Books (mainly fiction), comic books (mainly without superheroes), Troy and the Trojan War, ballet, travel, swimming, writing, drawing, Oz and other children's fantasy (such as Doctor Dolittle, Freddy the Pig, Mushroom Planet, Narnia, but not Harry Potter)
Music
Piotr Tchaikovsky,
David Bowie,
The B-52s,
Victor Herbert,
The Vapors,
ABBA,
Amanda McBroom
Favorite individual pieces:
"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" by Otto Harbach and Jerome Kern,
"Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush,
"Wave of Mutilation" by Black Francis,
Ballet from Carousel by Richard Rodgers,
"Desperado" by Don Henley and Glenn Frey,
Theme from The Mighty Hercules by Winston Sharples,
"Birth of a Butterfly" by Victor Herbert,
"Losing my Mind" by Stephen Sondheim,
"When I Kissed the Teacher" by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus,
"Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix" and "Amour! Viens aider ma faiblesse" from Samson et Dalila by Saint-Saens,
"I Don't Like Mondays" by Bob Geldof,
"Enola Gay" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Theme from Speed Racer by Peter Fernandez,
"Love is a Song" by L. Morey and F. Churchill,
"Let's Get Retarded" by Will Adams, Allan Pineda, Jaime Gomez, Terence Yoshiaki, Mike Fratantuno, and George Pahon, Jr.,
"I Think I Love You" by Tony Romeo,
"Over the Rainbow" by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg,
"Love My Way" by The Psychedelic Furs,
"Bad" by U2,
"O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini,
"Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie,
"Atomic" by Blondie,
"Solsbury Hill" by Peter Gabriel
Movies
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,
Lawrence of Arabia,
The Sound of Music,
My Neighbor Totoro,
Blue Velvet,
King Kong (1933),
Ben Hur (1925),
Rosemary's Baby,
Casablanca,
Wages of Fear,
Singing in the Rain,
Can't Stop the Music,
Jason and the Argonauts,
Paper Moon
Why doesn't Myspace have a place for favorite stage works? Here they are: Medea by Euripides, West Side Story by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim; Carousel by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (from Ferenc Molnar), Caroline, or Change by Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori, Sunday in the Park with George by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, The Wiz by William F. Brown and Charlie Smalls, Starstruck by Elaine Lee, Swan Lake by Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky, Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides, Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill
Television
Jewel in the Crown;
I, Claudius
Books
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald, The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald, The Ox-bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Sky Island by L. Frank Baum, She by H. Rider Haggard, The Wandering Jew by Eugene Sue, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy, Night People by Jack Finney, The King Must Die by Mary Renault, The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
Why doesn't Myspace have a favorite comics section?
Here they are: Blueberry by Charlier and Jean Giraud (Moebius), Cerebus by Dave Sim and Gerhard, Pogo by Walt Kelly, The Marvel Family by C.C. Beck, Otto Binder, Kurt Schaffenberger, et al, Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay, Tintin by Herge, Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind by Hayao Miyazaki, Ernie Pook's Comeek by Lynda Barry, Love and Rockets by Los Bros Hernandez, Promethea by Alan Moore, J.H. Williams III, et al, Uncle Scrooge by Carl Barks and by Don Rosa, Wonder Woman by Charles Moulton (William Moulton Marston) and H.G. Peter, X-men by Roy Thomas and Neal Adams, and by Chris Claremont and John Byrne, Salome by P. Craig Russell,
and just about anything by Ed Brubaker and by Alan Moore
How come Myspace doesn't have a favorite artists section? Here they are:
John R. Neill,
Alphonse Mucha,
Johnny Gruelle,
Maxfield Parrish,
Frederick Richardson,
J.C. Leyendecker,
Robert Lawson
I've been a freelance cartoonist for more than 20 years. My work has been published widely. Age of Bronze, a retelling of the complete Trojan War legend, is my current primary project.
Hi! I'm Eric Shanower, the award-winning cartoonist, author, and illustrator. My work has been widely published—from Marvel Comics to Random House, from Nickelodeon Magazine to BBC television.
My current comics project, Age of Bronze, tells the complete story of the Trojan War in all its dramatic detail. Every version from Homer's Iliad on down will be newly integrated in comics form when Age of Bronze is finished. It's also set in the correct period—the 13th century BCE. Age of Bronze has been published by Image Comics since 1998, garnering two Eisner Awards, a Gran Guinigi, and a slew of nominations. The second volume, Sacrifice, was selected as one of the Best Books of 2004 by the editors of Publishers Weekly. In addition to English, Age of Bronze is published in Spanish, French, Polish, Italian, Croatian, and Indonesian. To see sample pages and excerpts, go to www.age-of-bronze.com
Age of Bronze: Betrayal Part One is the latest publication. Here's the cover:
Watch a webcast interview I did with Emanuel Wall of Strategy First:
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As the most prominent current "Wizard of Oz" illustrator, I've also published a terrific amount of comics, prose, and illustrations in the tradition of the original Oz books by L. Frank Baum and his successors. One of my recent Oz books is Adventures in Oz from IDW, a collection of my five Oz graphic novels. It's in Italian, too, from Free Books.
Forthcoming publications: Age of Bronze #29 (Fall 2009) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz comic book series, Marvel Illustrated, written by me, illustrated by Skottie Young (Monthly now through July 2009) Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum and Walt McDougall, Sunday Press Books (June 2009): I wrote a couple essays and compiled a bibliography How Beautiful the Ordinary, edited by Michael Cart, HarperTeen (Oct. 2009): I contributed an 11-page comics story titled "Happily Ever After" Classics and Comics, edited by George Kovacs and C.W. Marshall, Oxford University Press (spring 2010): I contributed an 11-page comics story about Age of Bronze titled "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Iphigenia and Other Matters of Grave Import"
Recent publications: Age of Bronze: Betrayal Part One Age of Bronze #28 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6
Eric, it's SO good to hear from you again :)) Yes, Calvin has grown a lot. You should really come over again and spend some time with us. Could you make it this summer? xxxx
CHIEF SEATTLE WAS ONE OF THE LAST OF THE PALEOLITHIC ORDER TO SPEAK OUT ABOUT SOMETHING THAT IS VERY NEAR AND DEAR TO MY OWN WAY OF THINKING. MORE THAN ANY RELIGIOUS TEXT OR DOCUMENT, HE SUMS UP MY OWN BELIEFS WITH THIS LETTER THAT HE SENT TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WHEN THE US INQUIRED ABOUT PURCHASING LAND FROM HIM IN 1852...
Dearest Eric, I want to thank you warmly for giving Mark a great welcome and being such lovely hosts. Thank you so much for your gifts! I appreciate them all the more, especially since Mark told me what a massive amount of work goes into it. I really hope to see you both in Belgium again, one of these days. Kisses xxxxxx --Katerine
Hey, thanks for becoming part of my "friend" space! I'm looking to get more plugged in with creatives worldwide through this social network.
Great series, Eric! I talk up "Age of Bronze" whenever anyone will listen. What a great way to story history, with the architecture, weaponry and costuming! This is what the comic book medium is made for.
My Xeric grant winning book "Jazz: Cool Birth" is now in September's Previews for preorder at comic shops, a murder mystery in a 1957 jazz bar, with art and type based on '50s album cover design, dig? Bebop for your glims.
I'm looking forward to exploring the MySpace pages of all of my new "friends" (Man, does that sound square).
LONG AGO BEFORE MAN EVER WOKE UP....BEFORE ALARM CLOCKS EVER WENT OFF..IT WAS A TIME WHEN ANCIENT WARRIORS READIED THEMSELVES FOR BATTLE WITH DEMONS FROM HELL...
