Comic Books, drawing, painting, film, Ancient Art, Modern Art, and some other stuff.
Music
Love the White Stripes. I'll listen to anything Jack White is involved with. The man's a genius. Here we go, in no particular order: Deerhoof, The Blow, Blonde Redhead, Amon Tobin, The Killers, The Rolling Stones, Platzangst, Dinosaur Jr, Sigur Ros, Albert Hammond Jr., BlueGrass, Gorillaz, Rob Zombie, Beastie Boyz, Liz Phair, Nirvana, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Loretta Lynn, John Prine, Foo Fighters, They Might Be Giants, Beatles, Ween, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Beck, Sinead O'Connor, Jay-Z, Radio Head, Frank Zappa, The Flaming Lips, Eminem, NWA, Ludacris, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Cat Power, The Fruit Bats, Le Tigre, LCD Soundsystem etc
Movies
My two all-time favorites are The Good The Bad And The Ugly and The Seven Samurai. That's all you get. If I start typing all my favorite movies my fingers will fall off.
Television
The Sopranos (by far the best show to ever be on television) Lost, The Wire, Deadwood, Veronica Mars, Dexter, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Extras, My Name is Earl, 30 Rock, Homicide: Life on the Streets, The History Channel (all of it)and any reality police procedurals like The First 48
Books
Authors I dig: John Steinbeck, Truman Capote, Cormac McCarthy, Michael Chabon, Charles Frazier, Marilynne Robinson, Jim Thompson, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammet, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Frank Miller, Mike Carey, Jason Aaron, Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes, Charles Burns and Craig Thompson
About me: My family and I are back in Iowa after a 4 year stint in Southern California. A bit of work for Hollywood was one of the few high points while living there. LA was awesome, but no place to raise a child. During the day I am a substitute teacher and at night I struggle to produce something worth looking at.
Check out Negative Burn #12 as it has a story in it by Phil Hester and I entitled Big Q: Butter Sandwich. Phil wrote an awesome script and he and I tackled the art. Check future issues of Negative Burn for more Big Q stories. I will be writing and drawing some of them.
Be on the lookout for 13 Steps #5. I handled the gray tones over Kevin Mellon's wonderful linework.
Currently lettering the next Big Q installment, BIG Q: HIDDEN TARGET. It was written by fellow shocktraumanaut Jason Caskey and Kyle
Strahm performed a major slam dunk on the art. It's really something to see. Look for it soon in the pages of Negative Burn.
Also working on a really cool action comic called Safe House with the super talented Dennis Hopeless. He's a great writer (if you don't believe me, check out GEARHEAD! It's awesome!) and apparently a super patient human being for putting up with my bullshit. I'm sure he's getting anxious to see some artwork from it, so I'll be posting teaser images in my pics folder. I'll keep you posted.
Hey. I just realized who you were. Actually, I realized who you weren't. I have a friend named Aaron (who's an art teacher) and who's Simpson-version of himself looks frighteningly similar to yours. Sorry for the over-share earlier.
you're going to Wizard World?!? I'm so insanely jealous. I have been a comic dork for most my life and have been an on-again off-again subscriber to Wizard but have never been to the Con. I did get to go to the San Diego Comic Con back in '97, but that was a loooong time ago.
But yeah, I was very pleasantly surprised by Veronica Mars, too. A lot of writers I respect (Joss Whedon, Kevin Smith) kept talking about it online, so I thought I'd check it out. I was amazed at how well written it was, the subjects they tackled, and yet how constantly entertaining it was. I'd recommend it to most anybody.
