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Favorite Comics/Webcomics :
Tough. Very tough. For paper comics, I would have to say Bone, The
Tick, DP 7 and Disney comics (Uncle Scrooge rocks). Not to mention
the numerous and unpublished ash can comics my brother has done.
Pretty much everything on the Eyeskream website (quite a great
collection really!). Specifically I am taken with AT, White Hot
Lightning and Hellbound. And uh that weasel comic too. Or... was
that a ferret?
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Interests :
Sci Fi, space (particularly Mars conspiracy theory), movie
construction, philosophy, religion (conspiracy and ideology),
animation, classic art, logic, human reaction, comic strips (bring
back Calvin and Hobbes! Well, at least Opus is back), music (good
music), creating music and video games, video games, video games (Ever
Quest II will be my undoing!!!)
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Bio :
What? More? Ok, ok. I have been emersed in comic books, humor and
imagination. You guessed it, all stemming from my brother. I
sometimes wonder how I would have turned out if it not had been for
his intervention. Probably a farmer just like my Dad (thats not a
bad thing though, I love my Dad and what he has done for my siblings
and I). He introduced me to science fiction, big words and drawing
all at a very young age. I think I was the closest to really
understanding him and he was trying to get me to catch up as fast he
could. Some of it took, some of it didn't. When he left home and my
other sister left home, I was left behind to my own devices and
vices.
In high school I was the recluse. I spent much of my time ignoring
social situations ( I did not fit and was bullied a great deal in
elementary and early high school). I did this by escaping into my
imagination and notebooks. When I wasn't doodling I was writing some
strange story. I participated in the few scraps of art left in my
tiny home town of jocks and cowboys. Our drama department was ragged,
sparse and lacking at best. Our art department was worse. Needless
to say I excelled in art classes and finished all the available
courses long before I graduated. I long for it so much that I took a
class twice just to have use of the art room. Granted, that hour was
mostly spent standing outside my friend's house smoking cigarettes,
but I still passed with flying colors. I was also interested in film
along with my friend Josh and we convinced our english teacher to
create a film course specifically for us. Unfortunely some other
friends of ours saw it as a slack off opportunity and ruined it for
all of us. But, thats getting way off course. The point is, in my
high school art was the strangled undergrowth in a forrest of sports
and school spirit. Sigh...
After high school ( graduated as an honor student even while smoking
a lot of pot and a black belt in Tae Kwon Do even though I smoked a
lot of cigarettes), I randomly chose a college to continue my
education. I wish I had waited a year before doing so. It was a
miserable failed experiment. After only a couple of weeks and
continued pot smoking I ran home to Mom and Dad. Yup. Then darkness
came and I don't know how long I spent in basement limbo. I was
jobless, stoned and managed to read the first 3 books of The Dark
Tower series within a day and a half. I was royally f'd up. Acid,
alcohol, pot. Bleah. What a terrible time.
After a tearful conversation with Mom, I was offered to live with my
bro down in the Twin Cities. The was the defining moment of my life.
Granted it took me quite some time to over come my demons (pot
alcohol, not so much the alcohol...) I did do it. Most of it came
from a band that I formed with a co-worker. That was a trip. I miss
it. But, like all things, they eventually lose their glow.
So it all came full circle. Now my life is about drawing again. I
work on flash animations, The Rabid Rabbit (when I'm not slacking or
get Photoshop to work properly) and travelling caricatures. It's
become a relief, because I do feel like I've come back to the
begining where I really belong. I've quite drugs, quite smoking (4
months to the day baby!) and I've been with the same girl off and on
for the last 4 years. I think I'm doing OK for myself. There are
countless things I could still improve, but... doesn't everybody?
I'm just glad that I'm still alive and have the opportunity every
day to get it right.
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