Same interests I've had since I was a pre-teen: music, girls and comics, but not always in that order. Oh, and Guinness beer, an interest I didn't have as a pre-teen but should have. Also, ninjas.
Müzik
It's the rare band that falls into the Top 40 that I can actually tolerate, but most anything else will work for me. Of interest all the time are Motorhead, Foo Fighters, Wilco, Tito & Tarantula, Afghan Whigs, Ryan Adams, Mike Peters, Giant Sand, Anthrax, The Mars Volta, B.R.M.C, Tesla, Flaming Lips, Beck, Bad Religion, Brian Setzer, Spoon, Sublime, Toy Dolls, Johnny Cash, Madness, Rush, Queens of the Stone Age (and Kyuss and Mondo Generator and Eagles of Death Metal, of course), Queensryche, Nick Cave, Morphine, System of a Down, Pearl Jam, Madness and The Specials, Keb Mo, Grandaddy, Mark Lanegan, the Jayhawks, Drive-By Truckers, old Metallica, Queensryche, Dream Theater, A Perfect Circle, Monster Magnet, Fiona Apple, Iron & Wine, My Morning Jacket, Sammy Hagar, Stephen Lynch, Arctic Monkeys, Calexico, Jenny Lewis and Rilo Kiley, old Kiss, Bad Religion, Dropkick Murphys, Stephen Lynch, Tiger Army, Common Sense, Portishead... I could go on and on but you've long since stopped reading, haven't you?
Filmler
Long lists are boring, eh? I like cheesy horror flicks, funny comedies that aren't all pie-fucking and farting, and other such movies. If I list them, I'm only going to list the ones that make me seem cooler than I am, like Marty or 8-1/2, and I'll leave off things like They Call Me Bruce and Humanoids From the Deep, so let's save that and just say that I've never liked a Martin Lawrence movie (outside of Boomerang, if that counts) and never disliked a Quentin Tarantino movie. And I most want a box set of Coen brothers flicks. I see much fewer movies in theaters now that I have a daughter at home (named after a Peanuts character, not a '50s sitcom star)...
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Kitaplar
I like books. I also edit and write them, the ones with pictures in them. Books are good. People should read more. I think my favorite book is Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, which I've tried hard to adapt at IDW, but I think we'll land on Mars for real before that happens, unfortunately. When not writing or editing or taking the occasional Wii or "Rock Band" break, I'm usually reading one of 5 or 6 books at a time. Robert Crais is a current literary crushes.
Hakkımda: I'm the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of IDW Publishing, a San Diego-based publisher of comics and graphic novels. We publish horror comics and lots of licensed books based on properties like CSI, Joss Whedon's Angel, and Transformers. Other stuff, too, but IDW's site is a much better source of everything we publish than this space is.
As a writer for the company, here's what I've done so far:
Shaun of the Dead #1-4 and a TPB/HC, with artist Zach Howard
George A. Romero's Land of the Dead #1-5 and TPB with artist Gabriel Rodriguez
Masters of Horror #1-2, with artist Jeremy Haun. TPB will be out in August '06
Doomed #1, adaptations of Richard Matheson's "Blood Son," with Ashley Wood (for which we were nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Short Story. We'll know in mid-July if we win or not); also, David J. Schow's "Blood Rape of the Lust Ghouls," with artist Eduardo Barreto, and Robert Bloch's "Final Performance," with Kristian Donaldson
Doomed #2, an adaptation of David J. Schow's "Bagged!" with artist Ashley Wood
CSI: Dying in the Gutters 1-5. I appear in this storyline as a character, but I didn't write or draw the book
Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show 1-12 with artist Gabriel Rodriguez (issues 1-9 are available now, with the final three finishing by May 2007)
Zombies vs Robots 1-2 with my fellow Eisner-loser, Ashley Wood
D'Airain Aventure 1- . This is Ashley Wood's book but I write two of the stories in each issue, "Black Magick" and more "Zombies vs Robots" serials
Transformers: The Movie Prequel 1-4 with co-writer Simon Furman and artist Don Figueroa
Transformers: The Movie Prequel in-theater giveaway with co-writer Simon Furman and artist Andrew Wildman
Gene Simmons' House of Horrors #1: "Sector Seven" with artist Steph Stamb.
Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show TPB, Vol. 1 and 2
Zombies vs Robots HC collection, oversize, collecting our previous issues and some new tales, too.
Beowulf 1-4 and TPB with artist Gabriel Rodriguez.
Transformers Movie Prequel Special DVD Comic: Target release only with artists Don Figueroa and Andrew Wildman. Wal-Mart exclusive features an animated DVD of our Movie Prequel comic, too
Zombies vs Robots vs Amazons #1-3 with artist Ashley Wood.
The Complete Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show Deluxe HC and TPB
Coming up:
Torakator (co-written with and created by Clive Barker)
Comic Books 101 (co-written with Scott Tipton; to be published by IMPACT Books in June '09; Amazon.com preorder here: http://www.amazon.com/Comic-Books-101-History-Methods/dp/1600611877/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223267810&sr=8-1)
Groom Lake (with Ben Templesmith; launching March '09)
Transformers: I Am Optimus Prime (May '09)
Prior to all of this, I ran Kevin Smith's MoviePoopShoot.com for almost four years (he's since changed the site to QuickStopEntertainment.com and I've taken my ramblings to www.Comics101.com), served as an advertising copywriter, a corporate speechwriter for Honda, a project director for Dick Clark Communications, and a paperboy (in reverse order).
Kimle tanışmak isterim: Rod Serling in 1955.
Stan Lee in 1965.
Vin Scully in 1975.
Bo Derek in 1980.
Kurt Cobain in 1990.
Also, Little Chris Ryall in 1980, to tell him not to worry, that he not only wouldn't have to outgrow reading comics, but that he'd eventually go on to making a living working on them. And yes, Little Chris, you would meet, work with and talk to Stan Lee on multiple occasions. It's all going to work out just fine, so you can stop being such a nervous, skittish little guy.
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hey, man, thanks for the add. i thought i might have pi$$ed you off with my trying to throw my work at you. i won't do that again. i really respect your company and what you're doing with "my" franchises. i cannot wait for gi joe. and a year ago, i doubt i would have said that. in fact, if you go back on the idw forums, i think you'll see me as one of those pains in the arses. but i have faith in your boys and in you. so thank -you for the add. oh, and happy new year! ---matthew cashel
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