At the moment it is primarily drawing my horror mini-series BONESAW...here is a sneak peak at the cover to #2.
After that comes writing, painting, sculpting, fine art, lowbrow art...hell, ALL art. Design, film, publishing, advertising; I love great design.
Books, movies, comics, TV: SF, noir, thriller, comedy, animation, anime; love lots of genres but HORROR is what really claws at my heart and rips into the tattered remnants of my soul.
WRITERS: Robert Burns, Peter O'Donnell, Harlan Ellison, Alfred Bester, Ian Fleming, Nigel Kneale, John Wyndham, Frank Herbert, Arthur Conan Doyle, M. R. James, Clive Barker, Graham Masterton, Dean Koontz, James Herbert, Stephen King, Georges Bataille, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert E. Howard, Ray Bradbury, Phillip K. Dick, Stephen King, Robert McCammon, Harper Lee, Richard Matheson, John D. McDonald, Dashiel Hammet, Raymond Chandler, James Crumley, David Goodis, James Elroy, Richard Stark, Jim Thompson, Elmore Leonard, Charles Willeford, Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Moorcock, Kim Newman, Douglas Clegg, Troy Kennedy Martin, Shane Black, Leigh Brackett, Stephen Hawking, Robert Graves, Mervyn Peake ----
COMICS CREATORS: Jack Kirby, Frank Miller, Will Eisner, Neal Adams, Joe Kubert, Steranko, Frank Bellamy, Howard Chaykin, Alex Toth, Jack Cole, Enki Bilal, Alan Moore, Alberto Breccia, Garth Ennis, Bill Sienkiewicz, Yoshitaka Amano, Junji Ito, Min-Woo Hyung, Masakazu Yamaguchi, Kohta Hirano, Yukito Kushiro, Jim Holdaway, Herge, Leo Baxendale, Kyle Baker, Gil Kane, Dudley D. Watkins, Davie Law, Jim Baikie, John Burns, Don Lawrence, Ron Embleton, Frank Hampson, John Buscema, Paul Gulacy, Jim Starlin, Berni Wrightson, Barry Smith, Alex Nino, Rudy Nebres, Frank Robbins, Milton Caniff, Nick Cardy, Jose Munoz and Carlos Sampayo, Winsor McCay, Jhonen Vasquez, Stan Drake, Russ Manning ------
CARTOONISTS: Ronald Searle, Arnold Roth, Jack Davis, Charles Adams, Will Elder, Ralph Steadman, Gerald Scarfe, Gary Larson, Bill Waterson, Gahan Wilson, Carl Giles,Wiley Miller, Mike Wiliams, Roy Raymonde, Trog, Steve Bell, Pont ---
ILLUSTRATORS: Frank Frazzetta, Robert McGinnis, Leo and Diane Dillon, James Bama, Barron Storey, Bob Peake ----
PAINTERS:Picasso, Egon Schielle, Gustav Klimt, Dante Garbiel Rosseti, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, George Grosz, Peter Howson ----------
SCULPTORS: Elizabeth Frink, Nikki de Saint-Phalle, Eduardo Paolozzi ---
DESIGNERS: Saul Bass, Maurice Binder, Henry Bumstead ------
FILM MAKERS: Orson Wells, Hayao Miyazaki, Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Powell and Pressburger, John Ford, Ken Anakin, John Carpenter, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Brad Bird, Beat Takashi, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Sergio Leone, Akira Kurosawa, Launder and Gilliat, Lindsay Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, Walter Hill, Quentin Tarrentino, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the Quay Brothers, Jan Svankmajer, Robert Rodriguez, Tim Burton, Takashi Mikke, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Tony Scott.
I'm looking for producers/directors/film companies interested in taking comic book properties or scripts I've created and developing them as film or TV.
My name is Rob Moran and I'm a writer/artist: these days I mainly write for comics but I have written film, radio and cable TV scripts, and a nationally syndicated comic strip.
Right now I'm working on the art for...
Bonesaw created, written, illustrated and coloured/painted by me...control freak or what?
As the weeks go by I will be posting art from the book to whet your appetite...to start you off check out the BONESAW file in my PICS section.
Who I'd like to meet: Other creators: writers, artists, publishers, directors, producers, filmmakers, creatures of the night...anyone with a unique perspective or creative insanity and the skills to bring the byblows of their twisted imagination to screechy, squirming life...and, of course, people who love my work so they grow to become my own personal Army of Darkness!
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hi there so glad to see you on my list, I love playing with photoshop too and your blue image just makes me want to mix and blend pictures together, too bad I lost the photoshop program i had
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I just handed off my new book to my first pre-reader. I've still got about 2 months of editing to do, but it's time to get some feedback on the story. I've begun line editing and if all goes well with this first read, I may be ahead of schedule for my October release!
Here's what people are saying about my novella, Monkey Love:
"John Paul Allen delivers well-drawn characters and emotional dynamite in this tale of dark suspense" - Scott Nicholson, author of They Hunger.
"One sadistic piece of work by one of the most talented new voices in dark fiction." - Karen Koehler, author of the Slayer series.
"Disturbing and intense, this story is a one-sit read that races, carrying you along to grim, uncharted terrain." - Lee Thomas, Bram Stoker Award-Winning author of Stained, Parish Damned and The Dust of Wonderland.
"From the first page, Monkey Love draws you into a surreal world that teeters on a disturbing balance of madness, eroticism, and obsession." David Niall Wilson, author of Deep Blue and Ancient Eyes.
"It's a wild ride, and I loved it from first page to last." - John R. Little, author of The Memory Tree and Placeholders.
"Exquisitely well-written, more than slightly twisted and compelling erotica for all horror readers." T.M. Wright, author of the forthcoming Bone Soup and Blue Canoe.
"Monkey Love is my first read by John Paul Allen and I can promise it won't be the last. Touching, peverse, oddly poignant and riddled with interesting questions about the nature of love and obsession, I can't recommend it enough. Monkey Love is the sort of tale that pushes the boundaries of comfortable and makes us question our own morals." - James A. Moore, author of Deeper and Blood Red.
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