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Héctor Casanova's Interests
General
art, comics, physics, subverting the current sociopolitical paradigm, fancy dancers, good music, questioning assumptions, eye contact, honesty, thinking, also: not thinking, going on impulse, loyalty, compersion, vicarious pleasure... and all other kinds too.
Music
air, american catastrophe, angelo badalmaneti, anvil chorus, beastie boys, beck, belle & sebastian, beta band, black heart procession, cafe tacuba, calexico, can, casey scott & the creeps, cinematic orchestra, coil, coldcut, control machete, creech holler, dan the automator, deadly snakes, denver broncos, devics, digable planets, doves, DJ Krush, kurt weill, edith piaf, elvis, flaming lips, funki porcini, gogol bordello, gorillaz, hard target, herbie hancock, humanwine, immigrant suns, jay munly, johnny cash, ken nordine, king missile, kleptones, kronos quartet, kraftwerk, kruder & dorfmeister, leonard cohen, liliana felipe, madeleine peyroux, maldita vecindad, maria dolores pradera, marvin gaye, massive attack, mogwai, molotov, munly & the lee lewis harlots, nick cave, o'death, phillip glass, pogues, portishead, radiohead, reverend glasseye, sigur rós, slim cessna's auto club, sixteen horsepower, tarantella, thamusemeant, tom waits, tricky, uncle tupelo, U.N.K.L.E., velvet underground, ween, woven hand, yann tiersen, yo la tengo, z-rock hawaii, zero7, ...
Movies
Amelie, Brazil, City if Lost Children, Delicatessen, Freddy vs. Jason, Kafka, My Dinner with Andre, Nightmare Before Christmas, Nightmare on Elm Street (1,3,7), Oldboy, Pi, the Pillow Book, Reservoir Dogs, the Stuff, Waking Life, Wings of Desire, Zoolander
Television
Books
Science, Philosphy, Comics and Fiction... (together or separately... shaken or stirred)
E.O. Wilson's Consilience, Leonard Shlain's Art and Physics, Dave McKean's Cages, Chris ware's Jimmy Corrigan (the Smartest Kid on Earth), Daniel Quinn's Ishmael, Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, Gregory Maguire's Wicked, Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Katherine Dunn's Geek Love... too many to count and I'm feeling lazy.
About me: I make pictures. I am tempted to say "pretty pictures" but often they are unsettling enough to not be pretty. And sometimes I put a bunch of them in a row, and they become a comic.
Most recently this was the case with the series Screamland, written by Harold Sipe and illustrated by me. Image comics. Good times.
And when I am not doing THAT, I am making stand alone illustrations for magazines, album covers, posters, etc. which is how I pay the rent. And THEN sometimes I make pictures just for the sheer childlike glee of making some messed up beautiful thing, and those never pay the rent, so I hang them on a wall for a while or I give them to friends. If that made y'all curious, you can see a few of all of the above here:hectorcasanova.net
Who I'd like to meet: art directors, publishers, other artists, comics artists, illustrators, musicians, and anyone interested in breaking a few rules, making something awesome, and changing the way things are done in the world.
Please note: I will generally accept friend requests, as long as it's not from spam or porn profiles. Gratuitous graphics comments will be summarily deleted. Post no bills.
Really enjoyed this last Screamland. And the cover of the next one looks amazing (who can resist Dracula?) Yes, I think I need that in poster form. ... Anyway, finally read the Lurkers, too. My god that was good. See ya.
