A little bit about me:
I'm an aspiring comic book creator and lifelong fan of the medium. I'm currently in the process of finishing up my portfolio and putting together submissions packages for the first couple of books I'd like to find a nice cozy publishing home for. As soon as I can I will be posting some samples here, so keep an eye open. Also, thanks to this very site I just landed a gig reviewing comics for www.PopSyndicate.com!

I'm interested in further legitimacy and growth of the art form, and the undiluted creative freedom it allows. And telling a damn good story, of course.

My biggest influences:
(in no particular order) Peter Milligan, Scott McCloud, Will Eisner, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Brian Wood, Sam Keith, Carla Speed McNeil, Colleen Doran, Rick Veitch, Paul Pope, David Lapham, Warren Ellis, Eddie Campbell, James Kochalka...

My favorite reads at the moment:
Ex Machina, Exterminators, Fables, DMZ, the Boys, Rex Libris, the Walking Dead, Local, Hellblazer, Sock Monkey, Mouse Guard, Phonogram, Y the Last Man, Powers, Testament, Desolation Jones...

My all-time favorites:
Shade the Changing Man(Milligan's run), Enigma,the Invisibles, Transmetropolitan, the Maxx, Stray Bullets, Finder, A Distant Soil, Optic Nerve, Preacher, Promethea, Doom Patrol(Morrison's run), Seekers, Kid Eternity, anything by Veitch...

So yeah, I'm a Vertigo junkie. What can I say? It's what I grew up on. For MY money it's always had a higher quality to crap ratio than most other publishers. I do actually read a wide variety of stuff, though. I'm not too snooty for superheroes or too close-minded for indie books or manga.