band, Cars Can be Blue, Dionne Warwick, The Doors, Elvis Presley, Helen Love, Holly Golightly, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Iron & Wine, Leonard Cohen, Morphine, Neko Case, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Will Oldham, Pixies, Pizzicato 5, The Skullening, Sly and the Family Stone, Scot Walker, (smog), Stina Nordenstam, The Detroit Cobras, The Sundays, The Tindersticks, Tom Waits, The White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Hank Williams,

Movies:

David Lynch, Ingmar Bergman, Werner Herzog, Peter Greenaway, Stanley Kubrick, Roger Corman, Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Linklater, Brian de Palma, Wes Anderson, Jim Jarmusch, John Waters, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Jan Svankmejer, Robert Altman, Noel Ebb, The Marx Brothers, Tod Browning, Hal Hartly

Television:

Heimat, Twin Peaks, MST3K, Carnivale, The Mighty Boosh, Kids in the Hall, League of Gentlemen, I, Claudius, Arrested Development

Books:

JG Ballard, Flannery O'Connor, Eddie Campbell, William Burroughs, Terry Southern, Mickey Spillane, Iain Sinclair, Harry Crews, Paul Auster, Grant Morrison, Evan Dorkin, Alan Moore, Peter Milligan, Paul Pope, Jamie Delano

Heroes:

When I get stuck in life - I always ask myself the same simple question: "What would Klaus Kinski do?"

My Blog

Strip For Me 25: A Man of Certain Talents

Issue 25 of Strip For Me contains the story A Man of Certain Talents, and it’s now available to buy. A man must complete a number of mysterious actions on behalf of an equally mysterious employe...
Posted by Douglas on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:44:00 PST

Giant-Size Avengers Special

Of course, I should have mentioned this last week, when it came out, but better comics shops should still have copies in stock.  I hear it's selling out everywhere, so you may want to hurry....
Posted by Douglas on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:30:00 PST

Do you follow The Rule of Death?

I thought I would take the opportunity to direct all of you lovely people over to serializer.net, which hosts The Rule of Death, an entertainment devised by Mr Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and myself. ...
Posted by Douglas on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 05:38:00 PST

Live Static's done!

Hello folks.Today saw the completion of Live Static, the comic that I've been putting up on my website since the start of the year.  I'm pleased that I managed to make it to the end of the story,...
Posted by Douglas on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:00:00 PST

New Comics, and Caption

As you may or may not be aware, this weekend past was Caption, the small press comics convention, which also happens to be the longest running convention in the UK right about now.  Anyway, this ...
Posted by Douglas on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 04:57:00 PST

MICKEY SPILLANE 1918 - 2006

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Posted by Douglas on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:14:00 PST

Beating Ploughshares into Swords

The new bit picture that I added tonight is a remix of the original art of "Let's Not Listen", a story that eventually became part of the bigger Lotte story The Space Between Words that ran in SFM18.&...
Posted by Douglas on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 02:15:00 PST

Why don't you buy what you should have bought?

In a classic move, I've just realised that though the newest issues of Strip For Me (19 & 20) were all finished and read for the Thing back in March, I hadn't actually got around to putting the co...
Posted by Douglas on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 09:22:00 PST