About me:

Hello and welcome to my MySpace page. Yes this is the official Ian D. Marsden MySpace page and amazingly, you have found it!

Here and only here is where you will get to converse, chat, laugh, cry and crawl around the floor of the bar on all fours with me. The main body of this page is hardly ever updated, however I do try to post the occasional blog and photo or drawing, so do come back occasionally. Or even better, why not subscribe to my blog? That way you can be assured to receive the inane drivel directly in your mailbox as I unleash it on an unsuspecting mankind. By the way, in this blog I write about all kinds of things that interest me, post music and youtube clips I enjoyed and generally have no overriding concept whatsoever. I have a blog on my website www.marsdencartoons.com which is dedicated solely to my drawings and work updates as well. So what is new? Well, there are many cool things happening at the moment. I just completed a book project called 'Willkommen im Kollegenzoo' for the German publishing house Droemer-Knaur. I am also currently working on a children's book which I have written and which revolves around a bunch of characters I invented. This will be published by Heartglow Publications toward the end of 2008. I finally got around to completely redesigning and restructuring my own website, and it is now available in English, German and French. There are all kinds of new features including a shop, cartoon gallery, illustration gallery, my other blog and also free wallpaper and MySpace graphics etc. Please have a look over at http://www.marsdencartoons.com or CLICK HERE TO VISIT MY LAIR OVER AT: MARSDEN CARTOONS

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My name is Ian

I am a cartoonist, illustrator, animator, comic artist, graphic designer, character designer, humorist, children's book writer and illustrator and 'bon-vivant international swashbuckler.'©TM




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I guess my humor could be described as somewhat abstract with an ironic, sometimes but not always dark and possibly occasionally sarcastic touch.

Not all of my artwork is humorous. Sometimes I create serious illustrations as well and I also create large pop art canvases (well, I call them pop art anyway) as well.

For example: If you are ever in the Los Angeles area, drop by the historic Culver Hotel in Culver City. I designed Duke's Hideaway bar in the lobby of the hotel, including the trompe l'oeil around the bar and the large logo mural, and there are several of my ultra-large canvases (based on the history of the hotel - the previous ownership by John Wayne, the cast of Gone with the Wind who stayed there and the proximity to the Culver Studios etc. There is a rumored underground tunnel between the hotel and the Culver Studios, and the place is supposedly also haunted) on permanent display.



The hotel is located between the Sony Picture Studios and the Culver Studios, and it hosted the cast of 'Gone with the Wind' when they filmed that movie across the street.
The hotel was previously owned by John Wayne



Clark Gable was supposedly amongst the regular guests also.




In addition to the above listed I have also designed websites for various clients (as well as my own, of course)

I also design, program and animate flash multimedia for websites and other presentations.



To see some samples of my flash work, please visit my website at:

http://www.marsdencartoons.com

I had the distinct pleasure of being the first illustrator/cartoonist to create the logo modifications for www.google.com which occasionally appear on the site for special events or holidays. These graphics are called 'Google Doodles'.

Please note: My affiliation with Google was in the late nineties, early 2000s. I do no longer create these doodles and there is a full-time designer/art director at Google now who takes care of these world-wide.



CARTOON WALLPAPER DOWNLOAD

visit the WALLPAPER DOWNLOAD PAGE for free cartoon wallpaper downloads in 1600 x 1200 and 1280 x 1024 formats, from yours truly!

The URL is: http://www.marsdencartoons.com/english/downloads.htm

There is also a MYSPACE GRAPHIC DOWNLOAD PAGE of specially created MySpace cartoon graphics and animated GIFs for free download as well. Including 'Lunatic Glitter' as I call it. Glitter that really isn't glitter at all. A house specialty.

That URL is: http://www.marsdencartoons.com/english/download_myspace.htm

I will constantly be adding more to the collection, so please come back often.

I am originally from New York but I spent the last 10 years in Los Angeles working as an artist on many various projects and also as the creative director for the entertainment label www.jatail.com

In the summer of 2006 I decided to move to southern France. I have always enjoyed Europe very much - and I have always had a big attraction to France, French culture and of course French 'savoir vivre'. A while back I lived in Paris for a few years working as an art director and enjoying life in my tiny little flat in St. Germain, off the marché de Buci. Now I am settled into a lovely little house in Laguedoc-Roussillon. It is a LOT quieter than Los Angeles or New York, that much is for sure. Excellent! I love it!

I love to travel and to meet new and interesting people, I speak five languages and I very much enjoy good food and drinks in good company, especially together with intelligent conversation. I was born in New York city, but I spent many years in Zürich, Switzerland and also some in Paris and also in Barbados in the West Indies. I have family in England and Switzerland and Spain and Barbados and I have good friends and roots in many places. I would be very, very hard-pressed to say where I am actually 'from'. Luckily I don't really believe in borders and certainly not in 'nationalism'. I do strongly believe in 'planetarism' though, and I am very proud to be from planet Vupex 24. So all of you cats from Rigon 37 beware!


"Well, Ian, that all sounds just fine and dandy" you might be saying. "But, what are your dark sides? What sinister secret lurks underneath that wafer-thin mild-mannered cartoonist facade? Where are the dead hitch-hikers buried and why do they appear to be coated in a layer of mulligatawny soup?"

Well, let's see.....
I am always doodling. I like to cover the tablecloth in restaurants with doodles and then color them in with red wine or other condiments. I like to stay up all night (I am a total nightbird) and once I go out I never want to go home...'Closing Time' is not in my vocabulary. Then there is my weakness for fine coffee many many times a day and also for delicious chocolate such as Sprüngli Truffes du Jour or Teuscher Champagne Truffes or even a huge bar of Toblerone, for that matter. Furthermore I am an internationally notorious flirter. Wink! And finally, whenever somebody asks me 'not to peek' - I always do. Always.

If you feel like seeing some more of my cartoons check out my site at:

www.marsdencartoons.com

Un petit mot en français: Bonjour et soyez bienvenu! Je m'appelle Ian (même si on m'appelle plutôt 'Yann') et je suis un dessinateur humoristique et un illustrateur d'origine de New York.  Je habite en France (En Hérault, Languedoc Roussillon jusque un peu au nord de Montpellier) dans un village très sympa ou mes voisins produisent du très bon vin. J'aime le pays et les gens ici beaucoup et je trouve c'est un environnement assez créatif pour moi (pas seulement grace au vin!). J'écris ma page de Myspace en anglais, parce-que c'est quand même la langue de l'internet. J'espère que je vais trouver beaucoup des amis en France aussi sur MySpace et j'aimerais bien correspondre en Français avec vous aussi! Merci pour la visite et a bientôt!


Here is a little video of me scribbling away.
Voila un petit video avec un dessin assez vite...

Ian D. Marsden draws a frightfully unattractive fellow with some sort of skull-cap deficiency
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