New People...

[Agamemnon]

It seems their are a lot of new people around (I am one of them) so I thought this might be worthwhile for those who feel like using it. A place for introductions. Fill in the blanks.

NAME (or Alias):

WHERE YOU
WERE BORN:

PUBLISHED or UNPUBLISHED:

PASSTIME:

JOB/SCHOOL:

FAVORITE
MOVIES:

FAVORITE
COMIC BOOK:

FAVORITE
TV SHOWS:

WHO ARE SOME
OF YOUR
FAVORITE
WRITERS:

WHO ARE SOME
OF YOUR
FAVORITE
ARTISTS:

WHY ARE YOU
HERE?:

[Agamemnon]

NAME (Alias): William (Agamemnon)

WHERE YOU WERE BORN: Germany

PUBLISHED or UNPUBLISHED: Published, but not really. Nothing in the comic book (or even creative writing) field, just an academic essay, and just local. I have done some freelance photography for a few very small newspapers as well.

PASSTIME: I am hobby oriented—so much so that a full list would prove quite a challenge. Here are a few things: Writing, Soccer, Photography, AD&D 2nd Edition, and Mage Knight.

JOB/SCHOOL: I graduated from a small college in Maine with Degrees in English and Cultural Studies. I am currently a Graduate Student at Western Michigan University in O&M.

FAVORITE MOVIES: Seven Samurai, Kagemusha, Ikiru, Unforgiven, Full Metal Jacket, Memento, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Reservoir Dogs, Schindler’s List, Vertigo, Twilight Samurai

FAVORITE COMIC BOOK/GRAPHIC NOVELS: Maus I + II, The Dark Knight Returns, Wolverine (for the first time in years, lets see if it lasts), Lucifer

FAVORITE TV SHOWS: I don’t enjoy T.V.

WHO ARE SOME
OF YOUR
FAVORITE
WRITERS: Ursula K. LeGuin, Raymond Chandler, Frank Miller, Art Spiegelman

WHO ARE SOME
OF YOUR
FAVORITE
ARTISTS: Picasso, Art Spiegelman, Jim Lee

WHY ARE YOU
HERE?: Why not?

[amadarwin]

hmm, don't know if i ever did one of these:

Name: Amadarwin

Birthplace: Korea

Unpublished: but working on a few projects I plan to self publish

Pastime: Tons of hobbies, not enough time. Photography, Scuba Diving, City of Heroes, Fossil Hunting, Guitar, Singing, Drawing, Writing, Painting, Motorcyle Enthusiast, Football (watching and playing), Deadlands...

Job/school: Too boring to even give any credit here. Never went to college, only took one year of art class (have no idea why I waited so long)and have been self (and book) taught before and since. Trying to remedy that as I am way behind the curve of artists I feel I would have been peers with.

Favorite Movies: 5th Element, Leon, Goonies, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Shaun of the Dead, Reservoir Dogs, Very Bad Things...the list could go on and on as I've seen so many movies in my lifetime, even bad ones.

Favorite Comic/ Graphic Novel: None. It's been awhile since I've bought comics that could keep my interest. The last Graphic novel I bought was Invincible trade 1 and it was pretty good. Other than that, Dark Knight Returns comes to mind.

Favorite Writers: Stephen King, Kyle Mills, Chris Claremont and a few others I cannot remember

Favorite Artists: DaVinci, Brom, Aspiri, Art Adams, Jim Lee, Nate, Cory, Albrecht Duhrer, Rockwell, Vallejo, Patrick Nagel, Pep, Alex Ross, Tim Bradstreet, Frazetta, Anneth Sairyn, Travis Charest, Geiger, Rojo, Sorayama...wow, I could go on and on with this one. I'll stop here though since names are starting to slip my mind.

Why are you here: I'm here to make the world a better place, one bullet at a time.

[Vendetta]

NAME (or Alias): Robert A. Hicks, Jr.
AKA Vendetta

WHERE YOU
WERE BORN: San Andreas, California

PUBLISHED or UNPUBLISHED: D@MN YOU!!!! WHY MUST YOU MOCK ME???

PASSTIME: Role-playing games

JOB/SCHOOL: Both, actually (Teacher and going to school)

FAVORITE
MOVIES: Top five, in no particular order
Star Wars Trilogy (What? There was a second trilogy? I don't believe you)
Braveheart
Lord of the Rings
Gone With the Wind
Tombstone

FAVORITE
COMIC BOOK: Top 5, in no particular order
Ultimate Spider-man
Daredevil (man, I love Alex Maleev's art)
Justice League circa 1990 (the Kieth Giffen and J.M. DeMatties era)
Dark Knight Returns (The incredible Frank Miller one... uh? there was a second one?...)
Ultimates
(I am currently loving what's going on in Wonder Woman, Flash and Adventures of Superman right now though... I'm hooked)

FAVORITE
TV SHOWS: Smallville and Who's Line is it Anyway?

WHO ARE SOME
OF YOUR
FAVORITE
WRITERS: Greg Rucka tops a list of excellent writers, but right now, he's got me hooked

WHO ARE SOME
OF YOUR
FAVORITE
ARTISTS: Finch, Maleev, and (Greg) Land are currently topping my list... but Maleev's been up there for a while now.

WHY ARE YOU
HERE?: because... I ... I... have no where else to go

[MetaMan]

NAME (or Alias): Terry (MetaMan) Ryan

WHERE YOU
WERE BORN: South suburb of Chicago

PUBLISHED or UNPUBLISHED: Unpublished. Haven't had much time to work on anything.

PASSTIME: But when I do have the time... I write, design (graphic design), produce and/or listen to music.

JOB/SCHOOL: Retail/FINAL year of school (The Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago).

FAVORITE
MOVIES: Spider-Man 2, X2, Hulk (one of a few that liked it), Kill Bill vol.'s 1 & 2, Ocean's 11 & 12, Lord of the Rings.

FAVORITE
COMIC BOOK: Astonishing X-Men, Incredible Hulk, Supreme Power, New Avengers (I can stomach the change) and Ultimates 2.

FAVORITE
TV SHOWS: Don't really watch much tv, but the few shows I do watch are Smallville, the Tonight Show and reruns of X-Files.

WHO ARE SOME
OF YOUR
FAVORITE
WRITERS: Peter David (welcome back to 'Hulk', PAD!), JMS (except on Amazing Spider-Man), Joss Whedon (doing an excellent job on Astonishing X-Men).

WHO ARE SOME
OF YOUR
FAVORITE
ARTISTS: Dale Keown-- even though he isn't doing much these days, Jim Lee, Kaare Andrews, John Cassady, Stuart Immonem (sp?).

WHY ARE YOU
HERE?: Comfortable setting... Seems like a nice place to sit back and relax... Why not?

[web crawler]

Name: Samir Goel (Alias) I guess I might as well say that I'm Spiderman but I go by the name Web Crawler--yes, this is in honorum of Spidey.

Born: I was born in a small town in the interrior of British Columbia Canada known as Revelstoke. Beautiful little town by the way--there are Mountains and water close at hand. In fact there is a place known as Three Valley Gap not too far away from Revelstoke.

Published/Unpublished: I honestly don't know which. I have works posted on sites like these would this count? I also had a few of my poems submitted and accepted to be published in the National Library of Poetry but haven't seen any of my work in them. The kicker is that my Mom said that she purchased an Anthology--Beneath the Harvest Moon but never received it. Anyway, I'll leave it up to you to decide, but I guess you could say a work in progress.

Past Time: It seems like I am having more and more these days as I have just finished my education for now and actually had a bit of an anxiety attack so I am at home recovering and loving what I am presently doing. I am working with William to nurture our creative desires while having the privilege to participate on these wonderful sites where I have come across many talented people who i would like to share our interests with. I used to work out religiously but that went out the window and both my emotional and physical health went rapidily with it. I guess you know the morale of this story.

Job/School: I finished my BA in Criminology last December from Simon Fraser University. I also have a Certificate of Liberal Arts. At one time I was working towards becoming a teacher but then decided against it. Now I am hoping to eventually get something in my field but will take any job that comes my way once I get better. After all beggers can't be chosers.

Favorite Movie: Unfortunately I can never fully pin down a favorite movie as I have an eclectic taste. I usually like any movie that has a well written storyline (i.e. Citizen Kane and the Classics, as well as anything modern). Then again there are times where I look for senseless mayham such as many action movies and great outrageous soft porn flicks like American Pie, Girl Next Door etc.

Favorite Comic: I guess my alias says it all. This would have to be the Amazing Spiderman although I like many other superheroes as well. The majority of my comic collection is the Amazing Spiderman and boy did i buy at the right time! These suckers are just ridiculously costly now adays, although I have seen some fantastic deals on ebay from time to time.

Favorite T.V.: same type of response given to movie. I watch game shows, comedies (animated/non animated), dramas and yes, those damn annoying reality shows etc. Nevertheless, I don't spend hours and hours in front of the tube, I get bored too quickly if I do. Usually an hour or two tops, but even then not that often in the week. I would guess that I watch about 3-5 hours a week of t.v. My total takes a big hit if I start watching my superhero cartoons!

Favorite Writer: Grrrr! Anyone who can keep me entertained as I would refer to myself as a lazy reader. I don't like to read that much, but when I do I can get engrossed in a well written book. As much as I would like to ask why does J.K. Rowling get mountains and mountains of praise, her Harry Potter does keep me reading. This is not to say I think that her book is head and shoulders over others but rather I am giving her credit where it is due. I also liked reading both the Spiderman and Incredible Hulk adaptation to the movie. Finally, I love classic literature from well known writers (i.e. Shakespeare etc.--I bet you knew that was coming!)

Favorite Artist: Sorry folks, this is rather difficult to answer as both writing and art are something which appeals to people on a person to person basis. Therefore, I would say that regardless of style, as long as I like it I like it. I generally don't care for a liney based style of art work such as Sal Bascama. At times I don't like Breyfogle's art either, but that's not to say that there weren't pictures that I liked from these to artists. And then again, there was a painting with 3 huge black stripes (nothing else) hanging in the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada that was a multi million dollar work and I thought what the heck is this sh**?

I think that I got most of these, but I have a sneaky feeling that I could have missed something. If I did be gentle! William this was an excellent idea. I enjoyed taking part and wish that I had done so earlier but better late than never! I hope that the responses keep coming in.

Sincerely,

Samir Goel

[Bruce Lee]

NAME (or Alias): Loston Wallace

WHERE YOU
WERE BORN: I was born in the small coal mining town of Clintwood, Virginia. I lived there for the first 21 years of my life. I've since lived in Washington DC, New Jersey, and now make my home in North Carolina.

PUBLISHED or UNPUBLISHED: CAVEWOMAN: KLYDE & MERIEM; Various issues of ELVIRA, MISTRESS OF THE DARK; Various BATMAN & SUPERMAN DC Comics License Coloring/activity books; CATWOMAN: LIFE & TIMES OF A FELINE FATALE; Over 60 Roleplaying books and box sets, including DEADLANDS, SHADOWRUN, BATTLETECH, INDIANA JONES, & STAR WARS stuff. My first published work was a map in the novel CONAN THE ROGUE, by John M. Roberts. My second credit was a map in the Roman mystery novel, SPQR, which was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award (the book, not my map. LOL). One of the weirdest ways I've been published is the Deadlands Poker Deck, where I designed poker playing cards with a western-horror motiff. My favorite piece of art I ever did was a Batman I drew for my grandmother when I was 4 years old. She gave me a kiss for it--the best payment I've ever received for any work of art.

PASSTIME: Former martial artist; amateur tournament fighter; I throw a mean shuriken to this day! Penciljack; City of Heroes; movies, etc; Recently I joined a gym to get myself into better physical shape. Being a desk jockey and soda drinker doesn't exactly make one Charles Atlas. I'll never be in the great physical condition I was when I was 18, but I'm trying to be the healthiest 35 year old I can be.

JOB/SCHOOL: Attended the JOE KUBERT SCHOOL OF ART. I've been a free lance artist since, working professionally since the mid 90s. In 2001, I did my first comic book, after years of illustrating for roleplaying games. Currently, I'm working on a creator owned pulp comic that I am pencilling and co-plotting.

FAVORITE
MOVIES: King Kong; Forbidden Planet; 50s sci-fi flicks; HarryHausen flicks; Universal monster and Hammer Horror Films flicks; Turner Classic Movie flicks; etc. Evil Dead to Citizen Kane, folks.

FAVORITE
COMIC BOOK: Xenozoic Tales; Gold Key's Magnus Robot Fighter and Turok; Astonishing X-men; Hulk; Hellboy; Conan; Classic Lee/Kirby FFs; Kirby Kamandi; Nexus; EC Comics from the 50s. I have a taste for the "silver age" stuff, but I like a fair amount of modern comics too. If WIZARD likes it, there's a good chance I don't. LOL.

FAVORITE
TV SHOWS: American Chopper; American Hot Rod; Monk; History Channel's Mail Call; Myth Busters; Ubber geek stuff like X-Files; Babylon 5; Fire Fly; Buffy; Original Trek; Kolchak; Andy Griffith Show (cuz I'm just that cool. LOL);

WHO ARE SOME
OF YOUR
FAVORITE
WRITERS: Roger Stern; Alan Moore; Mark Schultz; Robert E. Howard; H.P. Lovecraft; Edgar R. Burroughs; H.G. Wells; Jules Verne; John Maddox Roberts, Tom Deitz; Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison; "Doc" Smith; Alfred Bester; Robert Bloch; Clark Ashton Smith; Pulp writers; Joss Whedon; JMS;

WHO ARE SOME
OF YOUR
FAVORITE
ARTISTS: Wallace Wood, John Buscema, Al Williamson, Frank Frazetta, Mark Schultz, Doug Wildey, Bernie Wrightson, Don Newton, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Will Eisner, Alex Toth, Dave Stevens, Bruce Timm, Brian Bolland, Mike Mignola, Darwyn Cooke, Lee Weeks, Gene Colon, Mike Zeck, Walt Simonson, Franklin Booth, Joseph C. Cole, Roy Krenkel, Arthur Rackham, Herge, Alex Raymond, Hal Foster, N.C. Wyeth, Norman Rockwell, Gil Kane, Virgil Finlay, Frank R. Paul, Alphonse Mucha, John Romita, Budd Root, Frank Cho, the Professor, and Mary Anne.

WHY ARE YOU
HERE?: Trying to help other artists and writers, and enjoying my own education along the way.

[I Write]

My TURN !!!

NAME (or Alias): Efren Hernandez

WHERE YOU
WERE BORN: Jalisco, Mexico. Yes, I am Mexican .

PUBLISHED or UNPUBLISHED: Unpublished thus far, but I am still young, my time will come .

PASSTIME: Writing comics, movies and screen plays as well as playing soccer, reading, drawing, painting, and doing kid stuff.

JOB/SCHOOL: I attend Brentwood HighSchool. (10th Grade)

FAVORITE
MOVIES: Every movie ever invented is amazing!

FAVORITE
COMIC BOOK: Dont read much comic books, I prefer to write them myself.

FAVORITE
TV SHOWS: Dont see much TV. The Simpsons is the only thing I watch.

WHO ARE SOME
OF YOUR
FAVORITE
WRITERS: The guys who write the Simpsons. The guy who write Marvels.

WHO ARE SOME
OF YOUR
FAVORITE
ARTISTS: Jim Lee, David Finch, and Marc Silvestri.

WHY ARE YOU
HERE?: Because I heard it was a fun place to learn and meet other cool writers.

[Hankinstien]

NAME (or Alias): Mike "Hankinstien"

WHERE YOU
WERE BORN: Suburbs of Dallas, Texas

PUBLISHED or UNPUBLISHED: unpublished so far, but I kinda just started this writing stuff, so I can't expect it to happen immediately!

PASSTIME: I don't know if this counts as a hobby, but I'm a professional musician, I play bass primarily (among other things) and have studied classical and jazz pretty extensively. Other than that, I like Comics, movies, good books, anime, etc. Pretty much any art form.

JOB/SCHOOL: I'm almost done with my undergrad from the University of North Texas, and I work as an intern for the jr. High youth group at a church here.

FAVORITE
MOVIES: There's so many! Cast Away, Garden State, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Equilibrium, Minority Report, The Matrix (first one), Tombstone, most Superhero movies, Signs, The Passion, Road to Perdition, I could name more... it depends on when you ask me, also.

FAVORITE
COMIC BOOK: Ultimate Spider-Man, Powers, Planetary, Sin City, the old Alan Moore MiracleMan, Batman/Superman, The Long Halloween, Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns (obviously), the list goes on......

FAVORITE
TV SHOWS: I don't watch much, except for some anime stuff like, Cowboy Bebop, Witch Hunter Robin, Samurai Shamploo, Scrapped Princess, etc. I also really dig Smallville

WHO ARE SOME
OF YOUR
FAVORITE
WRITERS: Brian Bendis, Jeph Loeb, Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Grant Morrison

WHO ARE SOME
OF YOUR
FAVORITE
ARTISTS: Frank Miller, John Cassady, Jim Lee, Alan Davis (in the 80s), Tim Sale, etc.

WHY ARE YOU
HERE?: My goal is to get published somewhere (anywhere) before my internship is over in two years. It doesn't have to comics, could be short stories, or anything really. So I'm gonna continue to post stuff here until I feel like I can start submitting to companies! This place is pretty cool, theres great feedback, and everybody here seems pretty cool. Thanks for evertyhing so far!

[mwhite]

NAME (or Alias): Marcus White

WHERE YOU
WERE BORN: Houston, Texas

PUBLISHED or UNPUBLISHED: Unpublished, but working on it. I just lost my artist for the project I was working on because of family problems on his end. Any volunteers? :P

PASSTIME: Does sleep count? I write a lot. I read a lot. I watch lots and lots of movies.

JOB/SCHOOL: Professional sleeper

FAVORITE
MOVIES: There's no possible way I could make a list with all my favorite movies, but since you asked: The Princess Bride, Willow, Personal Velocity, Adaptation, Shichinin no samurai, Amelie, Time Bandits, True Romance, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, Werewolf in London, Amores Perros, Raise The Red Lantern, Trainspotting, Paper Moon, Apocalypse Now, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Raising Arizona, Ghost Dog, Ran, Easy Rider, Hedwig And The Angry Inch, Hairspray, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Rebel Without a Cause, Gummo, Yojimbo, Barton Fink, Fight Club, Unforgiven, Mystery Train, Reservoir Dogs, Big Trouble In Little China, Akira, Ghost In The Shell, City of Lost Children, The Hidden Fortress, City of God...


FAVORITE
COMIC BOOK: Anything by Paul Pope...

FAVORITE
TV SHOWS: Carnivale, The Wire, The Twiglight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The West Wing...

WHO ARE SOME
OF YOUR
FAVORITE
WRITERS: Kurt Vonnegut, W.S. Burroughs, Grant Morrison, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, John Stienbeck, Paul Pope, Camus, Ralph Ellison, Frank Miller, Alan Ginsberg...

WHO ARE SOME
OF YOUR
FAVORITE
ARTISTS: Enki Bilal, Mucha, Dave Curd, Bengal, Moebius, Darwyn Cooke, Lee Weeks, Nivbed, Guardino (sp? He does Blacksad), Travis Charest, Josh Middleton, Paul Pope, David Mack, Eiichiro Oda, Frazetta... I could go on, but it would take too long...

WHY ARE YOU
HERE?: I joined this site when I was in high school around when it first started with the vague notion of wanting to write comic books and used to visit this site religously. I even moderated this forum for a while. Now I mostly come here (penciljack proper) when I get bored and to catch up with old friends.