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The Great Garloo

Creativity is the product of boundaries, not freedom. With absolute freedom, there is no need for cr

About Me

A documententation of my artistic progress (it might seem slow going) -- http://garyclair.blogspot.com

My Interests

Day-Dreaming, Cartooning, Drawing, Illustration, Painting, Humor, Art books, Sculpting, Stop-motion Animation, Puppets, Muppets, Animation, Digital Art, Old Horror Movies, Road Trips, Hiking, Lunch with friends

I'd like to meet:

Other Cartoonists, Illustrators, Creative Types, Fun, or Funny People.

Music:

Louis Armstrong, Bjork, Beethoven, The Afghan Whigs, Nina Simone, Bad Brains, Tom Waits, Sisters of Mercy, Dead Can Dance, Leonard Cohen, Dead Kennedys, Pink Floyd, Joy Division, The Beatles, Ministry, Led Zepplin, Jimmy Hendrix, Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Fishbone, Parliment Funkadelic, I can find something I like in every genre.. Anything from backwater banjo to Beethoven to hardcore punk.

Movies:

Ikiru, Akira, Amalie, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, The Dark Crystal, Crumb, Shawshank, Indiana Jones, Clerks, The Big Lebowski, Dumb and Dumber, Roger Rabbit, Wallace and Gromit, Fearless Vampire Killers, Anything with Monsters, Pirates, Aliens, Robots, Voodoo, Samurais or Karate... i'll watch it!

Television:

In an attempt to become a better artist, I got rid of TV. Ohhh.. how I miss it!

Books:

The God Delusion, Sex Money Kiss, Against All Enemies, A Man Without a Country, The Illusion of Life, Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, Making Comics, ..but my favorite books are "art of" or "making of" books.

Heroes:

My heroes are artists who are making a living doing their own thing without working for "the man."

My Blog

The TSA stole my fucking shaver!!

I got back on Wednesday from being in Michigan for a month...(visual of Michigan during that time)I apologize for making a short story long.. When I left LA, I passed the skycaps at the airport, and d...
Posted by The Great Garloo on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:08:00 PST

Hi Skoo Diplo' maw

This is funny to anyone who knew me in High School.. You paid attention during 97% of high school! 85-100%  You must be an autodidact, because American high schools don't get scores that high!&n...
Posted by The Great Garloo on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:38:00 PST