-Drawing, listening to music, going to the club(industrial/EBM/Goth/80's alt.), studying subculture, art work, abstract paintings, illustration, psychology, stories, politics, making sculpture, painting, humanity, writing comic stories, photography, american indy comics, film, wine, cartoons, cheese, coffee, sushi, retro video games, the dark things in life, and reading comics/manga
Music
Depeche Mode, Seabound, The Smiths, Melotron, Wolfsheim, Mors Syphilitica, Dismantled, Edge of Dawn, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Gary Numan, The Cure, And One, Echo and the Bunnymen, Psychedelic Furs, Camouflage, Weep, Clan of Xymox, Joy Division, Colony 5, Endanger, Dave Gahan, Code 64, Rotersand, Covenant, De/vision, Iris, Neuroticfish, Skinny Puppy, Mesh, Sisters of Mercy, Combichrist, Pink Floyd, VNV Nation, B!Machine, David Bowie, Danny Elfman, Oingo Boingo, New Order, The Church, Peter Murphy, Bauhaus, Voltaire, The Pixies, Assemblage 23, Namnambulu, T.O.Y., My Bloody Valentine, The Sundays, Moev, The Faint, Pet Shop Boys, Voltaire, Talking Heads, The Beatles, Ladytron, Morrissey, David Byrne, She Wants Revenge, They Might be Giants, The Birthday Massacre, Vast, Radiohead, Cab Calloway, Edith Paif, Billie Holiday, B-52's, Ben Folds, S.P.O.C.K., Paul McCartney, A Perfect Circle, TOOL, The Vapours, The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Metric, Apoptygma Berzerk, Bjork, The Ventures, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, The Ventures, Chopin, Brahms, Bach, etc.
Movies
Nightmare Before Christmas, Se7en, The Wall, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Princess Bride, Spaceballs, Star Wars- The Empire Strikes Back, Rear Window, Sleepy Hollow, Batman Returns, Corpse Bride, Brazil, Edward Scissorhands, CQ, Love and Death, Rodger Rabbit, Back to the Future, Animal Crackers, Bananas, Ken Russel's The Devils, Love and Death
Television
The Venture Brothers, Boston Legal, Doctor Who, Simon Schama's The Power of Art, Jonathan Miller's A History of Disbelief, Invader Zim, Gargoyles, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Rick Steve's Europe, Sex and the City, John Stewart's Daily Show, Dave Chapelle, The Colbert Report, Kids in the Hall, Star Trek The Next Generation, The Journal with Bill Moyers, Frontline, DS9, Daria, Inside the Actors Studio, Current TV, Turner Classic Movies Channel, PBS, The Critic, The Boondocks, Evangelion, Escaflowne, Serial Experiments Lain, Paranoia Agent, RahXephon, Utena, Vampire Hunter D, Samurai Champloo
Books
(Novels) I prefer non-fiction books that deal with psychology, story telling, philosophy, art, and other things of this nature. (Comics) Gloom Cookie, Nightmares and Fairytales, Sullengrey, I feel sick (a story about a girl), DE:Tales; stories from Brazil, Confessions of a Blabbermouth, Awakening, Killing Pickman, From Hell, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Squee!, Filler Bunny, Oh My Goth (Humans Suck), Haunted Mansion, Wonderland, Courtney Crumin, Tokyo Babylon, Paradise Kiss, Clover
Heroes
Egon Schiele, Jhonen Vasquez, Franz Von Stuck, FSc, Dali, Alphonse Mucha, Gustav Klimt, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Yoshitoshi ABe, Ai Yazawa, John William Waterhouse, Vincent van Gough (for his interior/room paintings), Caravaggio, CLAMP, Gary Numan, Walt Disney (the concept of him as a man who revolutionized the cartoon industry), Einstein, Carl Sagan, George Donald, Tim Burton, Doc-Hammer, Jackson Publick, James Ubaniak
As for a fictional hero- Alan Shore from Boston Legal
Hello! I'm Chandra Free.
I am a comic book artist, fine artist, illustrator, colorist, painter, and appreciator of the arts.
Music powers my art work, so i've very passionate about what I listen to.
I'm into subculture of many types, and I enjoy stimulating conversation.
Myspace might not be my thing, but it does allow for me to network with those out there that i wouldn't normally get a chance to talk with. Not only that, but it gives me opportunities to watch my favorite bands/artists, and keep up with what they're doing.(And keep up with my friends as well.)
My intention with this account, is to post updates on my work in the future as it comes out. This by all means is not a personal journal (i have LJ for that.) Though from time to time I might comment on movies, music, art, or other things if it suits my fancy.
I appreciate any of you who stop by.
The God Machine
Publisher: Archaia Studios Press
Role: Artist/Writer/Creator
Street Date: 2009 TBA Synopsis: Stricken with grief from the death of his girlfriend, Sith, Guy Salvatore struggles day-to-day to make sense of his world. He’s plagued with hallucinations of monsters that torment him with outrageous requests and threaten his life wherever he goes. He’s unsure if these manifestations are real or are being invented by his own sickened mind.
A man calling himself Satan holds the answers to Guy’s woes. Satan’s twisted tongue removes the tragedy of Sith’s death, and restores hope with the promise of her being alive. But there’s a catch! It seems that the two Gods that govern all of existence, let her be stolen from her world by an unknown force. Now she is floating aimlessly in and out of dimensional planes known as the “Dream Worlds.” Satan implores Guy to take action and call upon his latent power to break through his world’s plane, search out Sith, and take vengeance upon the vile Gods that caused this atrocity.
What’s a “Guy” to do? Especially when you think you’re going out of your skull, and a suspiciously cliché and creepy man in a graveyard tells you that your dead girlfriend is alive! Join Guy as he battles his perceptions of reality and starts to discover things that go beyond his world and into another.
An ongoing psychological drama-comedy about life, love, the politics of Gods, and everything you wanted to know about existence, but were afraid to ask!
Past Projects:
*Cover pictured- Sullengrey: Cemetery Things Trade. Line work by Drew Rausch.
Check out my 30 seconds of fame I received back in August on an Adult Swim bump. :)
Featuring my Venture Brothers art work.
My Adult Swim Bumps:
Who I'd like to meet: Artists, musicians, friends, people who inspire, etc.
*About my top friends-
I never know what to do with the damn thing. It's made up of close friends, people in the industry that i've met, and whatever. I don't know how to order it since I don't like to say one person/thing is better than the other. So never feel offended if you go on and off my list, or I change the order. I think the whole thing is silly- and personally who I choose is a product of who I'd like to receive exposure if necessary or whatever. I really don't know. Does it matter?
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I'm glad you got the pkg. I thought you'd like the kitty pins. If you can't see the boys panel, perhaps you can offer to meet them for coffee later? Right now, the only way you could get me to SDCC is in a comic box, cut up in pieces. lol But Bill Sienkiewcz will be at a con here next weekend and that is all good too.
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