For fun: NPR, film, theater, opera, music videos, dance, early Christianity, fin-de-siècle, the Symbolists and Decadents.
Music
Contemporary (in no particular order): Bjork, Rufus Wainwright, Camille, Leonard Cohen, Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughn, Edith Piaf, Billy Holiday, Phillip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Alaska.
Kubrick, Visconti, Pasolini, Fellini, early Bertolucci, Haynes, Solondz, early Polanski, early Coppola, Herzog, Bergman, Berlanga, Allen, Hitchcock.
Television
If I watched it I would love Six Feet Under. I should get around to watching Lost and Grey's Anatomy since my friends write for them.
Books
"The Master and Margarita", "Undine", "The Happy Prince and Other Stories", "The Book of Monelle", "A Confederacy of Dunces", "Was", "Fraud", "Books of Blood", "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay", anything by David Sedaris, David Rakoff, Kelly Link, Sappho, Oscar Wilde, Marcel Schwob, Tennesse Williams, Federico Garcia Lorca.
Heroes
Dimitris Papaioannou, Ira Glass, Terry Gross, Pierre et Gilles, Sarah Moon, Javier Vallhonrat, Jean Cocteau, Simeon Solomon, Mel Odom, Odilon Redon, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edmund Dulac, Lisbeth Zwerger.
The slideshow above is a presentation of the images in the book The Mirror of Love by Alan Moore and Jose Villarrubia.
Currently working on:
CONAN
NEW AVENGERS
MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS
CROSSING MIDNIGHT
GHOST RIDER
THUNDERBOLTS
WOLVERINE
BATMAN (with Sam Keith)
JOKER"S ASYLUM
MANHUNTER
HALO UPRISING
Villarrubia is an artist who has done considerable work in the American comic book industry, particularly as a colorist. Villarrubia's fine art photography has been exhibited in the U.S., Latin America and Europe, and it is part of the permanent collection of institutions such as the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Inter-American Development Bank. He is a professor in the Illustration Department of the Maryland Institute College of Art. He has also taught at Towson University, the Baltimore School for the Arts and the Walters Art Museum. He has lectured extensively about art at Johns Hopkins University, the College Art Association, Dickinson College, the Institute of Contemporary Arts|ICA in London, the Williem de Kooning Academy, the Naples Academy of Art, and the MacWorld UK Convention.
Current work includes: Illustrating The Book of Copulations, an introduction to magic in everyday life written by Alan Moore, developing Alan Moore's Tarot deck, coloring for all the major US comics companies (Crossing Midnight for DC, Ghost Rider and Silver Surfer for Marvel, City of Others and Conan for Dark Horse) and a couple European projects (La Chica Bionica by Paul Pope for Dargaud Belgium)
Who I'd like to meet: Dimitris Papaioannou!
Anyone interested in my work or with similar tastes/values/interests/world view.
I finally took your advice and set up a booth at the Stumptown Comic Con in Portland, and I made a good chunk of change selling screenprints. Even Tara McPhereson stopped by to see me. Once again, you were right. thanks.
well it is for myself. it is not a copy.. i have been working on these self promo pieces, that i am going to send out to art directors. It is a series of superheroes before the movies come out. first one is hulk, next in the line is iron man, batman, hellboy.. i still have to add edward norton in to that composition.
Nice to see you and your Mom the other day. Who would you suggest I speak to? My brain was full of correction details for the print job I was carrying. Hope our paths will cross again. I really enjoyed hearing your thoughts about MICA.
Mr. villarrubia thank you so very much for signing all of my books and the sketch of caption america. It was a honor meeting you at comic-con and I am eagerly hoping to be seeing more of you work in the future.
Piracy is Liberation 003: Wires Erica is a Slave, toiling away at her machine, and she is satisfied with it. She's got family, friends, food on the table. What does she want with freedom? But something is starting to grow within her. A voice calling itself Information, saying there could be more to life. But the Masters will not stand by as the Slaves free themselves, and Erica will soon find out what her machine really does...
In Previews right now! Order the book from your local comics dealer today! Publisher: C'est Bon Kultur Writer/artist: Mattias Elftorp Cover artist: Susanne Johansson
»Courageous and effective. Simplicity justified by desperate need for expression.« Danijel Zezelj
»Mattias Elftorp's stories are dark, nervy, fine, and edgy, as is his artwork. However as dark as the post-apocalyptic world he envisions appears to be, it is a world full of promise.« Carol Swain
»Strange and disturbing and beautiful.« Ho Che Anderson
»an art style that seems to me to combine Brian Wood with Ben Templesmith, to jagged, hate-ridden, nervous effect. I really like it, and I’m pissed off that my copy got mislaid.« Warren Ellis
FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS CHOMBOLICO CON UN POQUITO DE RETRASO!!!!!!!!!! Que tal la super fiesta que me ha contado la Ofa que hiciste? espero que SUPERBIEN!! Muchos, muchos besos de tu hermanillo, álvaro
