-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, De/vision, Iris, The Smiths, Melotron, Wolfsheim, Dismantled, Camouflage, Mors Syphilitica, Edge of Dawn, Rotersand, Pride and Fall, Covenant, Neuroticfish, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Gary Numan, The Cure, And One, Echo and the Bunnymen, Psychedelic Furs, Weep, Clan of Xymox, Joy Division, Colony 5, Endanger, Dave Gahan, Code 64, 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, 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., Radiohead, 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 Cell [visually], The Princess Bride, Spaceballs, Star Wars- The Empire Strikes Back, Rear Window, Sleepy Hollow, Batman Returns, Brazil, Love and Death, Rodger Rabbit, Animal Crackers, Bananas, Ken Russel's The Devils, Iron Man, Star Trek [new], The Jacket
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, 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, Turner Classic Movies Channel, 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) DE:Tales; stories from Brazil, Optic Nerve, Fell, In the Flesh, Paris, Gloom Cookie, Nightmares and Fairytales, The Professor's Daughter, Sullengrey, I feel sick (a story about a girl), Awakening, Killing Pickman, Titanium Rain, The War at Ellsmere, I Killed Adolf Hitler, From Hell, Soul Kiss, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Squee!, Filler Bunny, Haunted Mansion, Courtney Crumrin, 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, Walt Disney (the concept of him as a man who revolutionized the cartoon industry), Einstein, Carl Sagan, George Donald,Doc-Hammer, Jackson Publick
As for a fictional hero- Alan Shore from Boston Legal
Chandra Free is writer and illustrator of The God Machine, from publisher Archaia.
Born and bred into captivity of Orlando, Florida, Chandra (pronounced CHAN-drah, like Jackie CHAN) finds her present-day home situated some 15 minutes from her childhood haunts. It is here that she concocts her uniquely abstract and elongated art and comics. Intensely interested in the incorporation of psychology into her art, she focuses on the subconscious and human aspects of her characters. In addition to her comic The God Machine, she has worked on the comic Sullengrey (published by Ape Entertainment), as a digital painter for Sullengrey: Sacrifice #1 and parts of the Sullengrey graphic novel titled Cemetery Things.
When not chained to her desk, she can be seen out and about at soirees, dancing to industrial clanging, Goth chanting, and Moz-like croonings.
The God Machine
Publisher: Archaia Studios Press
Role: Artist/Writer/Creator
Street Date: October 28th 2009 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!
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Present & Past Projects:
The God Machine; Role: writer/artist [current]
Sullengrey: Cemetery Things Trade Paperback; Role: Colorist on Front/Back covers, colotist on "Fear." [past]
The Darkgoodbye Vol. 2; Colorist on front cover. [past]
Who I'd like to meet: Upcoming Appearances: A Comic Shop, Winter Park FL. Oct. 28th 2009 @ 11 a.m. Signing for THE GOD MACHINE. A COMIC SHOP is located at 114 South Semoran Blvd., Winter Park, FL. 32792. - phone (407)332-9636 MORE DETAILS COMING SOON!
Stardust Video & Coffee, Winter Park FL. Oct. 28th 2009 @ 9:30 p.m. Release party for THE GOD MACHINE. Stardust is located at 1842 E. Winter Park road, Orlando, FL. - phone (407) 623-3393 MORE DETAILS COMING SOON!
SciFi City, Orlando FL. HALLOWEEN 31st 2009, 1:00 p.m. In store signing for THE GOD MACHINE! Sci-Fi City is located at 6006 E Colonial Drive
Orlando, FL 32807, phone 407-282-2292
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Damn, I was hoping for something more concrete but I can't blame you. I'm a collage dresser as well. I'll have to hit up conventions more often (when I have the monies) I've just recently been inspired by Doc Hammer, the man himself. I can't believe what I've been missing out on just focusing on the Venture Bros, he's a damn machine!
I thank you kindly for the add, it's quite a pleasure to make your acquaintance! If you would like to view more artwork, please visit my homepage GRANDPASTUDIOS.COM!! I currently only have cropped detail images of my drawings on myspace.
aw, thanks buddy. yeah, i'm trying out some more digital paintering lately. i'm getting mixed results but i was happy with the shadow and his enormous nose.
