General
NEW WEBSITE, www.theartfuldoodler.com COMING SOON! For now, those of you on Facebook (probably most of you) why not join my group, The Artful Doodler. PLEASE SCROLL DOWN THE PAGE FOR DETAILS ON HOW TO BOOK ME.
Anyway hello! My name's Rich. I work as a cartoonist in the UK, drawing caricatures of people's ugly mugs at weddings, parties and other venues.. details of how to book me are featured below. It's really great to have such a fun job and for that I consider myself to be very lucky indeed. My real passion in life are the comic books I write. I'm one half of a small press comics company called Pantomime Press, which I run with my old college pal Robert Martin. If you've never read one of my comics before, please give one a try. There's very little if no profit in writing small press comics but simply knowing that people are reading my work is reward enough. It seems bizarre to think of the amount of people that know me that have never read one of my stories. Do they really know me? How do they know that they're not being ridiculed in the pages of my books? Most of my work is adult humour, from my cinema based horror, "Dr. Ripper's Multiplex" to my semi-autobiographical "Cursed Cartoonist" series, but there's also some comics for all ages, such as "Dog Hair" and Alan Donald's epic sci-fi "Angela" which I illustrated. You can visit the Pantomime Press website at
www.pantomimepress.co.uk, which has regular updates once every 56, 000 years!
Anyone who has read my comics will know that I have a bit of a morbid sense of humour and a taste for the theatrical. Find a tale with the settings of a Dickens novel, the ghoulishness of an Edgar Allen Poe story and the humour of Black Books (the superb channel 4 comedy) and I can die happy!
Don't let this concern you if you want to book me to do caricatures at an event however, I'll leave the halloween makeup and the warped sense of humour at home! I am normal, honestly!
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Music
The Nightshade Family, MIKA, The Hoosiers, Amy Winehouse, Nina Simone, CSS, Pixies, Scissor Sisters, Tenacious D, REM, Evanescence, Portishead, Keane, Terry Reid, Tom Waits, Alanis Morrisette, Tiger Lillies, Stereophonics, Madness, Marilyn Manson, Lynrd Skynrd, Travis, Coldplay, Ray Charles, The Doors, Prince, Danny Elfman.... and on and on
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Movies
Shawshank Redemption, Scent of a Woman, Devil's Rejects, Interview with the Vampire, V for Vendetta, The Early Bird, A Shot in the Dark, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Crumb, Severance, Shaun of the Dead, Ghost World, American Splendor, Clerks, Mallrats, Casino Royale (at last a decent Bond film), Godfather, Jeepers Creepers, Halloween, Fight Club, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Producers, Seven, American Beauty, Withnail and I, Donnie Darko, The Witches of Eastwick, Devil's Advocate, Pet Semetary, Dead Man,Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense, Sleepy Hollow, Schindler's List, Meet Joe Black, The Big Lebowski, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Weird Science, Barton Fink, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Amadeus, Being John Malkovich, Immortal Beloved, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.. the list goes on..
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Television
Dexter (best tv show there is), Curb your Enthusiasm, Doctor Who, The IT Crowd, Hyperdrive, Fonejacker, Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends, Worzel Gummidge, Blackadder, My Name Is Earl, Derren Brown trick of the mind, Father Ted, Bottom, Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible, Supernatural, Smallville, Red Dwarf, The Friday Night Project, Northern Exposure, The League of Gentlemen, Extras, I'm Alan Partridge, The Office, Black Books, Spaced, The Mighty Boosh, Invader Zim, Most Haunted...
Books
Novels: The Discworld series, Dracula, Treasure Island, Oliver Twist, The Hobbit, Hannibal, K-Pax, The Vampire Lestat, Harry Potter, Comic book/Graphic novel: Cassanova's Last Stand, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Squee, Bone, The Goon, Maus, Goodbye Chunky Rice, Strangehaven, Wilderemere, Fungus the Bogeyman, ...
Heroes
Real heroes: Peter Cushing, Norman Wisdom, Billy Connolly, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Tim Burton, Kevin Smith (ok, I know the last two don't like each other!) Hunt Emerson, Robert Crumb, Jhonen Vasquez, Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmonson, Gene Wilder, Bill Bailey, Larry David, Dylan Moran, Harvey Pekar, Kevin Spacey, Gary Oldman, Louis Theroux, Edward Gorey, Andy Kaufman, Rob Zombie. Fictional heroes: Andy Dufrense, Prot, V, Kaiser Soze, Granny Weatherwax, The Artful Dodger, Baron Munchhausen, Bernard Black, Jack Sparrow, Papa Lazarou, Johnny the homocidal maniac, Hannibal Lecter (now you're worried!)..
Comments
Jul 9 2009 1:23 AM
Apr 29 2009 8:31 AM
enjoy your day... or night... or what ever!
Mar 30 2009 7:58 AM
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Mar 12 2009 7:15 PM
Mar 12 2009 12:13 PM
hope you have enjoyed our music
cheers THE RUBICON
Mar 6 2009 10:50 PM
If you are interested, I could send you a poster as a token of thanks.
Let us know.
NSF
Mar 5 2009 12:39 AM
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Feb 19 2009 3:11 PM
Feb 19 2009 8:29 PM
anyways happy birthday
u old git
Feb 16 2009 12:07 PM
Gazpacho's first-ever full headline European tour is finally booked!
see you in spring at the Tick Tock Tour?!
enjoy your day... or night!
http://www.myspace.com/gazpachomusic
Feb 17 2009 10:18 PM
If you're feelling blue , listen to VV's New 2009 Single "Liars In Love" ironically, Its a happy song.
xo VV
Feb 17 2009 10:38 PM
Happy Birthday to you. Hope that you have a great day and year. Much Aloha to you.
Feb 14 2009 1:54 PM
Dec 3 2008 7:48 PM
Venue - CHINNERYS, Southend (www.chinnerys.co.uk)
Time - Doors open at 8pm
Cost - £3 entry
Other bands playing include Mantango, Khalil and Feed The Immortal
The venue details are as follows...
CHINNERYS
21-22 Marine Parade
Southend on Sea
Essex
SS1 2EJ
By Phone 01702 467305
Much love.
Dec 2 2008 10:56 AM
P.S.: Download-Album on iTunes and many other stores ww.! :)
free mp3 download available on: www.myspace.com/4tune8music www.4tune8.de
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Oct 16 2008 4:19 AM
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Aug 31 2008 7:07 PM
long time no speak, how are you?
i just decided this morning to write another comic - its been nearly two years!
glad the drawing is going well!
alex
Aug 13 2008 10:32 PM
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