Comics, painting, telling stories - y'know, arty things. Plus football and rugby.
Music
Celtic Punk (The Pogues, The Tossers, Flogging Molly)
Television
Madmen, Dogfights, Sports Night, Frasier, Boston Legal, Four on the Floor, Swingtown
Books
Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison, Dreadnought by Robert Massie, England Swings SF edited by Judith Merrill, The Pyrates by George MacDonald Frasier, Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock, Moneyball by Michael Lewis
About me:
Von Allan was born red-headed and freckled in Arnprior, Ontario, just in time for Star Wars: A New Hope. The single child of two loving but troubled parents, Von split most of his childhood between their two homes and, consequently, spent a lot of time in the worlds of comics and wrestling. And, to be perfectly honest, what comics and piledrivers didn't teach him, science fiction did. He managed a small independent bookstore in Ottawa, Ontario for many years, all the while working on story ideas in his spare time-- eventually, he decided to make the leap to a creative life, and "the road to god knows…," an original graphic novel, was the result.
Von currently lives in Ottawa, Canada, with his writer/editor geek wife, Moggy; a husky dog, Rowen; and two feisty cats, Bonny and Reilly. Von is just finishing his first original graphic novel, "the road to god knows…," and he will be starting work on his second graphic novel in the very near future.
