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| THE HISTORY OF MY RELATIONSHIP WITH COMIC BOOK ART AND SKETCHING I started reading comics (Adventure Comics #267 - Legion of Super-Heroes) when I was 4 ... it was the first thing I ever read on my own. I remember the issue and my mother sitting next to me carefully not interupting me when I was sounding out the words ... it's one of the earliest memories I vividly remember. From that day forward I was hooked on comic books and the LSH. Around the same time I began drawing. My mother would give me paper and crayons to draw which would keep me occupied during air raid drills (early 1960's) while my brother, two sisters and I huddled under the kitchen counter and my mother continued to mow the lawn and verbally fought with the roving MP's because she wouldn't go inside. Hey, she said if they dropped the bomb ... at least the yard was looking good. (Welcome to suburbia in the early 60's living near an active Nike missle base). Funny what you remember ... By the mid 60's I continued to collect the LSH and became a Marvel junkie with the F4 and X-Men ... I continued to draw as well until I finished college ... When I went into the military, I stopped drawing but continued to quietly and shamefully collect comics. When I got out I met and married my wife and kids ... and got my oldest son into reading and collecting comics (or was it he who kept me collecting). Years rolled by, I never went back to drawing, got sick and stopped collecting comics ... I got sick ... was out of work for 6 months and got into a new show called the OC which featured a kid who was into comics and during a couple of the episodes they mentioned the Legion ... next thing I knew, I was back collecting and collected every back issue of the LSH and X-Men I missed ... so my love affair with comics was back on ... Then my younger son got married and my first gradchild was born ... I went to the nearest comic book store the day after he was born, bought every issue that came out that month, wrote a note to him and sealed them and the note in a box for him to open when he is 21 ... I sat down later that week and drew his picture ... next thing I knew I expanded my comic book horizons and began drawing ... again ... I started to draw on the commuter train I take to NYC for work ... and now I draw all the time ... one of my favorite lines is that I'm in more homes and garbage cans in the tri-state area then any other artist ... because I always give away my drawings to kids and folks who stop and take an interest in my drawings ... I am uploading drawings I've been working on over the last four years ... Some of them I think are good ... some ok ... some of them are poor at best ... some of them are mine ... some (many) of them are images I've seen other artists do and was so impressed I had to somehow experience their techniques by doing them myself ... I love to draw and a love the vast expanse of comic book art ... and the great artist and writers that "live" there through their work ... I hope some of you enjoy my scratch art. |
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- Current Residence: Dark Side of the Moon
- Interests: My Family, Drawing, Movies, Comic Books, Sports, Politics and Computer Gaming
- Favourite movie: Best Years of Our Lives, Dark Knight (s), Deer Hunter, The Natural, Anything Capra, too many to list
- Favourite band or musician: Anything from ABBA to ZZ Top
- Favourite genre of music: everything to a degree
- Favourite artist: J. Lee, M. Choi, E. Benes, Gavin Green, Malov, J Scott Campbell, M. Turner, E. Bagley,
- Favourite poet or writer: Gail Simone, Michael Bendis, Leon Uris, S. King
- Favourite photographer: Annie Leibovitz
- Favourite style of art: Fusion
- Operating System: whatever Microsoft abortion is available
- MP3 player of choice: IPOD Classic 160 gig
- Favourite game: EA Grand Slam Tennis for the Wii
- Favourite gaming platform: Wii
- Favourite cartoon character: 40's/50's Bugs Bunny, The X-Men 90's version
- Personal Quote: It is what it is ... OR ... It's not having what you want it wanting, what you have
- Tools of the Trade: a 0.3 mechanical pencil and a piece of paper
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Maude Tourret
very nice gallery here. Keep on
drawing and always love what you
do. Thank you again.
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NOFX
I was so taken by the style I had to try to draw it myself.
I really love your work.
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"So don't expect the best you won't be disappointed when you take a bite and watch the worm crawl back inside..."
NOFX
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Thanks for the
Greatly Appreciated
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