Whitechapel - Introduce Yourselves

Introduce Yourselves

2007-11-27T10:29:04-08:00

Welcome to Whitechapel.

The best way to start these things is to get everyone saying hello. So please introduce yourselves in this thread, adding a photo if you've got one (trust me -- the web works much better when people see that there are real people on the other end of a post).

We don't insist on real names here. I find it helps, but, frankly, if you want to be a completely fictional invention of yourself, go right ahead. Hell, I've even known people who have started out fictional and then become their own invention.

Hello. I'm Warren.

-- W

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2007-11-28T00:52:03-08:00

Rich Johnston. Daily copywriter. Weekly gossipcolumnist. Occasional graphicnovelist.

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2007-11-28T01:21:07-08:00

Mark Sweeney, colorist.

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2007-11-28T01:50:12-08:00

William Christensen, E-I-C Avatar.

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2007-11-28T02:53:54-08:00

Paul Duffield. Man of action involving little or no movement! Artist on Freakangels! General friend of happy geekery! I um, only have this photo of me that isn't years old. I promise I'm not actually a walking wacom advert.

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2007-11-28T06:33:40-08:00

Tony Lee. Writer. I'm the one on the left.

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2007-11-28T06:35:23-08:00

Mike Wolfer: Writer, artist, Rob Zombie stunt double. I'm the one wearing the white helmet. It's the only way to properly protect myself from Warren stealing my soul as I work on GRAVEL.

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2007-11-28T07:21:04-08:00

Hello, everyone, I'm Ariana Osborne. I'm what passes for a mechanic around here, and I generally look absolutely nothing like this:

They don't often let the mechanic outside, really. But this is pretty much the only photo I've got where I'm not crying because Warren's "just had an idea". So there you are.

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2007-11-28T07:42:31-08:00

Hi everyone, my name is Robert Clark. I'm currently a 33 year old college student, husband and father of 2 children living in hell, otherwise known as Albuquerque, New Mexico. I'm in college studying to become a high school English teacher. I hope to be able to warp, I mean mold young minds. I'm a huge fan of Warren's work and have been reading his stuff for quite a while now. I hope to have a chance to participate on this board here and there.

Talk to you all later.

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2007-11-28T07:47:43-08:00

Bill Aguiar

ex-CBG columnist on manga, writer of hobby gaming stuff, manga reviewer, occasional small press publisher (also in hobby gaming) and lots of other little crap...

CBG columns and Hobby gaming stuff: www.cabil.com
Manga reviews: www.prosperosmanga.com

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2007-11-28T07:49:41-08:00

Good morning, all. I'm Sean. Low-grade PR mandarin, very occasional comic writer of sorts (big up to Thunder Road, y'all!), looking forward to seeing the team of Mssrs. Ellis and Duffield break through my kneejerk steampunk fatigue with this new endeavor.

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2007-11-28T07:52:55-08:00

Hi, I'm Kat. Some people call me preternaturally happy, others just call me a freak. At least two people have been fooled by my innocent exterior.

I enjoy the color pink, saying the most inappropriate things imaginable, black cats, reading, ball pits and other assorted and sundry things. I am especially fond of putting ribbons in my hair and walking around in stompy Doc Martens with a skirt on. I see absolutely no reason that I can't be dangerous and pretty at the same time. That sentence basically sums up everything you need to know about me. :)

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2007-11-28T07:53:22-08:00

Greetings. Jeff Patterson here. Broadcaster. Occasional artist/writer.

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2007-11-28T07:56:56-08:00

Good morning. Ish.

Geoffrey D. Wessel. I'm nobody yet. Hope to be soon. Working on some comics projects, but then aren't we all? Mostly I just bullshit on my LiveJournal with flash fictions and other commentary about comics, sports, and life in general. I live in Indianapolis, IN, USA, am married, have a stepson, a daughter with autism, and a wee son who just blew up our microwave yesterday. Yeah, it's a fun life. Ish.

And this is me. You lucky lucky people.

--- Geoff

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2007-11-28T07:57:49-08:00

My name's Dan. I live in London, but I'm from Texas. These days I'm a - whatchacallit - a house husband. Like John Lennon was. I have cookies in the oven right now, no joke, as a treat for my wife when she gets home from grad school. It's a good life.

This is what I look like when I'm climbing a spiral staircase and you're holding a camera about five feet above me.

--d

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2007-11-28T08:01:36-08:00

Isabel M, semi-useless college student, occasionally an activist, sometimes opinionated and probably misspelled.

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2007-11-28T08:12:21-08:00

I'm Michael Furious.

I'm an artist whose work is often compared to people I don't think I have any business being compared to, but thanks, right?

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2007-11-28T08:12:54-08:00

Hi, I'm Gino, real name Laurent Queyssi.
Translator and writer (bande dessinée, novels).

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2007-11-28T08:13:22-08:00

Steven Clark. Geek. Reader. Um, Law-talking-guy in remission (it seemed like a good idea at the time.) Australian.

[Apparently I really do look like this sometimes.]

I'm working on a PhD. The Real World™ turned out to be just like Warren promised. 'cept mine seemed to come without filthy assistants. So I gave it back ... to have more time to watch it ~~bleed~~ ~~scream~~ unfold.

I'm a sometime graphic novel ~~junkie~~ reader, rather than contributor. For now at least, anyway.

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2007-11-28T08:13:31-08:00

Hiya. I'm Dave, from Omaha. I'll be graduating from college in May with a degree in Journalism. I'd like to say I was inspired by Spider Jerusalem. And hell, maybe I was. I'll also have a minor in creative writing.

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2007-11-28T08:17:10-08:00

Jack Tamburri, playwright, director, and musician in Chicago.

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2007-11-28T08:18:08-08:00

Alex Wison here. Writer, actor. Carrboro, NC.

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2007-11-28T08:22:15-08:00

Hi all ^_^

Looking forward to seeing the Ellis/Duffield comic baby very much! I'm Emma and I'm rubbish at finding photos of myself....*rummages around hard drive*

Paul - you LURVE your wacom pic. hehe. It is a bit awesome though!

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2007-11-28T08:24:01-08:00

Hartwell. Writer, lover, filmmaker. Soon of Los Angeles.

I can't get the picture to work. And that breaks your heart.

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2007-11-28T08:26:18-08:00

I'm James Roden, and I'm an artist and designer from Indiana

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2007-11-28T08:27:18-08:00

Shawn Clark, former journalist, current government bureaucrat and grad student.

I’ve been a lurker on every public message board/social network thing Warren’s done for the last 10 years or so (old school cred!), so I figured I’d keep the streak alive.

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2007-11-28T08:28:18-08:00

Morgan Jeske

Comics. Illustrator/Writer. Teaching assistant. Vancouver, BC Canada.

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2007-11-28T08:30:07-08:00

Maddie Greene, writer and editor in fields unrelated to anything we'll speak of here.

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2007-11-28T08:32:06-08:00

Dan Schaffer. Writer, scribbler, whateverer. I work in comics and film. Based in London.

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2007-11-28T08:34:16-08:00

name: fogus
occupation: software
hoping to get into a phd program next fall for computer science. living in the dc/metro area. fan of hard scifi and retrocomputing. have never written a thing that anyone would want to read.

i'm on the left

-m

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2007-11-28T08:34:57-08:00

Well, you're getting my online moniker although I assure you I am quite real. I tend to piss some people off greatly so witch hunting my name in order to cause me trouble seems to be a hobby to some so I where as I don't hide, I also don't announce. Most people who care know who I am and I shall leave it at that. But hello to everyone. =)

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2007-11-28T08:37:53-08:00

Hello all. My name is Pete. I write and play music as part of an acoustic duo in London, and I DJ a bit too. Neither of these things are any good for paying rent or bills, so I also work in an office, which isn't at all exciting.

I look like this.

(Not the cat.)

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2007-11-28T08:39:25-08:00

Hullo.
I'm yatt. Jeremy works too though.
I currently take up space Pasadena, CA, USA.
Avid reader of comics and speculactive fiction, I earn my daily shekel as an IT consultant for various evil legal entities.

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2007-11-28T08:39:35-08:00

Robin LeBlanc, writer, graphic designer, film editor and insomniac who is looking at getting in to advertising.

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2007-11-28T08:41:17-08:00

Mike Isenberg. I manage a warehouse for Heavy Metal Magazine, and work part time at the comic shop Modern Myths in Northampton, MA. Slowly but surely trying to break into comic book publishing. Recently landed a freelance writing gig doing the jacket copy for one of Marvel's hardcovers.

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2007-11-28T08:41:22-08:00

I'm Huw Davies, also known as Lem.
I'm one of those Webcomic people. You can tell by the permanent look of shame.

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2007-11-28T08:41:25-08:00

Rowan Cota. Formerly of San Francisco, now bumming around the UK. Writer. Corsetier. Photographer. Other things as the mood takes me.

I have a livejournal under the same name I use here.

And I look like this:

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2007-11-28T08:42:10-08:00

Brendan McGinley, comic writer, artist and intermittent comedian, sometimes even on purpose.

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2007-11-28T08:42:37-08:00

I'm Hank Kuhfeldt, I write LRP/LARP/Interactive Theatre, (I think i got all the regional versions there,) as well as occasionally do gaming news on www.corpnews.com.

I tend to be interested in more things than I have hours in the day for.

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2007-11-28T08:44:44-08:00

Hi, I'm Ross.
My hobbies include: Forbidden sciences, ghost fighting, and urban spelunking.

myspace.com/ponykf

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2007-11-28T08:44:53-08:00

Paul W, professional geek, part-time university lecturer (teaching animation, video, web stuff...) Live in the north of England, although if I could find an excuse to go back to Vancouver, I probably would. Like Shawn, I'm a constant lurker/stalker of Warren's online presence.

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2007-11-28T08:45:59-08:00

Hi, I'm Cam. Web developer and designer.

I look like this:

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2007-11-28T08:46:29-08:00

I forgot to introduce myself on here. Hello, I am Danny Ferbert and I'm essentially a slacker with delusions of grandeurs.

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2007-11-28T08:47:12-08:00

I'm Gareth. I live in China (Xi'an, usually, but right now Wenzhou, for a couple of weeks, going where the work is) and take photographs, a lot, read a bit, when I get chance, and teach, at times, to pay the bills.

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2007-11-28T08:47:53-08:00

I'm J Unrau, writer, traveller, (occasional) teacher, and the lowest level librarian you can be. I lived in China for a while.

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2007-11-28T08:49:40-08:00

I'm Christian Otholm, I'm Danish and I do nothing. I post under Solario, because of the simple fact that these other internet people might recognize that name and not my actual name. I might actually end up as a postman in the following couple of months. I buy comics. Lots of comics.

This is my stupid mug.

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2007-11-28T08:49:56-08:00

Hello all! I'm Matt Sheret, semi-employed graduate in London.

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2007-11-28T08:50:04-08:00

Patty Cryan - retailer, reader, occasional copyeditor, currently freezing my ass off and looking for something to burn.

The past & future me:

http://www.mikescomics.com

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2007-11-28T08:50:17-08:00

I'm Scott, a lowly government worker with unimagined omniscience living in the Land of the Rat.

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2007-11-28T08:51:10-08:00

Cassie a.k.a. Therendy. 27. Gemini. Aspiring Writer. Bartender. Pianist. Mother. Agitator. Bibliophile. Comic Book Junkie. Punk Rock Lover. Movie Fanatic. Video Game Addict.
Anything else I forgot to mention?

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2007-11-28T08:51:21-08:00

I would be the bald guy on the left. Antiquarian book dealer. Mark Twain geek. Occasional writer. More here...
myspace.com/dannelke

- Barney Dannelke

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2007-11-28T08:51:51-08:00

What's the point of having a facebook account if I can't open it to find some pictures of myself!!! whatever...

I'm Chantal, and yes, it's as French as it sounds. I'm trapped in my country with people who think that comicbooks only come from Belgium. I'm an English student and when I don't read comics I spent time drawing and writing some.

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2007-11-28T08:52:37-08:00

My name is John. I do nothing except sit at the front desk of the hotel I work at. My hobbies include sleep and the ridicule of people.

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2007-11-28T08:55:19-08:00

I'm Crystal, currently stuck in a dead end job so that I can pay my way through school. I should talk to Robert up there, as I'm wanting to go into Education, in particular High School English and Theater. I occasionally act when I'm able to, been in fun plays like Phantom and Jekyll and Hyde. I'm also teeny...4'11", and you can see from the picture.

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2007-11-28T08:58:18-08:00

second bleeding attempt. I would be the bald guy on the left... and the right. Antiquarian book dealer. Mark Twain geek. Occasional writer. More here...

myspace.com/dannelke

- Barney Dannelke

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2007-11-28T09:01:11-08:00

Hiya. I'm Jon - unemployed, layabout bum.

As proof, here's me sitting in a park, drunk as a lord by midday:

Nice to meet you all.

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2007-11-28T09:05:59-08:00

Keren Pedersen, Israeli-American, Jerusalem resident, student, soon-to-be soldier, amateur artist and writer.

Also a big fan of Transmetropolitan and genres whose names end in "punk".

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2007-11-28T09:07:13-08:00

My name is Jason, I'm a huge nerd.

But professionally, I'm a web designer/developer, student of media at SIU Edwardsville in Illinois, E-commerce solutions consultant to a shoe company, prolific blogger, music junkie (2 of my 4 blogs are about music), singer for local up-and-coming band The Orbz and all-around weirdo.

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2007-11-28T09:07:39-08:00

My name is Carrie. I sign up for these things, and then usually get bored and/or forget it exists after a month or so. Not to say that Warren ever bores me. I'm a freestyle artist, I like tapping into the subconscious and letting things fall out, be it words, music, art, or dance. Sure structure is great, but the unknown, spontaneous is fucking awesome. I love alliterations, screaming guitars, scientific theory, and unmentionables.

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2007-11-28T09:08:08-08:00

The name is Michael, and here's me. I'm the one to the right.

A pleasure to meet you all.

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2007-11-28T09:08:46-08:00

My name is Kim.

I write; mostly erotica and horror but I also have a home writing a column at PopThought.com. On PopThought, which is run by a fellow by the name of Alex Ness, we write on Pop Culture in regards to comics, literature of all kinds, games, television, film...and the list persists but anchors itself in media. I am currently consulting with the IT guy and learning the ins and outs of the site but I expect my first article(s) to be posted up over there by the last week in February 2008.

...and a few other places where you can find me on the net:

flickr

My personal page on MySpace

The SinChildren MySpace page

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2007-11-28T09:14:36-08:00

Hi, im Syd. (I feel like im at a AA meeting...again). Im a comic reader and a net lurker.

Im the cute one on the right.

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2007-11-28T09:14:42-08:00

I'm (see username), an American currently living in London, and enjoying it thoroughly. I'm studying English and Philosophy at King's College, but dear Christ is the British university system confusing. The coolest picture I have of myself is so because of the person standing next to me:

No, I can't believe it actually happened either.

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2007-11-28T09:16:39-08:00

Hello, I'm Mark Seifert, Avatar Press creative director.

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2007-11-28T09:18:33-08:00

Good morning.

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2007-11-28T09:19:19-08:00

Hello, my name is Todd, formerly of various places in the US, currently living in London.

I am a scientist by trade, and I look roughly like this:

I will most likely spend the vast majority of my time here lurking.

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2007-11-28T09:20:59-08:00

I'm Christina (Netheus).
I live in a theocratic state in the the middle of America.
I just graduated with my B.A., and I'm working on my Masters.

Oh, and I live in the Mountains. Sometimes I mean that literally.

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2007-11-28T09:22:34-08:00

Hello, my name is Mike Black. I just woke up, and currently my lighter doesn't want to work. I feel like Burgess Meredith at the end of that Twilight Zone episode.

And I wish I had a picture with Alan Moore too.

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2007-11-28T09:23:34-08:00

My name's Erik Hale. I live in Connecticut in the states and attend college at UConn Stamford. Just reading through these it's nice to see so many talented and interesting people here.

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2007-11-28T09:25:04-08:00

I'm Charles, or Charlie, depending on what mood you catch me in.
I'm around on Club of Mars and I'm an aspiring... Something. Writer. Yeah, we'll go with that.
But I think I'm too young to have aspirations.
We'll see.

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2007-11-28T09:25:47-08:00

Fialkov, Joshua - Writer of Comics. I write a book called Punks, wrote a book called Elk's Run, and am writing Vampirella.
I also rock the pin stripe. (Take that Tony Lee.)

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2007-11-28T09:28:00-08:00

I'm Andy. I'm a Student, graduation with a BA in English and History in May. I'm a book nerd. I work part time in a bookstore downtown. This makes people like Barney the Antiquarian book dealer my hero. I'm thinking of going to grad school for something. I've considered going the English Teacher route like several others here. Ideally, I'd like to write fiction, but doesn't everyone?
here's what I look like when I stand in front of W. B. Yeats' Grave and try to look contemplative.

I can't get my picture to work...I don't have the beard anymore anyway.

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2007-11-28T09:28:40-08:00

Dan Taylor. I write things like comic books, incomplete stories, unfinished novels, and a handful of screenplays.

Oh, and there's www.dantaylorblog.com -- one of the gazillion blogs bouncing around the internet.

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2007-11-28T09:28:46-08:00

I'm Jessie, I'm almost done with my bachelors and I can't wait, and I work part time to help pay for it at a library. I'm still getting over not having blue hair, six years is a long time. And because I don't think pictures of me (without blue hair) are exciting, here's one of me with a vicious attack puppy.

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2007-11-28T09:29:04-08:00

Heh! Heh!

Nice product placement there, Mr. Seifert! Have Avatar's Accounts Payable carve you off 15% of my next paycheck...

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2007-11-28T09:31:12-08:00

hey all, i'm Pat *waves*
it's all about comics and photography and writing.
just got back from a cross-country road trip taking photos with an old school rolleiflex and two polaroid cameras and am spending must of my time in a darkroom (when i'm not working) trying to get them all ready to show for my first gallery show next summer :)

(and typing all this has made me late for work. but it was worth it!!)

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2007-11-28T09:33:44-08:00

My name is Keith and I am a full time geek, an ex-Larper and table top gamer and a former Karaoke DJ. I've been stalking Warren since I found Planetary on my local comic book seller's shelves. I own a mansion and a yacht. :D

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2007-11-28T09:35:50-08:00

I'm Ren, a writer of the US, currently an administrative monkey for a medical technology company.

I look like...

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2007-11-28T09:38:01-08:00

Heh! Heh!

Nice product placement there, Mr. Seifert!

Mike - Haha. It's sitting there to inspire me for some upcoming ads...

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2007-11-28T09:39:01-08:00

My name is Jason. I live in Austin Texas.
I am a project manager for a media company.
I enjoy making music (x-bands include: none you have heard of).
I do a podcast (sometimes).
I am the writer on a new web comic called Common People.
My wife is in advertising (she makes you buy things you don't need or want).
My favorite movie is Fight Club and GhostBusters II (fuck you).
I have two dogs and a 15 pound cat.
I'm self conscious about the way text looks on screen.

I look like a fat Elvis.

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2007-11-28T09:40:10-08:00

Hi, I'm Ray, and I'm a business analyst for Big Pharma. I'm much thinner than I was in this photo, but what can you do?

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2007-11-28T09:45:37-08:00

Hi I'm Silvio and I'm a clerk in a comics shop

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2007-11-28T09:47:31-08:00

Hey folks. I'm John Platt, writer, activist, etc. I spend most of my time writing about endangered species and working on marketing materials for various clients, although I've also published quite a bit of fiction over the years.

If this works, here's me (plus our puppy and one of our cats):

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2007-11-28T09:48:52-08:00

Hi, kids. I'm Libby Bulloff. I'm a graphic designer, photographer, freelance hairdresser, club promoter, steampunk, and goofball.

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2007-11-28T09:50:29-08:00

I'm Pete. I've always hung around Mr Ellis's creations to see what's interesting.
I'm in museums.
I have no decent picture

EDIT: Yes I do

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2007-11-28T09:53:22-08:00

Hello. Eric Palicki. Technical writer. Marketing writer. Webcomics writer.

I'm the one on the right.

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2007-11-28T09:54:54-08:00

Hey folks. I'm Justin Stewart. Comic colorist, letterer, and designer. PoppedCulture.net

Nice to meet ya'll.

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2007-11-28T09:58:22-08:00

Caias Ward, writer and painter, stationary engineer and raconteur. Got my start writing with RPG books and am slowly moving on to the mainstream world.

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2007-11-28T09:58:33-08:00

my name is john-david. i graduate from the university of florida in two weeks. i will move to los angeles and sell my soul shortly after that.

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2007-11-28T10:01:09-08:00

Hi, my name is Andrew. I work at a comic book shop and write screenplays/drink.

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2007-11-28T10:04:21-08:00

Hi, I'm Bill Blum, IT Minion at a small liberal arts university in the Dayton Ohio area.
I've got 3 kids, a degree in physics, and an inordinate fascination with the stuff people manage to create within Second Life.
( I'm Daikon Hammerer in SL )

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2007-11-28T10:04:39-08:00

Brent Cox, Brooklyn, NY. Writer, actor, producer, paralegal. Not necessarily in that order.

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2007-11-28T10:04:57-08:00

Hey, I'm Renee.

I work as a concierge at a retirement community and I'm a student. Well, I really consider myself an artist who draws and photographs. I probably spend too much time on flickr. I've lived in some interesting places and right now I'm in California.

Oh, and I love books.

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2007-11-28T10:07:32-08:00

Hi all.

My name's Dan, I live in Norwich, UK and I'm currently (still) in the printing business, on the pre-press side. Also been quietly stalking Ellis for several years.
Interests include science fiction, politics, and mucking around with new-ish stuff (usually about six months after it's stopped being new).

I really ought to go grab my camera, but it's currently buried somewhere...

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2007-11-28T10:10:06-08:00

Hello. Jeff Juliard, Designer, writer, animator. Not necessarily in that order.

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2007-11-28T10:10:28-08:00

I'm Angela.

Live in Los Angeles. By day, kick ass executive assistant. By rest of the time, photographer, painter, writer, and small publisher. I'm going to Florence, Italy to track down rich art collectors.

This is me with the old hair. Can't find me with the new hair.

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2007-11-28T10:14:21-08:00

Jesse James, 30's, Texas. Work with Dwight Albatoss on Blinkys Zine. I write a couple comics & do interviews.

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2007-11-28T10:15:41-08:00

Hey, kids. Josh Landers here. I'm an amateur everything: artist, writer, musician, etc. I live in Northeast Tennessee, which isn't nearly as bad as you might imagine. I dig comics, movies, video games, drinking...y'know, standard dork fare. Anyway, this is my mug:

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2007-11-28T10:16:18-08:00

I'm Josh. I'm in college, I spend way more time on the internet than I should and sometimes I think I can write.

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2007-11-28T10:17:24-08:00

Hello. I'm Z. I don't photograph well. Here's the cat I live with. She's a shameless flirt.

-Z

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2007-11-28T10:17:25-08:00

I'm Julie. I do something with computers. I like photography, rats, wine, books and cryptography.

This is the best photo I have of me, taken in 1980:

I'm the one on the right. I'd be interested if anyone recognises the guy on the left.

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2007-11-28T10:22:41-08:00

...Mark Spitz?

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2007-11-28T10:24:33-08:00

Hello my name is Joshua, but since it's bloody awful sounding common name I resort to the odd Latin word malifer which means apple-bearing.
My hobbies include reading, writing, movies and motorcycles. I like any genre, but my love is always in scifi & fantasy. I went to film school.
If it rains I look something like this.

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2007-11-28T10:25:47-08:00

Mark Spitz?

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2007-11-28T10:28:07-08:00

Reverend Kinesys A.K.A Pete Sears is a wise and multifaceted individual, In fact he is so wise, that he has trouble referring to himself in the third person with a straight face.

He is, in no particular order:
A professional actor with stage and screen credits under his belt.
The author of 3 books, and a small number of plays.
An accomplished singer of many different types of music.
A scholar of human nature, psychology, and theology, and the Occult.
An experienced Tarot reader.
A tactical and political analyst.
Skilled in the realms of private investigation and investigative research.
Author/Columnist of the World Famous Crank Report and the Ebon Shelf.
Expert in a number of weapons, modern and archaic.
An ordained minister.
A Plenipotentiary at Large
and an extremely sexy bitch.

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2007-11-28T10:29:16-08:00

Hi, I'm Greg. I do the webcomic thing Abandon. My art-fu is weak but I'm a decent writer. My daughters are much more talented than me. I work in IT. I take photos. I've played bass in bands. I've made music/art zines. I love soccer but I call it football. Go Liverpool.
Photo evidence from my award winning photographer youngest daughter:

Me at MegaCon 2007:

Some early work from my professional artist oldest daughter is on the table. (circa Junior High or early high school)

Happy to be here.

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2007-11-28T10:29:21-08:00

I'm Kat (or Katrina if you like).
I'm an Art Director at an interactive advertising agency.
I'm working on starting a band with my husband where I will sing and play guitar and possibly even learn how to play the keyboard properly.
I am learning to knit, but haven't figured out how to "bind off" yet, which I'm sure will soon be a problem.
I am currently obsessed with Miranda July and finding music videos that have nice typography.

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2007-11-28T10:31:32-08:00

Hey all. My name is Christopher. I am a animation film editor in Portland Oregon. I am currently editing the 3D stop-motion adaptation of Neil Gaiman's 'Coraline.' I spend what little time I have left reading comics, playing games, and trying to be the best dad & husband a guy working 60 hour weeks can be.

I look like this (also featuring my little man- Lincoln)

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2007-11-28T10:31:59-08:00

My name's Sara "Pooka" Arnett. I'm a professional artist/comic book store owner. My comic book stores called White Crow Comics in a dinky little university town called Morehead Kentucky.
I'm a supernatural/conspiracy theory left wing nutter with a love of animals and nature. I'm an openminded pagan that's probably bi-polar. I spend most of my spare time reading, roleplaying, or playing videogames.

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2007-11-28T10:33:56-08:00

Hey all-
I'm Mark. Live in Wisconsin. It's snowing right now. I live with my wife and dog in the town I grew up in. The apple really doesn't fall far from the tree. I own the local bicycle shop here in the Bend. Owning a bike shop means I can't ride as much as I'd like, but hey, it's a living. My wife and I ride motorcycles for fun. I read books with pictures for fun. Thanks for having me.
Mark

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2007-11-28T10:34:04-08:00

Kinesys, Nice choice for a deck. I usually leave the transcendent Mage in as well, though I am starting to rethink that based on some of the other stuff I have been picking up.

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2007-11-28T10:36:03-08:00

Pooka: I'm jealous as shit. I always wanted to go back into business with a shop like that.

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2007-11-28T10:36:52-08:00

Hello, world. I'm Wil, and this is what I look like when I take a self portrait to be used as a reference for a comic:

I'm a full-time writer, occasional actor, and I've been a geek since I learned how to count. Warren's been a friend and mentor to me as I make the move from narrative non-fiction to comic books to novels to world domination.

When I'm not writing, I read a lot, mostly science fiction and graphic novels. Recently, I've been playing a little too much 360. Hey, don't judge me. It's not my fault Portal and Rock Band are so much fun.

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2007-11-28T10:37:47-08:00

CaBil, warren, no, not Mark Spitz. Right sport. Wrong country. He, and I, are British.

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2007-11-28T10:38:26-08:00

Alistair P. Did a bit of comics stuff a while back. Then went to live in a cabin in the woods. Emerged from the cabin in the woods to find myself in Northampton. I used to write columns about weird shit and interview borderline nutters and be known a little bit for being involved in the magical and pagan scene. Got utterly sick of the complete bunch of wank that most of that scene turned into, so pretty much stopped all that. Kinda miss it slightly, though, so am trying to find something interesting to replace it with, that I can write about again.

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2007-11-28T10:41:19-08:00

Tesla: David Wilkie!

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2007-11-28T10:42:47-08:00

Wil Wheaton in the house.

And that's reminded me that I still need to download Portal, though god knows when I'll get the time to play it.

Also nice to see Carrie and Alistair, and Maddie, and all...

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2007-11-28T10:44:53-08:00

My name is Nicholas Brandt.
I'm a screenwriter and live in Studio City.
(Sounds made up, but it isn't)
If you live outside of the US, you may have seen my jaunt in low budget horror called Hollywood Kills.
It was based on a true story.
(That's a lie)
I accept criticism and warm regards with the appropriate countermeasures.
You don't need a picture of me because I'm already in your heart.

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2007-11-28T10:44:58-08:00

Warren: Bingo! Yep, did a sponsored swim in 1980, and we all got our photos taken with the great man.

Now, both he & I have less hair than in the picture. I suspect that only my hair reduction is from choice.

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2007-11-28T10:45:40-08:00

tesla, using the power of Wiki, my last try would be Andrew Astbury

Editted to add: Whoops, wrong! Still interesting to know.

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2007-11-28T10:46:31-08:00

I'm Ben Castle. Warren Ellis is awesome.

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2007-11-28T10:47:14-08:00

Rian Miller.

Starving artist and writer.

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2007-11-28T10:48:36-08:00

Chris.

Too lazy to post a photo. Art History student. Consumer of own bodyweight in cider. Trying to start own modified clothing business and failing to find the money. Hates socks. Lives off cheese & pickle sandwiches and caffeine.

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2007-11-28T10:51:24-08:00

I go by Mize, which is good enough for me. I live in the richest county in Michigan. I am a late blooming student, finishing out a Baccalaureate Degree at 25. Oh well, it's a fantastically good excuse to associate with and befriend 18 year old girls.

Also, I am not as astonished as I should be that several people here bear a close resemblance to Kevin Smith. I once sold comic books for a remarkable Kevin Smith lookalike.

I'm unemployed, but the word on the street is if I keep posting stuff on thisisby.us I have the very real possibility of making money.

Books with pictures and books without pictures make me happy in my squeedlyspooch.

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2007-11-28T10:51:45-08:00

Hi I am Kyle. I have a large sonic appetite. Visuals and words are also consumed. I do nothing as I am paid by the government because my kidneys are dying. Otherwise I attend concerts and take my medication as prescibed.

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2007-11-28T10:57:06-08:00

Stalker#1358 is mentally ill, absurdly rich, and easily bored in no particular order.

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2007-11-28T11:01:34-08:00

I am NR Miller, another douche writer you who populates the internet constantly introducing himself as such and then stammering when someone asks "have you written anything I know." No. No I haven't. But you've never read anything I've written have you?

I attend UNLV right now, such a high class institute befitting of the city where people shove money into slot machines only so they aren't forced to step out into the oven and burn up as the sun hits them. It's worse for the old ones, their oxygen tanks explode. Boom. Boom-Boom. Boom. You hear it all over town.

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2007-11-28T11:04:28-08:00

Hey, Wil! I'm glad we got to chat at the Avatar booth in San Diego this past summer. I've gotta tell you, you were one the the most genuinely cool persons I met a Comic Con. And yes, here's my fanboy pic:

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2007-11-28T11:08:51-08:00

Hello
I'm Aaron, a Stagehand/graphics op in maryland.

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2007-11-28T11:13:14-08:00

Hello, I'm Scott. I don't really do anything (unless you call a cog in the miserable world of corporate finance something, call me crazy I don't). I am a writer although, I am still an amateur but then...
This is really me.

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2007-11-28T11:17:10-08:00

hey, I'm Derek. I don't do much other than read comics and play scrabble.

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2007-11-28T11:24:02-08:00

Hey; I'm Ted Brandt. Temporary worker, slob and aspiring writer. Face in the crowd.

I joined The ENGINE in its twilight throes, and so have followed Warren here.

I'm the one sat down.

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2007-11-28T11:24:34-08:00

* sigh *

My name is MontiLee Stormer and I should know better.

Writer, bartender, and I work for Lush cosmetics now so you know I smell good.

Latest picture snapped of me and my writing partner, Rob Callahan. He'll probably be around soon, but he claims to have a life.

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2007-11-28T11:24:59-08:00

Hi all, I'm Chris Cotgrove, 33 years old, originally from Leigh-on-Sea, in the south-east UK, now living in Alabaster, Alabama.

I'm a writer and illustrator, and spend my spare time writing, drawing, doing dad duties, and playing with my 4 year old.

If you need any more info, check out http://myspace.com/thenthdoctor.

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2007-11-28T11:26:40-08:00

Hank: My husband and I bought it a bit over two years ago. My husband started working a comic shop back when he was in highschool in Mt. Sterling KY...he then moved to go to college here in morehead. There was already a shop owned by fred brown, a folk history writer. Chris freaked out when he saw the state of the backstock in the shop and volenteered to fix it (how he got his first job as well lol). He got paid store credit for a number of years, and graduated with a bach. in art with an emphasis on graphic design. i ended up dropping out of school because of severe arthritis but i'll go back eventually...just not here in morehead. After a year or so, Fred decided to let his sons run his comic book store...which was a really really bad idea. They pretty much turned it into a pawn shop and lost alot of business. Eventually Fred was losing more money than he spent and decided to sell the business. We jumped at the chance, got a loan and bought the place. Morehead isn't the best town for a comic book store, but we don't do too badly. We've managed to stay open for over two years now..if we can make it another four we'll have it paid for lol.
It's such a fun job. How many people can say that they get to go read comics, watch cartoons and hang out with their friends at work? It gets pretty damned stressful trying to run a place in a small town like this...but it's getting us by for now. We're also working on a bunch of different media projects that we're hoping to get published and produced...but it's hard to fit those in when you have a family and a business to run.

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2007-11-28T11:32:20-08:00

Hi im Martin Johnstone, a 33 year old scientist living in Scotland.

MJ

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2007-11-28T11:33:25-08:00

I'm Jori, I like cats, and I'm not much good for anything.

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2007-11-28T11:34:08-08:00

Hi. I'm Drew, and I poke at things with Photoshop. My girlfriend and I romance the wide Internet from our apartment in St. Louis.

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2007-11-28T11:34:47-08:00

Hi, I'm Adam, and I'm 22. I live in shitty Cleveland, Ohio, so to cope I drink a lot of rum and smoke a lot of reefer. Read Doktor Sleepless.

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2007-11-28T11:36:11-08:00

Maddie Greene = Beautiful Gas Mask Mantle piece!

Howdy!
Dr. Nik, kickboxer dog boy.
Rural New Hampshire, USA (where is OLD hampshire?)

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2007-11-28T11:38:38-08:00

I'm Phil. I write HTML and PHP code and design mySQL databases. I live in the part of Washington state that would be considered it's asshole, if states were mammals. If they were weird alien things, I don't know, maybe it would be the mouth. You know how those aliens are. Fuckers.

Right now, I pretty much look like this:

I post my errant thoughts and links on philnelson.name, and am in testing of a new site I'm calling Cinemaniacal. It's kind of beta-y.

They've been selling Red Bull in 17oz cans, here, so I've typed this probably 20 times. Stopping, now.

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2007-11-28T11:43:59-08:00

Hey all - Jim Shearhart here, writer of stuff, photographer of objects, drinker of Newcastle.

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2007-11-28T11:47:25-08:00

Leandro. Writer and designer.

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2007-11-28T11:52:50-08:00

Pooka: I had a small shop in a town in northern Michigan, we ran for just over a year, then decided to call it quits since parts of the partnership were unwilling to put in time. Ended with blank ink though...

I'm tempted to try the concept here but it is a scary time to get involved in a business..

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2007-11-28T11:58:20-08:00

Jason here, long time geek and gamer! Quite enjoying LOTRO at the moment and pop in Second Life now and again. Oh almost forgot I hail from Southend originally but now reside in sunny Luton!

This is me...

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2007-11-28T11:59:49-08:00

hank: true enough. the economy is for shit right now and only getting worse. we've had to start ebaying our toys because no one's buying anymore. They'd rather spend the money they don't spend on gas (and food, and whatnot..but mostly gas :P) on books than pretty, but useless pieces of plastic...

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2007-11-28T12:00:16-08:00

Hello! I'm Alastair budding musician although i currently work in a major chain record shop... uhhhhh i'm 21. i like comics computer games heavy metal and disco. my grammer and writing skills suck ass.
cheerio

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2007-11-28T12:04:21-08:00

Victoria aka Rei3 named for my hero Ayanmai Rei from Evangelion.  Big Black Summer fan, love SL, happy to be among you all.xoxo

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2007-11-28T12:07:25-08:00

Hi. I am h_m and when I grow up I want to be a robot.

I have a name I don't enjoy hearing and a face I don't like to look at, so I'm not in the habit of presenting either. But here's a picture of my hand.

I write from time to time and am currently slacking on production of two screenplays. I am not professional and I probably never will be at this rate, but it's a pleasant enough dream; and I feel it's important to amuse myself.

I have a livejournal, two dogs, several other pets and am married. I work in technical support.

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2007-11-28T12:09:46-08:00

rei3: my current favorite anime and manga as well. Have you read Angelic Days?

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2007-11-28T12:13:55-08:00

ahoy. i'm matt: canadian and nowhere near as smart or clever as i think i am.

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2007-11-28T12:15:32-08:00

Kevin Tester here. Musician, unemployed comic nerd. I fear Gummi zombies, Mothman, and Warren Ellis forgetting how to write. My idols are sasquatch and Abraham Lincoln. I live in Minneapolis, MN and am soon to be hibernating as winter is on it's way.

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2007-11-28T12:18:51-08:00

Hello my name is Lisa, I'm here to waste my time and if possible yours.

I am currently the contender to for the title of 'Geekiest Girl I Know' amongst all of my friends and acquaintances. In a professional capacity I am a data analyst and code-monkey for E.On in the UK. In a not-so-professional capacity I'm a 'keen' LARPer, avid role player, listen to far too much music far too loudly and currently have 3 different books on the go. Oops.

I used to be an art student so sometimes churn out the occasional doodle. I love all things to do with computers, science, vast quantities of useless information... I am a general knowledge sponge. I'm great for pub quizzes.

Old picture of me:

Newer picture of me:

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2007-11-28T12:19:09-08:00

I'm Damian. Sometime writer, ex DJ/Producer, Engine refugee and overall headcase. Being a systems analyst pays the bills.

This is me in need of coffee and cigarettes.....

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2007-11-28T12:25:58-08:00

AuthorAmRadTheory: ya know what's really creepy?...my husband and girlfriend went out to the Mid-Ohio con last sunday and accidently ended up in Point Pleasant West Virginia (mothman town). They got lost on the backroads, crossing the replacement bridge a couple times, not knowing where they were. They wandered about for about an hour, and eventually found a pizza place where my girlfriend went in for directions. Basically, when she told the worker who was there, where they had been, he got really upset and told her not to go down the backroad they had been on anymore. that no one used it anymore because the mothman stuff hadn't died down really at all since the whole news story back in the (whenever that happened), and it wasn't safe driving on the road at night. He pointed them in the right direction and they left. On their way out of Point Pleasant, they started getting a really creepy feeling. My husband noticed, in the sky, following behind them in a looping, zigzagging way, was a giant glowing white cloud. It followed them until they got close to the edge of Pt. Pleasant. It seemed to have trouble following them as they left the area, seeming to strain forward then snap back a few yards. Eventually it turned and zipped quickly back to a mountain in the middle of town.
Sounds crazy...but it totally happened. My girlfriend was afraid to look at it, and still doesn't like talking about it.

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2007-11-28T12:27:51-08:00

Hello I am Chad . I read, Play videogames, Roleplay, read Comics and rasie my two boys. Yep I am a Dad. I do not have a cool picture to put up sorry. I am not that terabley talneted. I also like to listen music, most anything. Been reading Mr. Ellis's stuff for awhile now.

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2007-11-28T12:29:44-08:00

I'm Alexis. Philosophical genius, part-time swashbuckler, cyberpunk enthusiast, steampunk dabbler, backpack hip hopper, and any many other labels you can throw around.

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2007-11-28T12:30:54-08:00

Hi there, Elmo Martin here.

Artist? Writer? Poet? Photographer? Welder.

I'm a lighting designer, master electrician and all around theatre geek.
I live in Long Beach, CA. It's nice here.
I'm slowly becoming the person I said i would be.

This is myself on top of Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh.

Yes, my hair is always that messy. :)

As you weird.

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2007-11-28T12:35:05-08:00

Matthew Bradley here saying a-hoy-hoy. Student at Manchester University, where I spend most of my time attempting to bend science (Physics, specifically) to my unholy will. Doesn't seem to be working so far.

Here is a photo of me with something silly on my head.

And here is my silly myspace, if you care.

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2007-11-28T12:42:48-08:00

Hello, all. I'm Sophie and I'm a recluse. Sometimes I do things, providing it doesn't involve leaving the house.
Here is a pre-spectacles photo of me in a shirt what I hand-painted and all.

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2007-11-28T12:43:56-08:00

Natalie Sandells. Comic Artist and scarer of Bengali kids. Actually live a ten minute walk away from Whitechapel.

Sometimes I can be found wandering the streets of London in the wee small hours looking like this;

Or some similar variation.

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2007-11-28T12:46:44-08:00

alright, then. i'm natalie dominique.
soon to be college drop out, comic/internet/videogame addict.
and this is my snake. his name is Nim

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2007-11-28T12:47:12-08:00

Hello, I'm Ava. I work for one of them interwebs companies.

These days I try to write.

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2007-11-28T12:47:26-08:00

Hi, I'm Elizabeth. I'm one of the infinite number of IT people who do things with computers but can never quite explain what it is. I'm forever in awe of people who actually know what they're doing because, no matter how much I learn, I always barely muddle through.

I'm a newbie to both comics and writing for them, though since I started it, I'm loving every minute! I'm also working on a novel and a series of short stories so that one day I can take over the literary world! Well no, but I like the delusion.

So, here's me, it's a little old as I have red hair now:

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2007-11-28T12:51:34-08:00

thought I'd add a couple of my many pets...the first one is eight months now and the antichrist, and the dog is my puppers Lenore. She's a copper nosed beagle mix and is the sweetest dog in existance I'm pretty sure.

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2007-11-28T12:54:11-08:00

Call it: ~~Time of death~~ Catblogging at 5 hours in.

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2007-11-28T12:56:09-08:00

Sarah Deaton. 26. Charlotte, NC. Half Korean, half Southern white trash. Graphic designer formerly employed at an adult VOD company. Currently sewing stuffed animals to pay the rent until my stress-induced pseudo-seizures and mono-related fatigue are under control and I can get a real job again. I like pink and have a lot of cats.

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2007-11-28T12:57:23-08:00

I should have known the cats would herald your entrance, Sarah...

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2007-11-28T12:59:20-08:00

They know when I'm coming. They always know.

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2007-11-28T13:02:32-08:00

Donovon Dildine

freelance writer/journalist
global trickster
rhetoric outlaw

I hate most people in the world, but I'm suppressing the urge to kill them with my mental rage rays.

See...I'm concentrating real hard.

When not contemplating global homicide, I read many texts, write a few, read somemore, and still manage to find time to raise an army...of two children, but they are coming along nicely, fruition of plans and all that.

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2007-11-28T13:05:17-08:00

Special Education Teacher, new father and multimedia artist on sabbatical.

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2007-11-28T13:09:37-08:00

hello again. -jes

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2007-11-28T13:10:58-08:00

My name is Jennifer. By day, I'm an internet technical support specialist for a cable ISP in Michigan. In my free time.... I'm working on a few of my own writing projects (Let's see what kind of disaster I can make of myself....heheheh ;P), as well as making music with a dear and talented friend of mine who I'll hopefully drag on here, too. Soune rough tracks can be found at (and they're very *rough* tracks, we only just got in a real studio yesterday. The good quality sound will come soon): this page. I can also usually be found on Livejournal,Myspace, or Detroitgothic.net.

Here's a pic of me (I have shorter, black hair now though, and no more recent pics):

eep! sorry about the huge photo size.....

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2007-11-28T13:18:49-08:00

thefinn

No current photographic evidence is available. I can, however, assure you that I am not a figment of your imagination. The same can't always be said for you.

Husband to one and father of another.

Good corporate whore by day and freelance writer by night. Weekends are spent in the company of The Beast and rotting my brain and teeth on video games and hard candy.

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2007-11-28T13:27:36-08:00

William Perrin; shiftless layabout, house-husband, unpublished writer, and occasional Texan, reporting for duty. Behold my epic forehead:

Hope I didn't blind anyone.

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2007-11-28T13:31:14-08:00

Hiya, Danny Donovan -- Writer at large, and Shameless self promoter (and promoter of friends and well wishers, in that they don't mean me any SPECIFFIC harm...)

My photos

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2007-11-28T13:39:23-08:00

Hi. Adrian Smith. Writer/musician by choice, construction estimator by need. Residing somewhere toward the Southern California desert.

By night I look cool:

By day I do not:

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2007-11-28T14:04:23-08:00

Shay, 26, Tel-Aviv. I'm a clerk at the local comics store, psychology/philosophy undergrad (soon-to-be grad) student, and retired promoter/connoisseur of what we laughingly call the Tel-Aviv nightlife/art/culture scene.

I look something like this:

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2007-11-28T14:07:09-08:00

I´m Erwin and learned an arsefull of European languages (all of them helpful with SOME ladies) back in Vienna and don´t know shit about computers, that´s why I must type every self-centered bullshit about myself again painfully: Massage Therapist and student (Germanistik and Psychologie [Englisch was my third living language, sorry for speaking funny/like Arnuhld in an interview).
I came here because I´m a nice geek and added Warren as a myspace buddy (or Warren is nice and added another geekk).
I´m awed with this webpresence and hope I will remember it tomorrow when I´m sober:

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2007-11-28T14:07:13-08:00

I'm Dave. I do pretty much nothing. I have bad circulation, so my toes and fingers get cold a lot.

I have approximately eight thousand blogs around online at the moment but here is one of them.

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2007-11-28T14:08:25-08:00

'Lo

Steve Dole. Sold my soul to marketing many years ago. Live and work in Hebden Bridge.

That's me on the left.

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2007-11-28T14:09:54-08:00

Hey I'm Luce. Geeking on most levels these days *winks* Slowly been dragged into the world of comic joy as it was the only area I was lacking in, and I gotta say it's been a fun slide into the debauched and geeky. *grins*

You'll either find me gaming, reading, poiing or helping people with their mental state, as some fool decided i'd make a good mental health nurse.... *winks*

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2007-11-28T14:18:14-08:00

Jacen Burrows, I draw pictures of horrible things conjured up out of the filthy minds of Warren and Garth so they don't have to think about it anymore. Here's a picture of me up to no good in the Walmart clearance aisle wearing a Pigface t-shirt that says 'American Asshole' on the back...

Everything I am working on now is TOP SECRET so I'll be over in the corner chewing on my tongue and twitching.

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2007-11-28T14:18:18-08:00

Hello. I'm Baki. When it's sunny, I look like this:

I do stuff with computers. I like AI. I'm a grad student.

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2007-11-28T14:19:22-08:00

Hi. I'm Nick. I'm kinda awesome. And I can't figure out how to put my picture on my profile because I'm apparently wicked good with computers. So, if anyone can help me, that would be pretty cool. That way people will know I'm a real person and not some character made up by someone who's not me. I enjoy rockin music and bloody movies full of boobies and swearwords. I make pizza and sell skateboards for a living. Sometimes I like to have Pajama-Jammy-Jam Dance parties that go until 8 in the morning. And I don't like vegetables.

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2007-11-28T14:24:11-08:00

Kan-tor, 26, jerusalem, Israel, I do Illustartations and motion graphics, I buy comics from the store where shay (a couple of posts up) works

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2007-11-28T14:26:58-08:00

Nick, we've got a how to thread that might just help...

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2007-11-28T14:43:01-08:00

ARES you don't look cool at night. I just wanted to throw that out there. j/k

Welcome everyone. Let's be friends.

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2007-11-28T14:50:29-08:00

Alex. All around nerd trying to be a writer. Australian by birth, living in London for the moment.

Sorry about the obnoxiously large image.

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2007-11-28T14:54:44-08:00

Hi, I'm Nathan Castle. I do this:

and drink.

Cheers!

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2007-11-28T14:56:30-08:00

Hello, I'm Xaltotun;

IT cubicle warrior (how original, meh.). Comics aficionado. Waren Ellis fan.

I like the Xaltotun sobriquet because he was a kick ass wizard in Conan (not the comics, dummy, the original R.E. Howard prose). Probably the only guy who made Conan shit his pants (um, his girdle? Loincloth? Anyway, he was scarred shitless).

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2007-11-28T15:10:49-08:00

Hello, I'm Alexis. I've never been one for inventing more interesting names for myself. I'm a 23 year old artist, a photographer and illustrator. I live in and around the Washington D.C. area. I have a myspace here: It's a work in progress. HTML is a mystery to me.

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2007-11-28T15:17:49-08:00

Hi, my name's John-Paul and I write the London Horror Comic.

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2007-11-28T15:22:26-08:00

I'm John, a.k.a. Adrammalech, occasional writer, actor, magickian and nightmarist.

The tall, dangerous-looking individual with the black lipstick is my butler and career vagrant, Josef. I snipped his vocal cords when he told me he did not like Doktor Sleepless. He will be visiting you in your dreams tonight. Remember to say hello, or he will do unspeakable things in your kitchen.

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2007-11-28T15:26:29-08:00

Hi, i'm Phil... current day job is as a designer but i'm looking at a 3DS MAX training job 10 minutes walk down the road... by night I act, write and occasionally play in a band... and read... and play video games... and co-ordinate the local IGDA chapter... I don't have enough free time...
I often look like this whilst reading emails from clients:

Thanks for listening, let's be careful out there!

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2007-11-28T15:27:45-08:00

Hi, Ziga Sparovec, a graphic designer in the fashion indutry, located in Melbourne, Australia.

(Sorry about the lack of a photo; can't post it from work, will try and remedy the situtaion from home later.)

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2007-11-28T15:36:34-08:00

Howdy. I'm Matt, father of two, The Comic Book Shop manager, writer.

I spend my days infecting the masses with comics, training the boy to take over the world and writing about sex and booze. If we don't see the last Planetary or the next Desolation Jones soon, the customers will tar and feather me.

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2007-11-28T15:39:57-08:00

Hello I'm Daniel. Unemployed from a bleak town near london.
I attempt to write, doodle, make t-shirts and form the worlds first one-man IndustrialPunkBluesCore band.

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2007-11-28T15:46:03-08:00

name's mike, not much else to say

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2007-11-28T15:46:50-08:00

I am Jared Harkness in Seattle.
Student mostly. Reader, creator of ideas, musician, DJ at a DIY internet radio station www.hollowearthradio.com
I just got a haircut!

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2007-11-28T15:49:21-08:00

Excellent, Jared. I've just added you to itunes.

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2007-11-28T15:52:05-08:00

I'm adam. I considered this psuedonym bullshit but decided against it as my mind is far from lucid today and I'd only bitterly regret anything I call myslef, likely to the point of suicide. I have no photos of me, as cameras are the devil's work and I like my soul where it is, thankyou. I may upload a crummy crayon sketch of myself as a cowboy or something later.

I'm an Australian. No, we don't have trained kangaroos delivering our mail, asswipes - they can't READ. We just have them do the direct-drop junk mail runs instead. Drop Bears aren't real either. YES, we get electricity down here, that was switched on last thursday. My village now has a television showing THREE different channels of static. The future is bright.

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2007-11-28T15:52:34-08:00

J. Kevin Carrier - Designer, wannabe-cartoonist, bon vivant:

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2007-11-28T15:53:19-08:00

Sweet, if you are curious to know, my specific show is Tuesdays from 3-5 (pacific). But there is a lot of great shows on there, and even when there's not there's all sorts of eclectic stuff playing from all over the place, with a bit of an emphasis on the Pacific NW.
(also, we are always happy to take in new music, if anyone out there wants to send stuff in let me know.)

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2007-11-28T15:55:15-08:00

~~Go ahead and start a thread in the Art and Noise category, Jared.~~

Never mind! Warren's taken care of it.

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2007-11-28T16:02:25-08:00

Hello, my name is Veles. I want to immanentize the eschaton. Also, I'm a sucker for magical realism. This is me:

I'm the one losing his hair.

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2007-11-28T16:07:31-08:00

Sara. Mad scientist, inventor, lurker.

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2007-11-28T16:09:54-08:00

There you are, Sara.

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2007-11-28T16:18:23-08:00

Hi,

I'm Nevin and I enjoy Warren's brain.

Thank you daddy and mommy Warren, for making him.

I am not cool enough to have webhosted images of myself. Perhaps I am also too lazy. My face exists, however, on Facebook. It's me eating a burger. I need a shave. I often need a shave. I need one right now, actually. Just run a search for Nevin Densham.

Fahrvergnügen.

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2007-11-28T16:31:41-08:00

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Mike. I enjoy people doing creative things also beer and the internet.

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2007-11-28T16:32:57-08:00

John Bridges. Concept artist at CCP North America|White Wolf in Atlanta, GA.

Lately: listening to Burial and Amon Amarth, and reading Icelandic literature.

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2007-11-28T16:35:02-08:00

Hi I'm Geoff Davies, currently serving life behind bars in Manchester. That would be the good kind of bars with frothy beverages and vodka and caffeine based mixers, not the bad kind with cell mates called Mad Arseraping Frankie. Well when I say "good" I should clarify that I work for JDWetherspoon but it is marginally better than prison, probably.
and this'll be me holding my tiny new nephew SamJam

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2007-11-28T16:45:33-08:00

Hi. I'm Joanne. I edit books no one will ever read. I wasn't sure if I was going to sign up, but then I saw Jessica was here, and I don't get nearly enough of her anymore.

This is my totally awesome and completely underappreciated Halloween costume.

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2007-11-28T16:48:41-08:00

My name is Samuel, currently in Ballard, WA

I run a very small record label called Debacle Records

I love everything music.

Im currently lying my way into a Marketing position at the Largest Software Corporation in the WORLD.

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2007-11-28T16:51:04-08:00

Allo,

Thomas here. I have three useless bachelor degrees, the latest in law. Warren Ellis speaks to me in dreams. No, it's true!

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2007-11-28T17:05:25-08:00

Jessica's here?

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2007-11-28T17:05:41-08:00

Hello. Idan Cohen. Wastrel, fool-in-training, writer, cook, hairy bastard.

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2007-11-28T17:17:12-08:00

Anders Nygaard again. I come for the links, stay for the mental scars.

Old picture. More hairy these days.

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2007-11-28T17:23:34-08:00

I'm Jesse Beattie; picture will come when I figure out how.
Mr.Effbomb is a long-shot reference to Johnny: The Homicidal Maniac which turned me on to graphic novels and comics. That and Transmet.
Marketing student, eventual writer and currently procrastinating. That'll happen a lot.

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2007-11-28T17:31:17-08:00

Bill Reed, like it says on the tin. Student, writer, librarian, blogger, nerd.

I don't actually keep any pictures of me. And I never feel clever enough to be posting on Ellis-run forums, but I sign up for them anyway.

Read my blatherings (almost) every day at Comics Should Be Good.

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2007-11-28T17:34:45-08:00

I'm Beau, I make music, I used to do radio, I tour, and I like Rock n Roll.

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2007-11-28T17:55:21-08:00

Hi, I’m Kevin.
Let’s see...well, to pay the bills, I’m a business analyst, which I challenge anyone to make sound sexy. Around that, I write stuff-largely about the goofy things that happen to me. You can read about some of them here. I’m in San Francisco and I look like this:

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2007-11-28T17:57:00-08:00

... and we meet again.

Hector here - I live in South America, where I write THE MAJOR and dee-jay.
spent the day looking for a cheap pool so i could get back to swimming.

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2007-11-28T18:00:01-08:00

Matt Metford. World traveller. Romantic daredevil.

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2007-11-28T18:06:57-08:00

I'm Ben...slacker, reader, sometimes writer

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2007-11-28T18:11:39-08:00

David Marks. Avatar Press Marketing Director, Killadelphia survivor, Warren's official SD Comic-Con Redbull fetch monkey, aspiring trendsetter.

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2007-11-28T18:12:04-08:00

Matt K. 25, Aquarius, math and science nerd. Discordian, transhumanist, teslasexual.

Co-created Baconpunk, apparently. Moved in with Libby as of Monday. Immediate increase in the quality of life.

Friends (and neighbors!)at Mythdemeanor have successfully prototyped the bacontie:

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2007-11-28T18:15:14-08:00

I'm Tonia - I work as a lab scientist and do webcomics for fun - due too hating my picture being taken i don't think i actually have a recent photo - cameras steal your soul.

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2007-11-28T18:18:07-08:00

J Kullmann. Photographer, medical man, semiprofessional drinker. I like gritty photos, dirty women and cold stout. I never leave the house without a camera and several hour worth of music in my pocket. People intrigue and irritate me in equal measures.

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2007-11-28T18:18:23-08:00

Corey is my real first name, Waits however is not my real surname.

I co-founded and wrote a lot of what you'll find at Wastrel Magazine. However, Wastrel is about to be collected into book form and then taken around the back and put out of it's misery. After that, a production company of sorts will be put in it's place.

I write prose - short stories, and I'm half way through a novella and quarter way through a novel.
I want to write comics. Mainly because I get ideas in my head and comics are the only form that could hold them.

I love music and body art/modification.

I look sort of like this:

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2007-11-28T18:18:41-08:00

I'm Stephanie Wilson, full time college student and groomer of beasts. I'd join in intelligent conversations here, but most of brain matter has been sucked away by the classes this semester. Most recent photo:

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2007-11-28T18:20:00-08:00

Hi I'm Keith. Cook, artist, and poet, among other things. Geek boy. I've been reading SF since I was 6, and comics pretty much as long.
Here's me:

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2007-11-28T18:23:10-08:00

well balls.

name is Bexx - I sell books on seashells by the sea. When not selling books, I am strong-arming several a good drink, and making "things" - that of the like which no one has spied before.
here I can be seen holding up this wall in New Oleans

that wall was in DIRE need of holding up.

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2007-11-28T18:23:16-08:00

I'm Josh Wodarz.

By day I do something boring and corporate. By night I do something boring on the couch. Wannabe musician and wannabe writer, working on removing the wannabe part.

Band is here. No writing on line or in print. Yet.

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2007-11-28T18:37:51-08:00

Student. Writer. Music aficionado. General ne'erdowell. Handle on most other forums/IM is nabokovsnose.

Silly album cover-esqe pose. I have nicer shoes now. Also, I'm not in Spain anymore.

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2007-11-28T18:38:58-08:00

Rantz Hoseley, former Engine denzien, founder of Panel and Pixel where I foolishly try to carry on discussing the creation of, and issues surrounding comics. I'm drawing an OGN for Image with writer Derek McCulloch called Displaced Persons that will be out in May 2008, writing 2 other series, and editing organizing a monster 400-ish page anthology for Image that will be revealed to the world via an article in the January issue of SPIN Magazine. I have a 'day job' as the creative director of a videogame/software company, four daughters in elementary school, and a very patient wife.

I'm competing with Warren for most energy drinks and cigarettes consumed. It's a close fucking battle. I'm here to add to the ruination of all things and will do my best to not mention shit like Micronauts.

This is why I don't drink...

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2007-11-28T18:45:52-08:00

I'm Brandi Swenson (Yes my nick is the real unreal me). I work as a web designer at a really small company (you can't see us with the naked eye!). I also work part time at a comic book store. If you are ever there and see a girl working the counter (wink, wink) it's most likely me! Hopefully I will get my butt in gear and get back to school to get a masters soon, then maybe I can get a job that can pay me enough money to afford life.

My hobbies include buying enough manga to suffocate 10 fat men with, looking at pictures of puppies and baby turtles, reading comics, playing video games, and watching anime.

Today is my birthday so far this forum has been the most exciting gift I got. Though I guess it's not hard to beat out the tank of gas my parents got me....

Here is my most recent picture, sadly not with anyone exciting in it.

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2007-11-28T18:46:20-08:00

And another thing about me, if your interested. Fuck, even if you're not...

If I could have any superpower, it'd be the power to make puppies and smiling children burst on sight. Then I'd hang around pet stores all day.

"Daddy, daddy!! Look at the cute pupp--" BANG! "oh my god!! What just happened, daddy??" BANG!! "MY DAUGHTER!! NOOOOOOOO!!"

Yup.

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2007-11-28T18:48:55-08:00

I'm Joseph. I'm 26, work in hotels, live in Pittsburgh and write reviews for Ain't It Cool News under the same name I'll be posting here with. I love comics, hockey, and the punk rock, and look like this:

My mom thinks I'm cute, but she can't really see well anymore on account of the patch.

Cheers...

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2007-11-28T18:50:10-08:00

Hello, I'm Shawn. I live in San Pedro, CA with my wife Sara and our two cats. I work at a book store to help pay the bills, however my real gig is writing. I've finished one novel (needs some serious editing though), started two more and lately have fallen in love with writing screenplays. I LOVE music of all sorts (esp. weird stuff), books, film and comics and good beer.

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2007-11-28T18:52:36-08:00

I'm Howie-- a writer/producer living in sunny/smoggy/(smuggy?) LA.

I've been following Warren's Red-Bull-and-English-weather-induced ramblings since back when his mailing list was "From The Desk Of..."

I write for a TV show you've never head of. My political humor/commentary is here, and my web series is here-- internet videos done by people who have no business making internet videos. Hopefully they bring the funny.

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2007-11-28T18:55:03-08:00

Brad Nelson here. In my 31 years I've been a bouncer, wrestler, talk show host, and my latest test is that of fatherhood. I have an amazing 4-year-old son named Logan and a wonderful wife named Dana. I'm also a writer of comic book stuffs and have a few projects I'm kicking around at the moment. Huge Warren Ellis fan and glad to see the board up and working nice and smooth.

Also, you can find me hanging out WAY too much on Bendis' message board at Jinxworld.com
Nice to meet you all.

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2007-11-28T19:02:02-08:00

Greetings all. I'm Rob, a 37 year old high school English and theater teacher. The little howler monkey clinging to my arm is my niece, Kay.

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2007-11-28T19:05:31-08:00

My name's Jason. I work in the real estate industry in Chicago.

This is me in Paris a few years back. I'm the same, essentially, except minus the glasses.

I have no clue how to make this smaller.

Edit: Smallified the picture a bit --Ariana

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2007-11-28T19:09:28-08:00

Mig Trinidad. Illustrator and story teller. Going to write me one soon... or illustrate. Your pick.

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2007-11-28T19:10:02-08:00

Hello, my name's Steven. Nice to meet ya.
Architect working on one side of the river in Boston, living on the other in Cambridge.
This is me a couple weeks ago in need of a hair cut (which happened shortly thereafter).

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2007-11-28T19:27:15-08:00

Hello Internaughts.
It's your friendly neighbourhood Melon. From Canada.
I'm not too spirited right now, but that will change.
Here's a picture. It's from summer, when it was warm and lovely.

Some day I will bask again in love and warmth but for now... I will watch you and lurk.
I love you.

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2007-11-28T19:36:16-08:00

Warren:
Jessica's here?

I believe she is everywhere.

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2007-11-28T19:43:05-08:00

Sara, those Grinder Gears that you made are great.

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2007-11-28T19:44:48-08:00

That ninja bitch. One of these days I'm going to put a bell around her neck.

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2007-11-28T20:04:35-08:00

Z.S. Lewis... aka RevenArt
artist. writer. poet. movie freak. book slut.

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2007-11-28T20:06:16-08:00

Won't help one bit, Warren.

Mark - thanks. Been thinking about fixturing to make them into an automated... thing...

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2007-11-28T20:14:35-08:00

Joanne. That is the sexiest howard hughes costume i have ever seen.

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2007-11-28T20:20:59-08:00

St Helens bred, New York residing. Blogger, occasional columnist, wannabe writer who spends too much time in the real job these days. Semi official High Moon booster. Beer lover.

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2007-11-28T20:30:57-08:00

Nate; writer, musician, drinker, Moped Rider.

Also, I watched Beowulf last night in 3D - even with a pint of whisky playing accompaniment the movie was awful. Not even funny awful, just awful.

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2007-11-28T20:51:16-08:00

G. W. Ferguson--hardcore mainlining book addict, professional reprobate, mad scientist, occasional blogger, renegade Discordian with SubGeniioid tendencies, collector of skulls, feeder of cats, shooter of firearms, eater of Ramen, disciple/tasty snack of Cthulhu, smoker of cigs, drinker of Diet Pepsi.

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2007-11-28T20:55:10-08:00

roque here. I prefer not to use my real name as I'm too easily googled. however, my sick predilections and my undercapitalization of words make me easily identifiable to anyone who knows me.

I'm a writer, horror fan and Silent Hill fanatic living in Japan. and I've spent all morning looking at this site when I should have been-- at the very least-- bathing.

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2007-11-28T20:56:02-08:00

I'm Emily. Museum specialist. 26. I know more about dead things and evolutionary theory than is entirely healthy.

Note: I don't generally use the Force Lightning. That's just a defense mechanism to make Creationists go away.

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2007-11-28T21:04:05-08:00

Name: Laura
Rank: Graduate student in psychology
Serial number: Stuck in the U.S. South until I finish school. I am most frequently found procrastinating on the intertubes and wondering why I thought grad school was a good idea. The older I get, the more Master Warren's work feels frighteningly true. The closest I have to a web address is Twitter.

I don't have an online picture to link here and I'm too lazy to put one on Flickr. Sorry. I am a real flesh-and-blood,though, I swear.

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2007-11-28T21:10:48-08:00

Force lightning is teh sexxy.

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2007-11-28T21:15:40-08:00

Seb Fowler, web/design/art guy. Currently in Melbourne, (relatively) soon to be in Jakarta.
I quite frequently look like this. Confused, looking at my computer (I've also been known to scratch my head):

Website: http://sebfowler.com/

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2007-11-28T21:23:18-08:00

Zack Guzman, Coastguardsman. I'm an IT, but work on fixing phones more often than fixing computers. Will be moving to Coos Bay, Oregon in a few weeks. Here's me:

I'm not a violent person. That's the only picture of myself I have from the last three years.

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2007-11-28T21:25:50-08:00

house-husband and writer of various things, maintainer of various sites

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2007-11-28T21:26:10-08:00

I'm on the right.

I graduated from Northern Illinois University in August and have been working on breaking into comics since, while at the same time being a butcher. My frist published work will be out this summer, but have been warned under penalty of a horrible beating not to talk about it. Hung at the Engine and still hang at Panel & Pixel.

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2007-11-28T21:27:55-08:00

Dan Mclaney
Husband, Father, working stiff, avid reader, movie watcher, wannabe writer, part-time doodler, blog addict, and daydream believer...

Currently trapped in Southern Alabama, but hopefully escaping the never-ending banjo music sometime next year...

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2007-11-28T21:29:57-08:00

joanne: your state of lush is maintained, i see

warren: i heard that, round eye

sara: well, hello there

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2007-11-28T21:31:27-08:00

I'm David, comics journalist, grad student and blogger (I guess that's a professional term, but I call bullshit on that). I live in NYC.

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2007-11-28T21:31:51-08:00

This was taken recently at a friend's wedding. I'm the one in black tie.

Hi, I'm Dave Hull, and I'm still trying to figure out the rest.

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2007-11-28T21:43:09-08:00

Alcebiades Diniz. Essayist, fellow traveller, translator, copy-proof, book creator and a sort of scholar.

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2007-11-28T21:51:49-08:00

I'm Brian, I'd be a space pirate if I didn't lack ambition.

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2007-11-28T22:05:03-08:00

Great day in the morning (technically)!

Hello all! I'm Brandon Schory, and I spend my working hours alternating between being a worthless college student and a software developer for a software house here in Boston, MA, USA (I am a United-Statesian (we don't own the bloody continent after all) by birth, not by attitude, I hope). More importantly I'm a musician/writer/philosopher in my spare time, a jackass-of-all-trades if you will.

It's good to be back in the realm of Warren in the sweet new chapel that Ariana built where I can once again bask in the internet's warm glowy warming glow. I think I saw Lem in this intro post somewhere too... I have an orange bunny inspired greeting all set up for you Lem, wherever you are. :-)

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2007-11-28T22:34:21-08:00

Demarc

Good luck in Coos Bay, I grew up there. Remember the Mill Casino is right down the road from the Coasty station, and they mix strong drinks. You will need them.

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2007-11-28T22:49:08-08:00

Photo by Eric Labrat

It's nice to see a bunch of familiar faces from around the internet here.

Jason P Olexa here born one early Friday morning, November 13th and named by my parents questionable intentions and love of horror movies. I live in Chicago where I play music and DJ. When I'm not performing I like to read a circuit bend. The constant low voltage electric shocks remind me of the womb. One day I'm going to start a show for the Food Network called MAC AND CHEESE MANIA or MACARONI AND CHEESE OF THE WORLD (BITCHES) where I travel the world and partake in all the combinations of cheese and noodles I can find. Maybe for the 2nd season I can afford a small manservent to follow me around screaming "Dr Taco! Dr Taco!" while caring a piping hot bowl of Kraft Mac and Cheese over his head to clear my palate. This is going to be sweet, yes?

Music Endevors Include:
dustperiod - post laptop shoegaze sugar pill bliss and hum
http://www.myspace.com/dustperiod
(You may recognize the name from being linked from warrenellis.com. It was a surprise to me too.)

DJ Tacopunch - ADD party DJ. I just uploaded a mixtape of Japanese Gabba. I like to call it DJ Tacopunch vs. The Whorrors From Beyond The Red Light District
http://www.myspace.com/djtacopunch

Dance Accident / Dig Dug Dildo - We're a duo bringing circuit bent toys and discarded electronics re-contextualized as party music. We formed three weeks ago and just played our first three gigs last week. So far it's like poking your tongue into a toothless socked and everything is new and exciting. We'll play anywhere in the Chicago area for beer and tacos or a discarded Casio.

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2007-11-28T22:58:41-08:00

Hello,

I am fat.

I am a journalist/writer/photographer from Seattle.
I am very wordy.

you can find pics here: Myspace

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2007-11-28T23:15:56-08:00

Hello everyone....Barry here. I live in North Carolina,and work as a Warehouse Manager. I am working towards opening my own business very soon though.

www.myspace.com/barryh1966

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2007-11-29T00:14:48-08:00

Hi. I'm Adam. During the day, I make copies. At night, I try and write comics. I've had some success at this.

Here's a photo of me eating gelato in Barcelona:

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2007-11-29T00:17:56-08:00

I'm Brandon. I'm based in Portland but I'm currently in Anchorage, Alaska to accumulate some Wealth, upgrade my Inventory, and gain more Experience Points with the hopes of leveling up as a Barista, Comics Writer, Journalist and Boyfriend. After that it's off to work on my Traveling Proficiency some more.

I hope to have the demo issue from my comic, Witch Doctor, finished and available online by the time I'm out of Anchorage.

And, this being one of Ellis' domains, here's the requisite picture of me as Spider Jerusalem about to blow some yuppie's head off.

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2007-11-29T00:20:20-08:00

And why am I the only marker in Alaska on the Member Map so far?

Lester Smiley of The Moon Knights, where are you?

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2007-11-29T00:52:02-08:00

A dude. A dudes dude I'd say.
Obviously I have an art degree,
look how I used photoshop.

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2007-11-29T01:29:54-08:00

From NorCal, which resembles Vineland if you read Pynchon.

The drink of the month for November 2007 is cheap red wine mixed with even cheaper tequila, possible heated with lemon juice and cardamom. Nothing else left in the liquor cabinet. It's the moving day special.

The drug of the month is me keening over an evaporating pool of ammonia.

I've uncovered my collection of vinyl lps. Fair collection of 20th century avant-garde from when I aspired to be a composer. Brings up a memory of a quote from New Observations magazine, talking about the classical music scene, the avant-garde of the 1950's. It was a period of isolation, different movements going on with no communication, people writing without reference to what their peers where up to. The quote is something like "there was a period of time where no-one knew what art was."

Imagine that, a clean slate, like Jesus with a wash-rag, the bravery of the innocent.

Thar be my introduction.

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2007-11-29T02:00:35-08:00

Matt Freeman, former actor, geek, roleplayer and generally interested in Weird Shit.

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2007-11-29T02:37:00-08:00

Hello. I'm Rachael Noel. I sleep rarely, smile often, and carry my camera around with me almost always.

La la la!

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2007-11-29T03:29:54-08:00

I'm me... re-starting my first year in a fine arts degree, not really sure what's going on right now... Kinda fucked up right now. The best time to join a community of fucked up personalities.

Draw a lot. Starting to carry a camera too. Just gained a love of tattoo machines... I like ink.

Maybe there's more to me. Dunno. I'll find out.

Me... the guy.

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2007-11-29T03:54:00-08:00

Josh - geeky IP lawyer person from Atlanta Georgia US side.

It is times like this I really should keep a photo of myself on my computer. But I do not - so will have to dig one up and slap it on here latter. Odds of me forgetting - horribly high.

Anyway. hello to all the entirely new people and hello again to all the other people.

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2007-11-29T03:57:49-08:00

Hey all. My name's Terry - live in the Australian country a little town (but you can't say that here) called Mildura. Poker Machine (Slot Machine for you Americans) technician mainly. I don't write comics/books/tv/music - I'm too busy soaking the good stuff up. My web presence is here and a decent photo?? Hmm (always snapping photos not appearing in them..)

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2007-11-29T03:58:13-08:00

Ryan Heavilin. Used to be a teacher, now a Prison Guard in the redneck capital / asshole of Ohio.

Guarding is better than teaching because I don't have to give a shit when the inmates complain.

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2007-11-29T04:04:09-08:00

Oh my goodness, so many intros in so little time!
*waves at some familiar and new faces*
Joanne: that outifit is SO CUTE on you!! >_<

Emily Knight: we've never met, but that photo is fantastic! hahah. I'll remember not to piss you off. ^_~

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2007-11-29T04:13:59-08:00

My name is Tom Muller, a Belgian graphic designer who's been living in exile in the big smoke for the past 7 years.
I mainly do the usual designery things in RGB & CMYK and dabble in some comic book stuff with Ashley Wood, Liam Sharp and Ivan Brandon from time to time.

I'm sure I can beat Rantz in the cigarette smoking department...

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2007-11-29T04:18:16-08:00

I'm Andreas Fuchs, software hacker (the good kind), living in vienna. I do things enthusiastically or not very well at all.

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2007-11-29T05:41:37-08:00

I'm Joshua "No Relation" Ellis. I'm a professional writer and web designer/developer/consultant, and a semi-professional DJ and musician (meaning I sometimes actually get paid for these things). I have a band, called Red State Soundsystem. (We're very new.) I live in Las Vegas, which is much less fun than it probably sounds.

I do not photograph well, but here is a picture of me taken last week in a cafe in the village of Göreme, in the Cappadocia region of Turkey, in a very silly hat:

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2007-11-29T06:05:39-08:00

Hi all.
I'm David and I draw comics

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2007-11-29T06:07:44-08:00

Jones here. Former proprietor of the comic store experiment Jigsaw, now closed due to way too many issues to bother listing here. Mostly focused these days on talking to my hands (as evidenced by the weird shit on my website), though writing, illustration, and music occasionally happen accidentally, or tangentially.

In this, the most recent photo of me, ~~I have just been served the first decent bit of sushi I've had since moving to the dirty south.~~ looking closer, I have no idea where this photo was taken, though it must have been within a few hours of said sushi gastronomic event.

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2007-11-29T06:10:38-08:00

i'm allison stelling, a fourth year phd student in chemistry so it is my job to pump out as many publications as i can
(link to one of them: http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/jacsat/asap/abs/ja074074n.html ).
basically i shine lasers at proteins. i have an off resonance Raman setup for steady state experiments, and i get time on a very, very nice picosecond resolved pump/probe infrared setup at a lab near Oxord for studying initial photochemical events following excitation in photoactive proteins.

i fear no god save my adviser. the bastard.
(photolinkchainmail)

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2007-11-29T06:29:53-08:00

Hi, I'm Pete Lenz. Former manager of New York's greatest independent bookstore - The Book Revue - in Huntington, NY. Current paper monkey for a publishing company. I enjoy the works of Samuel R. Delany, and Philip K. Dick more than anything else I read, and often think about how much Dick hated Dhalgren. I listen to all type of music and also play videogames. I do write, and I am serious about it, but have nothing published as of yet. I must not be trying hard enough. Here I am -

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2007-11-29T07:07:34-08:00

Hi, I'm Malsain. I live in the Norf of England, and that's ok.

I'm not a writer or drawer or anything, so I don't have to use my full name ;) I'm some kind of (qualified and graduated) photographer, but mostly prefer working with digital images and making them better. Or worse. One day, someone may pay me for it. If I worked in comics, I'd like to colour things in.
I spend a fair amount of time in Second Life, and live over in Fort Stygian, part of The Wastelands. Mainly I mess around with building, exploring, and sometimes meeting people who aren't rubbish.

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2007-11-29T07:09:56-08:00

Hi, Im David. Im a puppeteer/puppet, prop and costume builder/ Voice actor. I sometimes spend my time sitting around thinking up ideas for new cartoon shows.

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2007-11-29T08:21:11-08:00

Hi. I'm Annette, and I manage a college bookstore. In my spare time I don a Japanese schoolgirl outfit and translate manga comics. Except the bit about the outfit. I like rats, comics, books and watching men eat steak. I also like my Guinness.

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2007-11-29T08:22:04-08:00

name's allen...salesman by trade, which probably means i'm not as trustworthy as i think i am. i'll stop short of saying that i'm an aspiring writer because that would have to mean that i write on a regular basis and this is clearly not true. i will, however; read anything i can put my hands on.

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2007-11-29T08:48:36-08:00

Hi, I'm Brian. I'm a Fedora Linux developer living in Ohio. Here's some of what I do over at Fedora: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BrianPepple

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2007-11-29T08:49:41-08:00

Hi. I'm Sami Shah. Based out of Karachi, Pakistan. Am a Journalist by day, working for Pakistan's only English Language news channel Dawn News and spend my nights as a Stand-up Comic and freelance illustrator.

:: bring the funny ::

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2007-11-29T08:54:58-08:00

Benny.

Just a fan.

edit: Had I known I was gonna be the first post in a new page I would have probably put in something more remarkable, but I can't, because I suck.

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2007-11-29T08:56:14-08:00

Some community!!!
Hi, everyone, I'm Juan. Argentine, comic apprentice, artist wannabe; something like a f****ng padawan. For everything. But you'll hear about me in a moment future!!! Nice to meet all of you!

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2007-11-29T09:00:18-08:00

Dan Morris. 26. mini comicer. splitting living between Charlotte and Savannah where I'm going to school for a graphic design degree. amateur photographer (emphasis on amateur).

Occasionally, I ride dinosaurs at racist Southern theme parks

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2007-11-29T09:01:00-08:00

hi. john. i like comics more than people. live and work in new york. transplant from elsewhere. read books, watch movies, watch way too much tv, yet still have time to actually do things.

i really like halloween.

i'll mostly just read and lurk.

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2007-11-29T09:21:04-08:00

I write and publish. Just had a kid:

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2007-11-29T09:29:06-08:00

My name is Willow. (yes, my parents were hippies.)

I believe in the Future.

Finishing up an undergraduate degree (two papers away) with honors in Sociology. Then on to law school to help sort out all the technology, connectivity, and general change occurring (and how inept our current system is at adapting). Someone's got to do it.

I live with Libby and Matt. Libby and I run a club night, I organize a Transhumanist discussion group, serve tables, and am prepping to move. I read every chance I get, don't waste time on TV, and enjoy a good glass of wine.

Seeing how people interact and present themselves is a constant source of amusement and amazement to me.

This is what I look like when I should be writing papers at 2a.

Most of my own ramblings occur here.

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2007-11-29T09:48:29-08:00

I'm Mark. I live in Longmont, Colorado. I'm 33, a husband and father, a lover of all kinds of music (my last.fm profile), comics, science fiction, and whatever new, shiny bit of interestingness grabs me. Oh, and beer and whisky.

I write software for a living. The kind of code that lives down in the guts of stuff. Not the shiny stuff that other, luckier developers get to point at and say "Look! I made that!"

Don't have a good photo to link to. Apologies.

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2007-11-29T09:59:01-08:00

I'm Irene. I live in NYC. I write, photograph, design, make stuff, do stuff, read stuff and eat stuff. I love you, internet.

Here I am, in a car, in LA.

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2007-11-29T10:04:46-08:00

Hi I'm James Sharpe from the midlands in the UK. I'm a film writer and director, mainly shorts at the moment, but building up to features. I'm also a freelance video/film editor and colourist and occasionaly music video director and webcomic creator.

Look at my face:

Actual age: 25

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2007-11-29T10:17:55-08:00

I'm Jo. I read (professionally); I write (unprofessionally); I cause very small amounts of trouble (very unprofessionally). I was a Genius Waitress, and now I'm something else. I live in Virginia, ride a bike, drive a desk, and make great drinks.

Pardon my Facebook.

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2007-11-29T10:19:26-08:00

Hi, I'm Jamie Coville.

I'm known for doing interviews, covering conventions and writing comic history.

So far fates and conspired against me in opening my own comic book store but I'm not done yet on that front.

I used to work in construction, but I'm moving back to call centre work for the time being.

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2007-11-29T10:26:42-08:00

Well, I'm Will. I compulsively write and put the results on my MySpace blog. The fact I use the MySpace blog seems to confuse people. Find it here.

Me, looking like me:

Will

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2007-11-29T10:32:51-08:00

Goddamn it, Irene. I am so jealous of your ability to pull off that hairstyle.
I can't do anything shorter than chin-length. It's all because of my big Korean head. *pout*

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2007-11-29T10:39:54-08:00

What's up, everyone. My name's Kenny. Ex-English Lit Major, soon to be Film Student.

Pleased to meet you-all.

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2007-11-29T10:47:00-08:00

Oh boy a new thing.
I'm Ryan Dunlavey and I draw stuff.
I'm the short one:

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2007-11-29T11:02:59-08:00

I'm Crystal. The screenname "Crystal" was already taken, so I abbreviated it. Xtal. Like Xmas. It's clever.

I live in Sacramento, CA. I'm twenty one. I work at the CA State Treasurer's Office as a personnel expert. I like dogs, beer, and Star Trek. This doesn't make me unique, but it does make me.

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2007-11-29T11:10:38-08:00

im andrew hemmant,

all round bastard, and hater of most things..... except this place...... this place i like.

i do like however imagary, graphic novels and photography.... i once spliced a picture of my mum onto hitlers body with paintshop.... she hasnt spoken to me since.

i am a father of 3 boys, have a wonderful wife who keeps my misery & bile in check.... well her and my daily regement of meds!

would be nice to speak with the people of whitchapel you seem a good likeminded bunch of people

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2007-11-29T12:02:39-08:00

Hiya, Michael here. Professional IT propeller-head by trade, and have been making a living doing that for longer than I care to think about -- but at least I get paid to look busy while fucking off on the Intartubes all day long.

I'm a lifelong geek and nerd, and at 6'3" I'm big enough to break anyone who chooses to wield those terms at me with less than the reverence they deserve. I'm a voracious reader of any media form you put in front of me: novels, comics, cereal boxes... doesn't matter. Missah Ellis fills the niche in my brain that demands dark, intelligent fiction, hence me shambling out of the lurker shadows.

I create, specifically with my hands. I'm an amateur in many fields: photography, illustration, sculpting, special effects makeup, fabrication, and most recently specialty cake baking/shaping (did I mention the whole nerd thing?). I have a passion for the undead. My most recent hobby is discussing the differences in language between my very English girlfriend and myself. She insists that I am speaking "American", due in part to the notable absence of a "u" in many of my words.

Living in Austin (NOT Texas, thankyouverymuch) after being washed out of New Orleans a little over two years ago. Here's an older picture taken in my (pre-hurricane) studio. Now my hair is shorter, my beard is narrower, and both are much grayer. It is a big picture, but lets face it, anyone posting a picture of themselves for the wide world to see should really embrace their own narcissism.

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2007-11-29T12:06:05-08:00

Comte, Christopher Comte, just like the handle says.

Apparently, I'm Warren's older, balder, greyer, heavier Northwestern American Fringe Theatre doppelganger - meaning I'm a hard-drinking bastard who doesn't suffer fools gladly, and has no problem telling people to sod off when they deserve it (Unfortunately, Arse Eels are not native locally. However, I've found that butt-geoducks work just as well.)

I currently work on-staff for the Seattle local of the American Federation of Television And Radio Artists, am facilities manager for Annex Theatre a 21 year-old local fringe theatre company, serve on the local Actors' Equity Association Liaison Committee, run a Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program for performing artists, and do way too much volunteer work for local arts organizations.

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2007-11-29T12:12:20-08:00

My name is Regina. For rent and cigarette money (barely), I play with knives and fire and raw meat and exchange rude comments about sexual orientation with tiny little Ecuadorian guys. I was, at one point, a chef, but now I'm just a rock star line cook.

When I should be sleeping, I'm generally dicking around with computers, soldering bits of garbage together that only people who enter my home will ever see, reading until I can't see straight, or drinking whiskey and molesting absurdly tall industrial DJs.

I'm obsessed with all sorts of music. I play the accordion passably well. I listen to a lot of angry robot music at work. I like to build things that make incredibly irritating sounds.

My brain is generally swimming in a supercharged soup of strong black coffee and nicotine. I look like this, sometimes...

Edit: Oh, I live in the frigid hinterlands otherwise known as Minneapolis.

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2007-11-29T12:26:28-08:00

I'm Tom, skinny, pale londoner, trying to write short stories and comic scripts, owns some lovely pairs of shoes and enjoys both larking and arsing about.

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2007-11-29T12:30:32-08:00

Hello. I'm Stuart; writer, Fortean, gamer, geek, wearer of shades indoors.

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2007-11-29T12:36:07-08:00

wes unruh,
editor at large for alterati.com/blog
freelance writer/pending author.

I do audio editing for RIPPLE
and have my own segment on the G-Spot.

this is me holding something furry:

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2007-11-29T12:43:38-08:00

Hi, I'm Svetlana - I feel like a cow for putting up my SL pic, but that's how I know Warren ;)

I'm an artist and graphic designer, and sometimes do a little bit of work in films that no on has ever heard of :P

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2007-11-29T13:07:14-08:00

i am remote. i have eclectic tastes in comics, books, music, theatre, dance, cinema, tea.
i may regret this in the morning, or you may never get me to shut up. not sure yet.

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2007-11-29T13:08:11-08:00

That is one of the most fantastic pictures I've ever seen!

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2007-11-29T13:11:47-08:00

i took the original and a friend hacked it, so i stole it for here :)

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2007-11-29T13:18:57-08:00

Everyone has such good pictures. Kudos.

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2007-11-29T13:30:35-08:00

Hi folks, well i'm a Design & Technology teacher living in Crewe (home of Rolls Royce, Bentley, and the Limelight Club). Various interests - most of them dovetailing with what you have here.

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2007-11-29T13:36:42-08:00

Hello everyone, I'm Rob Frisbee. I'm from Minneapolis, MN originally but now live and work in Los Angeles. I recognize a few faces from former boards, and I'll try to be less a lurker on this one than in the past, and more interactive. I admit to being completely hopeless when it comes to online photo-linking, so rather than do something that blows up the thread (and incurs wrath), I'll link to my myspace for now...

myspace.com/robfrisbee

I'm a transactional attorney by day, aspiring writer by night (http://www.finaldraft.com/events-and-services/big-break/winners-finalists-2007.php). It's good to be here, and I look forward to getting to know everyone and chatting about science, books, writing and all the other goodies that pop up in Warren's platforms.

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2007-11-29T13:38:02-08:00

Hi I'm Cary and I'm a drug addi....oh...wrong room. Hi I'm Cary and I'm a unknown comic book artist but hopefully that will change in a few years. I'm a staff artist for Approbation comics and also working on a Graphic Novel Horror anthology of which I get to do 22 pages. I'm also Bi-polar. Don't know why I needed to put that down. Anywho, enjoy the maddess.

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2007-11-29T13:51:13-08:00

Brian, 25, Chicago.

Soldier sailor, physician laborer, actor scientist, mechanic priest.

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2007-11-29T13:55:52-08:00

Hi, my name is Brad...I make my money off the corporations and I do TheComicCollective.com for my nerves.

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2007-11-29T14:01:01-08:00

Hi, I'm Rob, I'm 25, and I'm a law student in Philadelphia, PA.

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2007-11-29T14:01:18-08:00

Luke.

I get paid to read about awesome science and tell people how incredible it all is (and why they're idiots for not being more excited about it). I get paid a bit more to research laser physics but being confined to one field cramps the style. I write.

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2007-11-29T14:09:12-08:00

Hi, everyone.
My name is Sveinung. I'm 23 years old, a nihilist, and a fan of Warren's work and online rambling since Transmetropolitan.
I live in Oslo, Norway, and if you ever arrive here by plane, and end up with your luggage intact, I'm the one to thank. I'm the one throwing them around.
Other than loads of comics, I plow through alot of books. Most recently stuff like Frank Herbert, Philip K.D, Nietzsche and Gibson.
I listen to music almost every waking hour.

...and this is me, doing my best James Bond/Disgruntled Wrestler combo impersonation (also featuring the lush nature of my home town on the west coast).

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2007-11-29T14:13:18-08:00

Luke, I envy you for your job (and your balloons).

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2007-11-29T14:27:43-08:00

evening, i'm robb. forgive me for not posting one more photo of a skinny pale white guy. i'm a graphic designer and adjunct typography prof whom is grumblingly moving to fucking brooklyn, where at least they have dog-friendly landlords unlike boston, and will earn a freelancer's wage lettering (not the comic variety) and illustrating things. i worry about what this board will do to my productivity.

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2007-11-29T15:12:43-08:00

Jim Reddington, artist/graphic designer/teacher.

http://reddjam.com

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2007-11-29T15:40:19-08:00

Hello All, Dave3 here. I'm the creative force behind the *wildly* popular comic and geeky-type entertainment etc. website, Geeks of Doom.

What we learned from this experience:
No matter how many electrodes they attach to my head... still can't figure me out.

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2007-11-29T15:49:41-08:00

Hi, I'm Colin, originally from Dublin, Ireland but now usually found in Southern California, Texas, and New York. I'm a writer, publisher, radio producer, presenter and comics enthusiast of many years. My day to day stuff is posted up on http://thecolin1.livejournal.com and I tumble blog at http://thecolin1.tumblr.org

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2007-11-29T15:57:49-08:00

Peter, better known around the internet as Redwynd. Don't remember where I came up with that, hadn't even hit middle school when that became my full-time alter-ego.

My tastes are, by and large, eclectic. Musically, I've been known to run the gamut of classic rock to post-punk indie-pop, with some detours into Electronica, R&B, classical and just about anything else that sticks a chord. I like reading(Gibson, Dickens, Sun Tzu, Shakespeare, Ayn Rand, Heinlein and the like), and sometimes, in my more delusional moments, like to pretend I know something about books. I also play video games, though that hobby has been waning.

I also have an armchair interest in politics, both local and international, sociology, psychology, and Eugenics. I work nights at a gas station, mainly because it affords me the opportunity to sit around reading and get paid for it, while occasionally being an arse to the all-consuming, never-seeing, scum-suckers that make up the public at large (no offense to present company).

A pleasure to meet you all.

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2007-11-29T16:55:10-08:00

Hello

Tristan Henry-Wilson freelance illustrator at thewhiteleaf.com

Self Portrait of Artist On Twenty Sixth Birthday, Ad idem, Revelation 9:6
8.5 x 11
Ballpoint Pen on Recycled Paper
Drawn From Life

cheers!

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2007-11-29T16:55:23-08:00

Hi all! I'm Paul, lawyer from California, and I don't have some kind of half-assed self-portrait to post, so you get me looking vague, smiley, and unkempt.

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2007-11-29T17:00:58-08:00

Hell, I've even known people who have started out fictional and then become their own invention.

Yes, I fear I'm one of those. I started off as John Robinson and then I created Widgett as a joke and next thing I knew he had a last name and was writing his own stuff and. Well. My life is sort of like THE DARK HALF if it had been written by Mel Brooks. Except without the catchy tunes. So. Crap.

Anyway, ahem. John Robinson and Widgett Walls then. Writer, webmaster, director of Needcoffee.com.

Here I am in my office, the TechnoCave, lit only by computer monitors and the critters there who have achieved bioluminescence.

And yes, I look exactly like Orson Welles if he had let himself go at an earlier age.

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2007-11-29T17:04:53-08:00

I don't have a cheek-in-profile shot to share either, Paul, don't feel bad.

Besides, I think Tristan just trumped the mobile wielding lot.

So far, we've seen: Second Life avatars, racist dinosaurs, kittens, babies, and a bunch of 'Here I am with Warren' shots. I'm mesmerised and a bit afraid.

- Z

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2007-11-29T17:18:44-08:00

Hello, I'm Ian Rennie, an englishman now living in Cornelius, NC

I'm a librarian in a public library, concentrating a lot on comic books and graphic novels and other ways of subverting the young.

I am, in a very very minor way, a published writer (2 book reviews and counting) and hoping to become a published writer in a not-minor way. I've written a couple of novels that are unpublished as yet, and I'm working on ideas for several others.

other than that, I spend too much time playing browser based games like Kingdom of Loathing and Lunar Wars, and not enough actually being a 29 year old grownup.

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2007-11-29T18:42:55-08:00

LARRY YOUNG--
Congrats on the kid, man! I somehow missed that bit of news.

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2007-11-29T18:48:18-08:00

Phil Higgins, pseudonym because I'm too lazy to try to remember yet another site login.

Tech support monkey for a small ISP/Colo facility in Minneapolis-St. Paul, still fairly new at it, but by far the best support monkey job I've ever had. Sometimes I code monkey for myself as well over at motorballer.org, but these days its mostly sporadic bloggings. Spare time hobbies pretty much consist of consuming as much entertainment as I can (primarily) in the form of books, comics, anime, and video games. I've also been a lot more active with my digital camera of late and have just ponied up for FlickrPro status, as I insist that all of my terrible photos remain available to inflict upon the internet, with occasionally awesome shots showing up now and again. A couple of the aforementioned terrible photos of myself that I was slow to get around to uploading:

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2007-11-29T19:17:13-08:00

Terence, 37, been reading comics for 34 years, and wishes that "pop culture geek" was a profession one could actually make money at. But short of that, law will do.

My one and only piece of Transmet fanfic. Behold the horror.

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2007-11-29T19:33:55-08:00

Hello All.

I’m Clayton. In no particular order I am:
A middle school Art Teacher
A father of daughters – and tremble for they are mighty
A sculptor
A husband
A painter
A damn fine cook
A follower of the Internet Jesus - Ellis - Fill my brain with visions
An alternative certification trainer and presenter – I teach folks to become teachers
A herder of cats
A reader of a host of different things – currently have 3 different books all going at the same time and a multitude of periodicals, newspapers [the old fashioned paper kind – just love the feel of paper in my hands], comics, and all sorts of electronic feeds
A gamer
And in the words of Yul Brynner, in “The King and I”

Etcetera, etcetera, ETCETERA

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2007-11-29T19:42:53-08:00

Hey all.

I'm a former radio/computer geek and current wood/paint/dancing nerd. I spend most of my time in the bleak, sad world that is my paint booth. I try to make up for it by creating things that I find pretty. Sometimes people pay me money to play with sharp knives and fire.

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2007-11-29T19:53:28-08:00

Heyo all, I am Chuck.

I tend to write too little, record too many ideas, and draw occasionally. I am a big fan of Warren's work. Then again why else would any of you be here? I also am a professional non-sleeping humanoid who has a day job. Just look at those rings around my eyes, those are the real deal of sleep deprivation.

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2007-11-29T20:03:09-08:00

Why didn't I get here earlier?

Hi! I'm Erik! I'm a 27 year old college drop-back-in and wanna be writer. I "work" for an in-flight entertainment company. But don't bitch at me when you have to watch Unaccompanied Minors on overhead this holiday season. That's not my fault.

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2007-11-29T20:11:20-08:00

Oi... I'm Ian.
Undergrad thats going to graduate soon. Philosopher, traveler, writer (maybe).
I work at a shitty big chain bookstore (guess which!), but my direct boss has a badass mustache, so it's okay.
I have insomnia.
I enjoy long walks on the beach... wait... no... nvm.

I'm fascinated by anything I haven't heard of before, and a lot of the things I have heard of before continually distract me from the new things, so I tend to keep myself busy. If I've heard of it, I know at least something superficial about it, but usually something more in depth... some specific areas of knowledge are religion, philosophy, the occult, literature, bikes, music, survival, computers, stereo equipment, liquor (scotch), movies, body modification, and meditation - to name a few.

My visage is un-capturable by your primitive photography machines...
Not really I just hate photographs of myself... I think there are some in my flickr feed, which is in my profile, if you really care what I look like.

Meh... I don't really have anything else interesting to say right now... I'll troll some more and find more topics to respond to...
~Ian

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2007-11-29T20:26:13-08:00

I'm Steve. I run a comic shop, and am working towards opening my own. I'm 25. I like listening to and playing music, collecting religious cult memorabilia (go Process!), movies, and good books. I've been lurking the different incarnations of the Ellis forums since way back, but never really got around to participating. Now that I have my sweet sweet broadband card, I can actually do that.

This is me:

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2007-11-29T20:38:11-08:00

Sean May here, amateur comic book writer, amateur journalist...but I'm in college so I suppose all of that amateur stuff is acceptable for the next couple of years
This is a picture of me chatting with Skottie Young

umm...I'm the one on the right

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2007-11-29T20:59:20-08:00

Badman7

Hello, darling.

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2007-11-29T21:46:15-08:00

Alex Martin here. College, which is Sixth Form college, Leeds. I write, but I'm sure I don't even pass the bar at amateuring so I'm withought a title. The same goes for comic book writing, only plenty less experience, mostly hindered by the lack of friends who can draw. No picture unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you view some tired old cliché about your monitor breaking.

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2007-11-29T22:18:22-08:00

Yeah, hi. I'm Matty. Former bouncer, wearer of Old Spice, construction laborer, and aspirant artist and writer of comic books, aging gracelessly in America's Heartland. What I look like isn't as important as what I have to say, so I opt to skip the part about posting a picture of myself.

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2007-11-29T22:24:56-08:00

hi everyone. i'm steven huls, wef and engine refugee, aspiring comics artist, and tech support dood. here's my most recent picture, at the dairy queen in my hometown of kemp, texas.

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2007-11-29T22:30:01-08:00

Hi. I'm Adam. Australian. Husband & Father. Writer. Warren Ellis board junkie. A novel, two poetry collections, some minicomics and zines. Working on another novel. Starting out with the comic scripting thing too. Had some small bites from some anthologies. Finding artists is hard. Finishing scripts to my satisfaction is harder. Very early days. We shall see.

This is me at Breakfast in Thailand last year. My hair is much messier at the moment.

Hi.

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2007-11-29T23:12:15-08:00

I'm Liam, I've been stalking Mr Ellis online in various forms for a few years now. My talents include olympic level forum lurking, IT related sorcery that amazes the user population, worship of a dark and powerfull goddess (my wife, hi honey) and an online body count that would make Hitler weep with envy.....

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2007-11-29T23:15:29-08:00

I'm Brian Crowley former Graphic Designer with Devil's Due,
now freelance letterer for Image, DDP and used to do work for Fangoria.
Primarily working at an Ad Agency specializing in New Media in Downtown
Chicago as a Graphic Designer and Illustrator.

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2007-11-29T23:35:16-08:00

I'm Lyle, a graduate writing student and recently laid off computer programmer (Silicon Valley. Oi.)

Here's the crappiest picture I could find. You're welcome.

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2007-11-29T23:40:56-08:00

Hello to all, I am jenn. Student of theatre right now (makeup as well as acting). Trying to start up work on a low budget horror film to effectively combine the two.

I love to read science fiction and comics when not smacking my head against Shakespeare (and his damn sentences that are longer than the name of god).

I shall endeavor not to make any messes on your lovely new board.

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2007-11-29T23:50:01-08:00

Holy shit.

Excuse my french but I was just browsing through reading some of these and glancing at the pictures and I noticed Wil Wheaton. That's amazing. I'm not generally an online lurker but there are some things/people I can't help but lurk around. And Wil Wheaton is one of them.

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2007-11-30T00:00:48-08:00

I'm not sure if it's bad manners or not to post twice in here, I mean, I'm not reintroducing myself or anything, but there are lots of people with fine hats. I must get myself a fine hat. I'm looking at Crowley especially. That's a fine hat, sir. I must find an establishment through which I could purchase a fine hat. Also, yes, Adamatsya - there are far too few artists willing to trust me out there. Also, I believe this is my first Warren Ellis board. It looks exciting?

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2007-11-30T02:04:53-08:00

hello, i'm cragum.
i prefer to remain internet-anonymous, and so while i'm perfectly happy to say hello (nice to meet all you folks!), i'm unlikely to elaborate about my life much.

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2007-11-30T03:21:54-08:00

I'm Fredrik, people tell me I'm 33 but I refuse to listen. I'm a 3D-animator, stuck in the gaming industry but with delusions of film.

When I don't work I practice Wudang Tai Chi Chuan, go clubbing or nerd it out in front of the computer. I do game design as a hobby, I'm also heavily addicted to electronic music.

I have more ideas than time to realize them which makes me sad.

I prefer fiction over reality, the landscapes of the imagination are so much more seductive than the real world. I wish I had more interest in it, though, because deep down I'd like to help make it a better place.

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2007-11-30T03:58:57-08:00

Hey, everyone

Here is Renato Mazzini speaking. I'm not italian, though I share a second name with the man who invented the first concept of the Mob. I'm a teacher, lawyer, music reviewer, writer, (former)radio-station soundmachine operator and current pignasty collector for a ranch of a couple of friends of mine (they have lovely kids). I interviewed Warren Ellis for a hardcore variety website we kept online a couple years ago (now temporarily off) and since he didn't tell me to fuck myself off with my own guts I have been tracking his web vestiges down. I live in Brazil with my girlfriend.

Good to meet you all.

--R.

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2007-11-30T07:09:06-08:00

Hello all,
I've posted a couple of times and figured it was time to stop acting shy.

Brandon Whitesell.
I used to be freelance designer, until i became financially unsuccessful. Now i work for the department of environment in my state, trying to cram aesthetics down the throats of curmudgeons.
I'm a musician at heart (some linky goodness at bsidedesign.com) and have my first official release coming to the interwub download services (emusic, itunes, et al) inside of the month - you can preview it here: www.onlookersounds.com -

I used to bea comics reader, but college ruined that for me (no money, you know).
Then I saw the cover art in the solicitation for Brian Wood's Local and wondered where I had been. Fell got me the same way and around the same time. I wanted to join in the fray at the Engine, but was ultimately too bashful. Now, i think i'm drunk on coffee.

Good to "meet" you. Hope to make some friends.
b

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2007-11-30T07:52:21-08:00

I'm axel. I do stuff with computers and they do stuff with me. I'm not good with normal people. Tend to attract "freaks". And I'm cool with that.

This is me some 10 years ago.

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2007-11-30T08:11:37-08:00

My name is Victor. I am an interaction designer from Grand Rapids, MI. I work for a studio called People Design. You can check out random fragments of my life here, here and here.

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2007-11-30T08:31:40-08:00

hello, i'm frenchbloke. also known as stuart, and not french. can't speak a word of it. scottish, almost 40 and residing in the south west coast of scotland. I make noises that some people buy (sometimes) .i type in lower case as i'm a lazy git. I used to do this, sometimes do this and rarely appear in photographs much preferring to take them. like this one

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2007-11-30T09:12:16-08:00

Hello. I'm Vanessa. I'm just some girl who makes artificial neural networks and applies them to largely irrelevant musical tasks. I am unable to stop taking photos; sometimes I post some of them.

I'm Canadian, but at this particular moment I'm in London. I will likely be more active when I'm home again since for now I'm just getting by with enough occasional cafe internet access to barely survive.

I look something like this (or at least I did for a tiny moment there in the right light) :

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2007-11-30T09:34:30-08:00

I am Ian Dutton. the last time i goggled my name i found out that i am a prick of a pilot living in New York city and needed to get my real identity online lest archaeologists and historians for ever confuse my future accomplishments with that ass. i am also a biologist doing some kind of study in Malaysia or some such seems cool and smart, ill get a photo here soon.

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2007-11-30T09:49:09-08:00

I am Lee Newman. I am a Comic Book Shop Manager. I am also a writer. But mostly I am a crabby single dad who still hasn't grown up yet.

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2007-11-30T11:23:23-08:00

My name is Scott. I am a graphic designer by education, a cartoonist at heart, a musician in desire, a revolutionary in want, a tattoo artist in design, a reader by default, a writer in question, and religious in explanatory repose.

In other words, I'm confused. How are ya.

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2007-11-30T12:04:51-08:00

writer. teacher. student. artist. in formulation. making it up as i go along.

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2007-11-30T12:12:44-08:00

making it up as i go along.

The great human passtime.

Will

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2007-11-30T12:28:54-08:00

hey all, i'm Kevin Mellon.

i draw some comics.

GearHead from Arcana. Thirteen Steps from Desperado. CUPID coming next summer from AiT/PlanetLar. some others sometime soon.

kevinmellon.com

-mellon

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2007-11-30T12:59:03-08:00

Hi all,

I'm Dan and I write. Also, edit.
Words in English and code in something less ambiguous than English.
Sometimes in a pithy fashion. Not always though

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2007-11-30T12:59:46-08:00

A few people still know me as Edward Wilson...
I'm a writer. I'm let's say ninety percent done a book on Memetics and Social Networks with Wes Unruh.
After that I'm already 6000 words into a book titled Space/Time/Punctuation.

I don't take many pictures of me but this is me at esozone on no sleep, lots of energy drinks, lots of alcohol, and who knows what other substances:

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2007-11-30T13:22:51-08:00

I'm Julia, 23, Brazilian, living in London right now... Trying to figure out how to be useful, whatever that's suppose to mean

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2007-11-30T14:31:40-08:00

Unimportant, joiner by trade, provocateur of many talents by general mental status, and other nonsense.

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2007-11-30T16:53:41-08:00

Unimportant, joiner by trade
-Doc Ocassi

Nice to see that I'm not the only one here. Woohoo for multitalented woodworkers!

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2007-11-30T17:12:12-08:00

368 of these things so far, eh? Pretty good. But I haven't the faintest idea of how to go about creating any thing clever. I can't figure out how to put one of my stupid pictures on here or any thing. I won't lie and say I'm a writer or drug addict or supposed religious nut or any of those other suckeyed mule type of things. I will type professionally and there won't be any intentional typos on this damn thing either. The writing will be neat and transposed. I won't be able to write to you from a mobile device in some pub some where for the simple reason I'd have to drive, and I won't drive drunk. I can't. Sure, I could, but I won't. I'd rather say hello and hope that something clicks. Some day it might but I really think it won't. Not pessimistic, just realistic...I try. I really do...but, if this is effort, you and maybe I can some day see that we know why, it really wasn't ever going to be that I'd be a full time paid writer and loved my life a lot as a result. No. I'm just a frustrated monorail pilot in Orange County some where. Maybe Shell City, maybe not. Maybe in Florida, maybe not. You decide. This is your chance to reject or accept. I am out of the picture. I refuse to accept responsibility with it any more. I'm the stupid git who bought a pen I can't get refills for. I'm the gat-damned idiot who quit my one dentist and went with another and found out later after buying a 700.00 lava/coral tooth cover, that my dentist office doesn't do fridays...I have fridays off...so what the f-ning hell? Why would I blow off a day at work to be in the dentist office on a day to get the tooth cover for which I can't afford because I'm skipping work? I quit my old time dentist because I was tired of getting a crown every time I went in. It was too much. Now, I have a half and a temporary. What is it all about? Grinding and not sleeping. Snoring and apnea....who knows. Who knows. I don't really care for these things. They are a waste of time. Who does them? You hear about people doing them and you wonder. And then you go about reading books. It's not Alphaville. It's Zeroville. Just read Steve Erickson's latest. I love it. Great read. Most accesible book of his to date. Still spilling his philosophy and all, and I'd like to meet with him again some day...same goes for Warren...hard to imagine I'm older than Warren and younger than Steve. Both are with gorgeous lovely women and have careers and are happy. I have neither. Oh well...not going to feel sorry for myself...no sense there...I would and have traded the idea of marriage for the struggle of writing and maybe getting to where I can have some stuff to sell...I have a thing or two and no one thinks a bit to say to me. It's crap obviously and no one with any money to buy is looking because I haven't got it to them...every one here is probably here because in their quietest moments they're lonely for some damn reason. It's a world out there or in here and there's something to it but yet I can't help but feeling that there's a...there's some kind of gimp factor to it as well. People want something out of it. There's a kind of look at me thing to it...I just don't...get it...I don't know why I do it....I've wanted to delete all of this....several times...I've kept going...don't know why....I'll just stop. Hope it prints...is accepted...and try to do no more. I'm going to Pisgah to see a man about a dog. (Translation: I'm off to piddle around by my lonesome right now so let me go, unhindered.)

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2007-11-30T17:49:52-08:00

My name is Dwight L. MacPherson and I am a writer of comic books, short stories, poetry and--when I finish it--a novel.
You can find out more about me HERE and read my webcomics "The Surreal Adventures of Edgar Allan Poo" and "Kid Houdini and the Silver Dollar Misfits" on The Chemistry Set.

Here is a picture of me with Red Sonja at Heroes Con...

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2007-11-30T17:53:54-08:00

Hi, I'm blake peterson. I write a little bit. A high school is going to perform a play I wrote about high school girls. Rather than provide a vehicle for escape, I'm serving to remind them how awful their experience is. Hooray!

I also make weird little videos occasionally.

I don't have a good picture of it, but I dressed up as Snake Plisskin from Escape From New York for Halloween. Unfortunately everyone I work with is too young to have seen the movie. They all thought I was Captain Ron.

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2007-11-30T18:29:26-08:00

Hey, I'm Marcia. Once upon a time I was one of Warren's filthy assistants.

These days I earn my keep as a web coordinator. In my spare time I mostly write stories about gay lawyers.

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2007-11-30T18:46:02-08:00

Hi, I'm Sarah. When I'm not probing the bowels of the internet, I teach English at a Japanese high school, and take a few pictures on the side.

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2007-11-30T18:47:49-08:00

Hello, I'm Chris. Sorry for the delay, I needed a picture of myself (hate the filthy things). It's not a great picture but it is unfortunately all that I have to work with.

I live in Cleveland, Ohio and I write role-playing games. I would say that I do it for a living but that would mean making some money at it.

I have a blog called Dorkland.

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2007-11-30T20:18:27-08:00

Some call me James. Often because this is my name. I am computer internet IT nerd, with pretensions of paper-maché mastery. Been into online comics discussions since the ancient days of rec.arts.comics, before the Morris sendmail worm... before the dream of the interwebz. I learned of Yummy Fur and Cowboy Wally and other "black and whites". Was schooled in The Ellis at Burning Man a few years ago. I think the San Francisco Bay Area is the only place in this country I could live without self-destructing.

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2007-11-30T22:31:39-08:00

hello all.

i have no pic as I'm on my phone.

professionaly i am a kitchen manager at an upscale resturant (as upscale as you get in iowa)

i will someday make the transtion to writting, and then hopefully, bar owning, politics or music. you can check tha at http://www.revfds.com

my main intrests lie in science fiction(or fact), history(pre gun), and fantasy.

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2007-11-30T23:18:57-08:00

I'm Ben Brown, unpublished writer occasional photographer and the man once described as "a big teddy-bear, screaming obscenities." I live in a small town in northern California and pay the bills working as a crime reporter for a newspaper, though I'm looking for employment in the crap-shoveling industry.
As I live in a tiny town where there is nothing to do, I can most commonly be found holed up on my couch reading, listening to music, watching movies, writing and generally exposing myself to stimuli unfit for people outside the control of an experiment, which is, incidentally, what I'm doing here.

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2007-12-01T01:03:12-08:00

Name's Cameron Akers. Tech support/server Babysitter here in Raleigh, NC, USA.

Writer for gutterbleed.com -- in which I'm doing my best to review comic books and spread the word about the Good Stuff out there. Just recently started up, so I've been trying to get my tone and language down pat. Be gentle if you go check it out.

No picture, as I don't believe I have posed for a photo since high school graduation, which was 15 years ago!

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2007-12-01T01:05:37-08:00

Hello interwubs!

My name is Nikki and i'm a grad student in computer engineering.

Most of what i do in grad school is cook. And eat. And think about cooking and eating. You can see the sort of toll this has taken on me:

When i was younger, i used to tell people i wanted to be Warren Ellis when i grew up, because he gets all the chicks. Unfortunately i am a lady. So this dream will never come true.

Anyway! Onward and upward!

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2007-12-01T01:13:27-08:00

Hello!

Andi Szilagyi here, better half of Joe Szilagyi.

Currently working for a comic store in Seattle, WA, and trying to make writing a hobby via this. Which is nowhere near done.

Here is a picture, which may or may not be what I currently look like:

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2007-12-01T01:26:27-08:00

Hey everyone. I'm Dave.
In no particular order: American. Early 30s. US Navy veteran. Single. Dating. Cat owner. Subaru owner. Music lover. Computer geek. Aspiring writer. Voracious reader (which goes hand in hand with aspiring writer). Deadpan humor. Damn fine cook. Sneaker fan. MAKEr. Browncoat. Second Lifer. Gearhead. Loather. #400.

My little sister and I at MSG. Three guesses who we're there to see.

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2007-12-01T01:32:20-08:00

I'm William Howard, comic book addict and longterm tertiary student.

I also just got a thoroughly bad photo of me, so:

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2007-12-01T01:38:33-08:00

My actual name is Joshua Pantalleresco, but since "Mr. Pants" is what people call me, I just go with it. I self published a book of Poetry called "I Am..." which I'm hoping to make new copies of soon. In the meantime, I'm aspiring to break into novels and comics. I rant about various things at my livejournal and also have a love of comics, books of all kinds, video games, girls, and have the ability to make tinctures and know more about alternative health than is sane. I work for Coppervale.

Mr. Pants.

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2007-12-01T01:52:10-08:00

Hello, all. I'm Streebo - an entirely fictitious version of myself. I'm smarter, funnier, better looking, and actually make more money than my real life counterpart. Writer. Director. Professional Bull Shit Artist. I have a few of those web thingies floating around:

Mutantville.com

You can watch my videos over here: Mutantville Players on Youtube.

I enjoy bothering people whose work I admire with idiotic questions. Warren Ellis. Matt Fraction. Dr. Geoff Klock. I look forward to annoying some of you one day.

In my spare-time, I enjoy challenging comic creators to Highlander style duels to the death. That is - until Matt Fraction kicked my ass at Heroes this year. I'm currently awaiting my next incarnation on the Wheel of Life.

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2007-12-01T01:55:51-08:00

Hey folks. Name's Matt, most internet people refer to me as DJ. Big time video game guy. Eat, sleep, n' breathe them. Doing my best to make a living in the industry (which ain't easy when you're hideous at math and don't want to be a code monkey). Live in an apartment in San Jose with my girlfriend, two other girls, and three cats. Life could be worse.

This is me:

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2007-12-01T01:56:49-08:00

Greetings. My SN's DarkKnightJRK, but Jared is preferable.

I'm 19 years old, currently in college, an aspiring writer and journalist, a qualified theater actor, a comic book geek, an opinionated bastard, and a sexy bitch when dressed like this:

No, I do not own the zoot suit. Yes, I occasionaly weep knowing this fact.

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2007-12-01T02:27:15-08:00

That is a pretty suit, though.

/me points out that in the photo he put up a few pages back, he's wearing his tail coat, even if you can't really tell. Tails he owns.
/me does a happy dance

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2007-12-01T02:36:01-08:00

Why hello there, I'm Emily and having just graduated with an English Literature degree I am both trying to avoid getting a real job and doing my best to suppress my sudden unnatural cravings for more theory. I am one the the promoters of the dodgy goth club Betty Ford Clinic, I am permanently wired on caffeine, I am suspicious of the outside world and photographs of me (aside from this one).

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2007-12-01T02:46:01-08:00

I'm Colin.

I've been following Warren around the interweb for a few years after reading some of his comics. Gamer, grandfather, comic book reader, professional copywriter, sad geek, happy husband. Dodgy picture to follow.

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2007-12-01T02:57:06-08:00

I am short,I work on many things.If you truly have a desire to know more you can look at my site http://www.jaborwhalky.com

or my little LJ Bascaly I am Evelyn and I do Evelyn type things..

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2007-12-01T03:17:47-08:00

henri here, just signed on to be a comic book writer at ape, so hopefully my soul will not turn black and nasty until the first issue comes out.
Also, I work as an sfx artist in the movie industry.

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2007-12-01T03:30:03-08:00

Greg, 29 and a half, Northern Irish but living in NE England. Full time physicist, increasingly sporadic pop culture writer, misanthrope and hermit.

Bad camphone pic:

I'm the one with pink-eye and fluorescent teeth who looks like they've just murdered someone...

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2007-12-01T03:37:50-08:00

Hi,

Craig here, editor-in-chief of new comics website Comics Village, attempting to be a weekly Borderline perhaps - well, we've three of the original creators of it on board, so why not? I've been involved in promoting comics via these sorts of websites for seven or eight years, and hope to feature or interview as many of you creators here as possible...

Cheers!
-- CraigRJ

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2007-12-01T03:58:59-08:00

Hi, my real name is Molly but I prefer to be called Porkshanks. I am 32 but am currently working on deconstructing my identity to the point where no label comfortably fits. Why? Because it feels good to me. Also, I love the privacy I get by being so apparently out of touch with society that only the 'right' people approach me.

That sort of 'probably too honest for a board post' tripe aside, I make my living doing custom jewelry for people and working on designing new sorts of clothing and props. Currently gathering forces for a crazy serialized moving image project, which is certainly daunting but I am highly driven to create and this is my dream project finally materializing.

nice to meet you all!

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2007-12-01T04:07:28-08:00

Who would have thought that a simple hello would entail so much pointless, inhuman drudgery? I have to CLICK BUTTONS. It's like the Dark Ages. Worst comment system ever. Please delete everything except for beer.

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2007-12-01T04:15:18-08:00

Hi, my name is Daniel, I came here via Bad Signal. I've read comics since I was 5, work in a box store behind a sand dune and pray for X-mas to be over.

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2007-12-01T05:30:51-08:00

Chad Clark. Sales Rep. A husband and father (of two of the cutest kids ever). Bit of a dreamer but with none of the creative drive I had in my twenties which saw me writing, acting, drawing, and even some low level programming. Now into my thirties I enjoy the American Dream of raising my kids, keeping my wife happy, holding down a decent job, barely covering the bills, and generally being disgusted with the state of US politcs. Maybe that's the direction my life will take in my forties, I'm a liberal Republican. The one constant in my life has been reading - I've always enjoyed reading books, comics, magazines, newspapers, and for the last 18 years - the internet.

Listen in on my thoughts and deeds at www.comicfoil.com... a big waste of your time probably but it amuses me.

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2007-12-01T05:42:46-08:00

Hi, I'm Enrico, but everybody usually call me Pixel.

I work in a comic shop and sometimes as a dj. I live in a little, tiny, stupid city in Italy: Vicenza (the one with the biggest american forces base in Europe and where poor Mike Wieringo was born, by the way)

And Warren Ellis scares me a lot.

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2007-12-01T05:53:45-08:00

Bill Ritter. Information Technology Project Manager/Contract Manager for the Federal Guv'ment. Married 7 years so far (to a criminal forensics profiler, so burying the bodies is challenging). Have 5 cats as evidence of my unbounded love for the wife (and because she already knows where the bodies are buried). Own over 100,000 comics, and read most of them. I've been collecting pretty nonstop since 1976 and most of my 38 years of life. Over the years have written a digital ton of fiction stories and scripts, hoping to one day finish one/some, maybe even something polished, interesting and publishable (if all three have been achieved, even better).

Lovely being here, thank you sincerely.

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2007-12-01T06:23:03-08:00

Benjamin Rooney

I am an American studying in Düsseldorf for my master's degree in Japanese. I support myself with a steady job as a code monkey and an unsteady one as an interpreter and translator. My dream is to be a college professor in languages and history.

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2007-12-01T06:24:40-08:00

Hi, my name's Ian.

I'm a computer games designer by trade, I do a little small press comic writing (Newcastle has a really thriving comics scene) and some other stuff.

Also, I blog about comics and games here.

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2007-12-01T06:43:20-08:00

I'm Brian. I co-host the Kryptographik podcast when I'm not slaving away in a cubicle farm. I first started reading Warren's writing with Hellstorm #12 (hence the name).

On our latest podcast, we discussed Doktor Sleepless #1-3 - for 45 minutes.

No, I'm not kidding. See for yourself.

These are artists Grant Bond and Ken Wolak's interpretations of my photo.

This is what happens when you go out drinking with the creators of The Living Corpse...

I have good friends.

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2007-12-01T06:52:47-08:00

My name's Will, as my amazingly creative username would lead you to believe. I'm 27, and I'm building myself a cabin while I work as an office drone for the time being. Like everyone else on the planet, I want to eventually make a go at writing. I love music, books, comics, film, and whiskey. Oh, and I'm slowly but surely amassing a collection of everything that Ellis has ever written. I'm having a rather good time with that.

Will

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2007-12-01T07:00:47-08:00

Craig Oxbrow, holder of a sufficiently weird last name to use it as a moniker. Art gallery ground troop. Filthy dice geek. Follower of Doktor Ellis's work since Blast! Writing a horrendously violent young adult adventure novel.

Here I am demonstrating my impression of a vampire from Buffy and about to receive a much more convincing kick in the face.

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2007-12-01T07:14:25-08:00

Greetings all, I'm jeremy, living in San Francisco with wife and daughter, but moving to Switzerland in January 2008. graphic designer by trade, I currently design the website for Netflix in the states, but am giving that up to see what I am capable of in Europe. More me here: http://nothingistrue.net/

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2007-12-01T07:24:51-08:00

Hi. Johan is the name, but I generally go by the name Echo on the intarwebs. 27-year old Swede (though some of these Stockholm bastards like to call me a Dane since I'm from southern Sweden), have a blog at http://atomicplayboy.net/ that I mostly ignore and keep quoting the Signal in my diary on a Swedish community. I'm a moderator at the Penny Arcade forums, which generally feels like sailing on a sea of shit in a leaking boat and having a hole in your bucket. But I like it anyway.

Generic Pale Nerd In Front Of Computer pic:

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2007-12-01T07:28:37-08:00

I'm Evan, and I don't believe in the "just be you" huzza that society seems to purport. I am who I effing want to be, kay? I don't really have any grasp on sanity, and you might notice that, but I attempt, at the very least, coherence. And since everyone else is posting pics, why not myself as well?

OK, that's not me, this is me:

But in the same token, maybe the first one is me? Consider me the Wade Wilson of the forums, I am a moral person, but sane, I don't care so much for that. Good to meet everyone, and please, address me as Evan, I'm nothing if I can't be personal.

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2007-12-01T07:39:38-08:00

Hi, I'm Peter. Excuse the red eye. I'm a researcher in biological sciences in Dublin, Ireland. I'll be lurking.........

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2007-12-01T08:15:16-08:00

Hello, I'm Randall

Sorry I don't currently have a picture, but as soon as I get one I will post it. In the mean time, if you are looking for the person whose Karma ran over your Dogma, then I am probably the person you are looking for.

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2007-12-01T08:34:41-08:00

Late to the party as ever. I'm John, but go by the intername Admiral Neck, or Neck. I'm currently living in what I consider to be London though Iain Sinclair might think it a bit too far from the centre. I read newspapers for a living and hate pretty much all of them, and watch a lot of US TV. Here is a picture of me being conquered by one of my cats, taken by my wife who goes by the internet monicker Canyon.

Sydney Cat also hates the UK press, but has no opinion on US TV.

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2007-12-01T08:46:29-08:00

Hi. my name's Mike, but I've been Arsnof so long I will responded to it in casual conversation.

I'm an aspiring artist/writer and want desperately to join the ranks of Those With Webcomics. I'll check up on something over 20 webcomics daily, and I've still got a ton more bookmarked to go through the archives. I spend way too much money buying their books and merchandise.

I live in Alamogordo, New Mexico -- just a stone's throw away from Stealths, old atomic bomb test ranges and the remains of the first thing with two legs in space. I'm going to the local college taking some art classes, but only so I'll have a portfolio to apply to PNCA in Portland, where I plan to live in a year or so (and am visiting next weekend).

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2007-12-01T08:49:38-08:00

I'm John Hoffman, a storyboard artist and character designer. A Canadian living in the states. That's our dog, and by "our" I mean my wife's and mine, not some sort of multiple personality disorder.

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2007-12-01T09:04:56-08:00

Hi, everyone. I'm Tim. I'm a designer and new media producer in New York. I spend most of my time helping run a new company that starts tv networks on the internet -- that's our little mascot above -- which means I sort of professionally help lots of my friends make cool things. In my spare time, I read, eat, and sleep, and spend time with the lady I married, who's much better and more interesting than me.

Here's my blog.

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2007-12-01T09:06:08-08:00

I'm Jason. I'm mostly here to bitch about the US '08 Elections, because no one in my real life cares enough about them to listen to my observations or theories.

I will also be seen talking crap about comics, movies, books, music, and anything else that hoves into view when I'm bored at 3 in the morning.

I'm currently an unemployed, amateur, unpublished writer who is right on the verge of needing to get a real job again. So, yes, I'm cranky. I'm sorry.

I have a blog that I update incredibly infrequently and that I'm frankly more than a little embarrassed about. The url is http://jasonmichelitch.blogspot.com.

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2007-12-01T09:30:29-08:00

This is me

I like er... my wife, dogs, and kids.... I like odd music.... mainly electronic industrial music (skinny puppy anyone?) I live in Michigan....

I am 30 years old... um

Most of it's here on myspace see?

Thanks And listen to the music I make here...

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2007-12-01T09:33:29-08:00

Hi, I'm John Fiala. I've been hanging around the internets for quite a long time, but I tend to read more than I say. I do a fair bit of programming, these days I'm doing it all in php for a company called pingVision, which is a fair amount of fun.

I'm afraid I don't have any pictures of myself up on the internet.

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2007-12-01T09:58:38-08:00

Matt C. aka KaosDevice here. (Anywhere you see kaosdevice on the interweb it is more then likely me)

I am an I.T. Mercenary currently working for one of the larger US telcos. I am also a sometimes writer of Lovecraftian fiction and horror. Additionally I am a blogger for RevolutionSF and do reviews for them now and again.

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2007-12-01T10:05:19-08:00

Hi, Ben, I do mainly film stuff, was working for the past 2 years in LA for a producer, now in Prague with a small start up production compan y doing mostly travel videos and the like for the web.
I'll be mainly in the Art and Noise & London Zoo areas. This is the best I can do picture wise. Just my luck that the one picture of myself is without a shirt

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2007-12-01T10:17:52-08:00

I write books about how to use software as Steve Burnett, and I perform industrial ambient improvisational soundscapes using Chapman Stick/theremin/looping as Subscape Annex. Live and work in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina, USA.

Blog at http://badger.livejournal.com/ and at HASTAC, more bio-related and other links in Livejournal profile.

Music website: http://www.subscapeannex.com/

I'm the one in black in the center, and although it looks like a clumsy photoshop job, I was actually in that picture at that conference and that pic was taken directly off the C-SPAN television feed.

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2007-12-01T10:29:33-08:00

Apparently, I'm one of the many people named Dan on this board. I live in San Diego, I am obsessed with underwear perverts, and am trying to bridge the chasm between where I am and where I should be. This is me:

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2007-12-01T10:35:50-08:00

-Steveburnett

Wicked creepy music. I love it.

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2007-12-01T11:02:33-08:00

-Starrah

You have crazy creepy Doll-like eyes... it's very cool... and unnerving.

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2007-12-01T11:05:50-08:00

Gene Quagmire, linguistics graduate student. Yeah, it's a pseudonym, but it's become fairly isomorphic to me.

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2007-12-01T11:07:45-08:00

Hello. My name is Drashko Roganovich, quarter-of-a-century old student/translator/journalist/comics connoisseur from Belgrade.

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2007-12-01T11:14:05-08:00

Hi, my name is Sebastian Burton, I'm 28 from Montreal, Quebec.
I like comics.

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2007-12-01T11:22:05-08:00

Hi, Andrew from the cold city of Ottawa. I am a professional amateur of all sorts, and do tech support to feed my addictions. Been watching Bad Signal for quite a while, and I'm always happy to partake of the evil Warren creates.

Currently : Engaged, broke, and wishing there was a laptop fairy.

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2007-12-01T11:25:35-08:00

Hey Porkshanks, is that picture taken at Gasworks Park? That totlaly looks like Gas Works Park! I love that place.

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2007-12-01T11:29:55-08:00

ian.mcrob or Doug Oliver, depends who you talk to, both various guises of my Id.
too old to be young not old enough to give a shit and act a number.
been doing this for sort o thing for far too long and used to hang around bars at UKCAC in the company of Warren and lots of other now huge names to many to mention.
yes I still bear the mental scars from too many nights of alcohol and too little sleep, the pyshical scars are just part of the ritual that comes with it.

cyberpunk - dabble, Steampunk - passing aquaintance, Dougpunk - 36 years to date and doing it as hard as I can, the only way it can be done.

If you`ve never had the pleasure or pain to date you should aquaint your ears with the following two bands:

1: Cardiacs.
2: God damn whores.

there you go shameless plug sorted.

these are me in various guises:

enjoy.

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2007-12-01T11:42:40-08:00

Currently : Engaged, broke, and wishing there was a laptop fairy.

-lofidelity

May not be the type of laptop you're drooling over, but at least there is such a thing as a laptop fairy.

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2007-12-01T11:42:49-08:00

Robert Dumas, 30 years old. Librarian in Chicago. I can find any fucking piece of information you require.

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2007-12-01T11:51:13-08:00

Glossolalia Black is my nom de plume on OddCulture and elsewhere. I also write under my real name, Leslie Powell.

Pleased to meetcha. Like the interface here!

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2007-12-01T12:02:34-08:00

Leslie!!!

I kinda figured you'd be here.

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2007-12-01T12:20:13-08:00

Doug Raymond. Author, penciller, screenwriter, director.

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2007-12-01T12:31:47-08:00

Tom McManamon - I've following Warren around the web since, what, '98? Jesus.

I'm an English teacher on Cape Cod, in MA. I play music. I just had a daughter a few months back. This is me and her below. I'd much rather post pictures of her than myself...

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2007-12-01T12:38:23-08:00

Hi I'm Taro (yup that is my real name) 31 and I make those annoying promos for programmes on TV, though one day I may write something more worthwhile and longer than 60 seconds.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-01T12:40:47-08:00

I am Adam.

This is me.

After only a handful of beers.

I'm a web developer, wannabe filmmaker and writer living in Brooklyn. I also bake pies.

(that last one is a lie)

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2007-12-01T12:48:11-08:00

Hello, I'm Frank. I write a little (under an anagram) and draw a little. In between I try to read books or read about books/literature. I first heard about Warren Ellis when I picked up the first "Scars" book along with "Stranger Kisses", but was really hooked with Planetary.

maybe I'll post some sort of picture later?

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2007-12-01T12:59:42-08:00

I'm Elohim, from Norwich, England.
I'm a professional tired person who can't concentrate anything long enough to finish it properly.
Have dozens of stories on the go, looking for someone to give me a deadline for one of them.
Also, have university essays to do... disadvantage of going for a degree I suppose...
Would post a picture, but just ain't websmart enough to do it.

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2007-12-01T13:11:42-08:00

I'm Giles. I'm in Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire. Dad, singer, reluctant performer of DIY, freelance writer every now and again.

I'd have been here sooner, had it not been for email misbehaviour that left me Bad Signal-less for a few days.

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2007-12-01T13:16:20-08:00

Hi, Gerry Duggan reporting in.

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2007-12-01T13:28:47-08:00

Hi I'm Jay.

I live up in Vancouver, Canada.
Co-owner & publisher of Optimum Wound Comics.
We have a few webcomics on the go.
And soon to be published graphic novel.

I came on here to discuss culture with some like-minded individuals and hopefully learn a thing or two.

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2007-12-01T13:45:35-08:00

Will mostly lurk and comment sporadically if we're talking something that's giving me the kicks.

Recent (and poor) college grad, who does freelance writing and video work. Nothing interesting. Yet.

Hi. I'm Danny.

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2007-12-01T13:53:39-08:00

Booo!

btw hello all ... David Zack Zachoval here... czech comics web publisher, publicist, writer and nerd :)

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2007-12-01T14:02:47-08:00

I'm Dirk Manning and I've been stinkin' up the Interweb for several years now as the writer/creator of NIGHTMARE WORLD and TALES OF MR. RHEE, both of which can be found at www.NightmareWorld.com.

More recently, I also started scribing a column for hopeful comicbook writers titled "WRITE OR WRONG" over at www.Newsarama.com. If you haven't stumbled across it yet, you can check out a complete set of links to the archives HERE.

Oh... and here's my stock photo...

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2007-12-01T14:07:23-08:00

I'm Josh Brennan: writer, slacker, gamer, geek. It seems I'm late to this party.

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2007-12-01T14:13:04-08:00

Hee. I love this thread. Beautiful people, hello!

I'm Toga, or have been since 1984. My alma mater only knows me by that name still to this day. I am also co-creator and editor of a viral distributed minizine, Don't Look. During the day, I do tech support for the county. At night, I write, spend time with family, watch way too much telly and movies, and read as much as time allows.

Normally, I am behind the camera, so I don't have many pictures of me. Here's hubby and me at Halloween:

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2007-12-01T14:32:31-08:00

Hey y'all. My name is Adam, I live in Los Angeles, and I write to pay my bills. I don't like story and I don't like character development, so I just write jokes. Plus, it's quicker and I get to not have to work as much. As a writing exercise in daily absurdity, I try and post one short piece a day at nastyedsfamousvega.blogspot.com ... If you're bored and have time to kill, start your own blog, don't bother reading mine.

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2007-12-01T14:39:58-08:00

Hello Tom Here

I have a boring job managing servers for a large telcom service corp.
I live mostly in my mind, I do break free once in awhile, with the help of some calvodos, then I rant on my blog about politics or art.

Warren and you guys open my eyes to lots of interesting things. Thank you.
Oh yeah I live in Fremont a neighborhood in Seattle that got gentrified when I wasn't looking.

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2007-12-01T14:53:34-08:00

I'm Sean. I'm "self-employed." So, I spend a lot of time at home playing with things on the internet and losing interest after a few weeks. I like to write and am working on turning that into some kind of employment.

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2007-12-01T15:00:00-08:00

Brent. 28. Pittsburgh native currently living in Phoenix. Long time Bad Signal subscriber. Cubicle slave. Aspiring comic book writer. Culture slut.

I'm also a ginger. And left-handed. And I have a thing for black cats, dobermans and rottweilers. My last roommate called me "Lil' Devil." I am not, so far as I know, involved in bringing about the Apocalypse. Thank you.

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2007-12-01T15:17:46-08:00

Miguel Alvarez. Grad film student here in Austin.

I'm the one with all the hair on the right.

Oh yeah, no penguins were hurt in the making of this photo.

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2007-12-01T16:00:47-08:00

My full name's Kelcey Wells and hail from the planet of Brooklyn.

I'm currently a part-time writer/full-time office monkey schemeing on ways to flip the situation.

I've recently finished a little book of poetry & prose that I'm rather proud of.

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2007-12-01T16:20:46-08:00

Ullo all.

Liam Shiels.

Student cum Lawyer, former Engine person.

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2007-12-01T16:37:36-08:00

I'm Sean. Live in currently snowy Minneapolis, MN. I've pretty much been a hard sci-fi comic book fan all my life.

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2007-12-01T17:11:16-08:00

Ian 'Cat' Vincent here.

I'm founder/director of a paranormal security firm (athanor.org.uk). My main interests are in modern occultism and applied mythology (no shock), also books/music/comics of quality. Spiritually a Taoist heretic with side orders of Moist alchemy and multi-model approaches to the Fortean.

I live in Bristol with the two lady-loves of my life - a Scottish artist (kirstyhall.co.uk) and an expat American former neurochemist now studying Preuvian ayahuasca shamanism (website to follow!).

Here to feel the presence of Internet Jesus and pick the brains of all and sundry.

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2007-12-01T17:26:27-08:00

My name is David. Quite a few people think Ludd is my real surname. I don't know why. I just quite like luddism.

I live in New Zealand.

One year from the end of an arts and law conjoint degree. Currently working full-time over the summer in a law firm. I don't like people very much.

Might have to find someone to pay me to do post-grad, to avoid the Real World for a bit longer.

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2007-12-01T19:07:28-08:00

"Hey Porkshanks, is that picture taken at Gasworks Park? That totlaly looks like Gas Works Park! I love that place."

yes, yes it was! I live about 12 minutes walking distance from Gasworks Park, and enjoy going there to relax as often as I can.

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2007-12-01T19:45:51-08:00

Hi, I am Don. I have no photos on the intarwub of my reflection, so you may not see any, and I humbly apologize for that. I fancy myself an artist on a good day. I self-published a book I will talk about in the printheads forum. I read comics. "Temporarily insane, waiting for a full-time position." I put that onto a shirt with fabric marker. You can use it, just make sure you give me credit when you say it. I'd appreciate it and do the same for you. I am normally too shy for these sorts of things, but I will try not to lurk too much and actively participate in other discussions.

"You see that guy over there?"
"Oh, that's just Don, he's ... lurking."

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2007-12-01T19:53:51-08:00

Hey all, I'm Hugh Caley, originally from Metamora, Michigan, USA, now living in Albany, California (across the bay from SF).

I'm a UNIX admin professionally, and a musician. I released an album of instrumental music this year. I'm hoping to get into doing some soundtrack work in the near future.

Plasmabat

Plasmabat on Myspace

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2007-12-01T20:06:09-08:00

yes, yes it was! I live about 12 minutes walking distance from Gasworks Park, and enjoy going there to relax as often as I can.

I live like 4 blocks away.

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2007-12-01T20:21:02-08:00

I'm Wendalyn.

I'm a narsty New Yorker, Brooklyn bred, Bronx dwelling. I hope to someday shank someone. Sometimes I make things. Sometimes I make myself and others gruesomely undead.

I'm the one who didn't wear her seatbelt.

I post art, photos and shit talking here: LJ- Januarychill

Oh- Hi Kelcey!

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2007-12-01T20:54:02-08:00

Hello!

Aayush Iyer, 22 from Mumbai, India. I've been the editor for a videogaming/interactive entertainment print magazine here. Now, I waste time taking bad pictures and doctoring them to look good. Otherwise, I'm a massive video/link/random knowledge whore, and everything goes on The Voice of A

(No, I don't come out of commodes)

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2007-12-01T21:01:50-08:00

This is me (one in the grey shirt and glasses) reading one of my stories on the radio. I'm a writer and student.

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2007-12-01T22:05:53-08:00

This is me, Andrew Devenney, either preparing to throttle someone to death or watching my three year old picky son eat pizza at a bowling alley on Halloween. U Decide!

Early 30s, modern European historian by training (that's Dr. Devenney, bitches!), living and working in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, which is neither mountainous nor pleasant. I have been stalking Warren Ellis' internet habitats since first picking up a copy of Doom 2099 like what...12-13 years ago (Jesus...I feel old all of sudden). Avid comic reader since I was a wee one; my only brushes with comics publishing were getting a couple of letters published in the Transmet letter columns before Vertigo tanked them and providing some advice on historical details for an issue of Mark Millar's Wolverine run a couple of years ago.

I will mostly lurk and occasionally butt in when the need strikes me.

Oh yes, and I might as well add: currently listening to Ulrich Schnauss Goodbye and trying to finish reading Cryptonomicon for the first time.

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2007-12-01T22:15:39-08:00

Elizabeth. Genco. Everyone's. Doing. This. Period. Thing. And. So. Shall. I.

Writer. Fiddler. Tarotist. Brooklyn. Flamingly. Pagan. Very. Married.

That's an old-ish picture but dang, I'm just way too tired to do anything about it right now. Besides, that's still my favorite lipstick shade.

http://www.elizabethgenco.com

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2007-12-01T22:31:01-08:00

Greetings,
Michael Joyal here. I work administration at the Manitoba Theatre Company in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. I do not live in an igloo.

I do, like most here, love movies and books and pop culture. I create art n things and want to put them on books and other print materials. My art can be seen here. If you want to help in that goal, I would make you muffins.

My happiest art memory was when Warren sent me an email saying one of my pieces was "nice work".

I look like this. Well, mostly.

Yes, that is my painting in the background of Pope John Paul II with men in biohazard suits.

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2007-12-01T22:43:38-08:00

Mathias or Midus,
Writer/Journalist, Comic Pusher, and a general jack of all trades that sound remotely intruiging.

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2007-12-01T22:44:20-08:00

Me llamo Stefan. I make a living testing video server systems. I wrote lots of Role Playing Game material long ago; lately I've written a few things for places like MAKE and Worldchanging. And just recently, some more RPG stuff. Yeah, I'm a frigging geek:

I started reading comics relatively late in life. They're easily half of what I read now. I wish Perl and XML manuals came in comic form.

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2007-12-01T23:01:27-08:00

I wish Perl and XML manuals came in comic form.

Ha! I'd need one for css, too.

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2007-12-01T23:05:09-08:00

My name's Ben Peek. I currently own a broken camera, but I like it.

I'm an author, that sort of thing.

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2007-12-01T23:35:25-08:00

I'm Thor. I make and DJ electronic music and am a student of computer science and music at the University of Victoria. I live at http://djfractal.net

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2007-12-02T00:02:56-08:00

I am based in Tokyo. I write stuff, and produce some other stuff (you can find out more about what I do on my blog). Even though these days I find it hard to spend a lot of time on message boards, I have participated in -- as far as I know -- pretty much every online playground that Warren has created.

- Jean

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2007-12-02T00:29:40-08:00

Nic Sando, a comedian, cartoonist and performance artist from Wellington New Zealand, otherwise known as the pimple on the arse cheek of the world.

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2007-12-02T00:39:07-08:00

"I live like 4 blocks away."

Jared, you live directly between myself and the park. You must have a great view of downtown!

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2007-12-02T02:57:27-08:00

Hi, I'm Kristina. I have a funny last name. I live in Sweden in a small shack in the woods outside of Stockholm. I draw things (that you can find here), and I'm studying to become a teacher.

This is me:

I'm technologically inept, so just getting this image to work has me feeling like carbonated soda inside.

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2007-12-02T04:01:20-08:00

Jared, you live directly between myself and the park. You must have a great view of downtown!

The building next door blocks it, but if you stand on the sidewalk? Amazing!!

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2007-12-02T04:53:23-08:00

Hi, I'm Tom. I make music and art and stories. Most of which I probably won't bore you with, apart from the odd drawing or song. Maybe. Been doing some acousticy stuff at home: arklight.project and I also have a band called A Quiet Life

So... yeah, hi. Nice to meet you all. Really looking forward to Freakangels, and the Dok is awesome.

Cheers.

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2007-12-02T06:05:00-08:00

Joe here. Howdy.

Paoli isn't my name, but rather a town near where I grew up and now live. My actual name is in the credits of two historic Oscar-winning films. I am an American who has lived abroad twice, both times in countries where they speak English. I have a Master's Degree in Computer Science. I have been a rocket scientist in training, I was Commodore Computer's last new employee, and I was once the drummer in a band that opened for Jimmy Hendrix’s bassist. I have made a feature-length film starring BBC and New Zealand television actors that sadly - and possibly rightfully - has never been accepted into a film festival. I am younger than Warren, but older than the lead actor in USA’s Burn Notice. I am currently a handyman, painter, and occasional videographer.

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2007-12-02T06:21:45-08:00

@eldomingo: You are from "elsewhere" now? Where's your pride, man?

@LarryYoung: Congrats, pal! It's a nice club we are part of, huh?

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2007-12-02T06:40:37-08:00

Hi, I'm David Guy. Here is a picture of me eating an ice cream, smiling

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2007-12-02T07:48:30-08:00

David Swanson here.

Currently studying Philosophy and Computing Science at the University of Stirling. This breaks my brain in interesting ways.

Unbelievably, this is the best photo I have of me:

Do not question the tiara, for the tiara knows all.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-02T08:44:53-08:00

My name is James Osborne, and I live in Norman, Oklahoma. I work in a mall. I like to write things, every once in a while. I like to read.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-02T09:22:39-08:00

JP Reader.

Special Book Acquisitions at the Brown University Bookstore, kickball umpire, and radio dj, in Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, New England.

I was on the WEF at 8 AM, on the eleventh of September in 2001.

Between Fraction's lists and the Forum, it was a quite a time.

After the WEF shut off, I've mostly just been lurking

Nice to be around.

Thanks, Mr. Ellis.

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2007-12-02T10:52:31-08:00

I'm Michael, from one of the less, or more savory parts of Long Island New York, depending on who you ask. I have a job, but I'm vaguely embarrassed by it, and it doesn't really have anything to do with anything, so I'll leave the what of it out. Now I imagine I'll lurk for a few months.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-02T11:17:45-08:00

Name's Chris M. Ferguson. You can peek on me at chrismferguson.wordpress.com.

And I'm currently pregnant with Warren Ellis child. (Lord, help me.)

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-02T11:18:59-08:00

I'm Adlai, currently bumming about as a student in the arse-hole of nowhere in Northern Ireland, contrary to popular belief it is actually the most boring place on the planet earth. although i have just found a shop in Belfast that sells Knagaroo burgers.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-02T11:24:47-08:00

I'm Joey Stone, graphic design student/comic book shop employee/. I'm also in a grunge band. I come from Colchester in Essex and spend far too much time on the internet. I look a bit like this:

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2007-12-02T11:29:31-08:00

I'm Jim. Born in Brooklyn, currently living in Jamaica Plain, MA. Grad student, occasional baby-eater. Too tired and technologically-tarded to find a pic right now.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-02T11:33:13-08:00

Owl and Fox
i still enjoy coffee with my mom; currently a film student in north texas, my two dogs, adrian and sherlock, own my life.
i enjoy media and technology in all forms.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-02T11:45:59-08:00

Nice suit, Jean...

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-02T11:52:20-08:00

I'm Mike, I use the Pseudo Narshada pretty much everywhere. IT bod, but also webcomic artist (although currently on hiatus due to a large dose of social life,) occasional 3D artist, general pencil & ink doodler and procrastinating writer (2 novels & 3 short stories in the works, as well as a comic,) who failed to win NaNonWriMo this year. I love taking photos, so perhaps at some point I should buy a camera.
Here's me trying desperately not to fall off the planet:

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-02T12:23:03-08:00

I'm Rob Monroe: substitute teacher, copywriter and novelist from South Bend, IN. My interests include transgressive fiction, conspiracy theories, and bronze age comics.

I occasionally blog at robertmonroe.org and (when pertaining to comics) at continuityerror.com

Here is a blurry, obscured photo of myself.

I live with my wife, Jessica, and a hedgehog named Violet. Here's a picture of Violet.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-02T12:25:57-08:00

Real name Terry Martin, publishing editor of
Murky Depths the hybrid comic/straight prose magazine that ImagineFX described as "a new book-cum-magazine with echoes of the great 1950s US horror and sci-fi comics." And no, I didn't pay them to say that.

Lucifal is a private detective in one of my own stories. I kinda like her.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-02T12:38:54-08:00

My name is Shelley. I live in Illinois, although I am a bonafide "Okey From Muskogee" (for eighteen months anyway). I am a teacher and poet, writing and performing my poetry all over the place. My boyfriend made me a comic book junkie. It is all his fault!!!

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-02T13:58:37-08:00

Hi. Chris Wichtendahl. Writer. Web Developer. Graphic Designer. I seem to sign up for these things whenever Warren starts them, throw my hat into a few discussions then forget it's there. Ideally, that won't happen this time. Oh, and my writing is available here if anyone is interested. Thanks.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-02T14:26:41-08:00

Hi, my name is Paul. My friends directed me toward good Mr. Ellis via Transmetropolitan and I'm glad they did. I am a PhD candidate in Geology at KU. I've started writting fiction (besides my thesis) and figured exposure to the kind of people I will meet if I am ever successful was a good thing! We'll see how long that sentiment lasts...

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-02T14:39:58-08:00

'lo there,

Allow me to introduce myself, Lee Isserow; London-dwelling writer, filmmaker, perpetual whore and occasional musician / layabout.

I drink lots of coffee and whisky (seperately... whiskuccinos are not for me), smoke 50-75g of Golden Virginia a week and used to work in porn.

I've spent the last 2 months inside, hiding from the smoking ban, making the 170+ FX shots on my latest movie happen.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-02T16:20:57-08:00

(6.460)
Hi I'm Jay.

Jay @ Emcon
I live up in Vancouver, Canada.

A Canadian resident - and quite possibly everyone - has no business drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon. For shame, sir! Shame, I say!

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-02T16:41:26-08:00

I am #516, also known as John Ginsberg-Stevens. I am part-time university lecturer, bookstore minion, and anarcho-anthropologist. Think of me as a mildly published writer who can't finish his dissertation but can write extensive deconstructions of cultural imperialist fields of production and saga-poetry for novels still in my head. I love comics (Black Summer in particular right now), SF (in the broad speculative sense), gaming, talking politics, and creating Irish/Scottish & Tex-Mex fusion cuisine (ask me about my recipe for Scotch Burritos!!). I own large dogs who turn doors into inscrutable templates for ogham cryptography. I have a beautiful house (temporarily) and a beautiful wife (pemanently). I sort of look like this:

I look forward to doing lots of typing here.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-02T16:46:06-08:00

John W. Smith. Eastern Maryland by way of Texas, Mississippi, Illinois, West Virginia and New York City. 25 and aging. Radio personality by morning, graphic designer throughout the rest of it. Occasional freelance writer. Giant brain.

I've lurked in Warren's parts since the days of the WEF-- actually looking to converse on this one.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-02T16:48:02-08:00

Another Paul here. Found the Good Man Ellis via Transmet, and have been reading his stuff ever since. Currently transplanted from Florida to northern Michigan (no great loss), and I work in IT. Here's a somewhat recent picture of me:

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-02T16:49:51-08:00

Greetings! Just signed up to the site.
My name is Mike but on the internets I'm mostly known as Wooleybooley these days.

I am an artist a musician, a comic shop manager and all-around slacker/geek. Looking forward to meeting some like-minded individuals around here. :) ... pass the salt!

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-02T17:06:08-08:00

Larry "mckenzee" Holderfield, freely googleable.
Writer, photographer, fiber optic repairman, webcartoonist, cook, quilter, mime...

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-02T17:16:33-08:00

joe soares. list of terms: phoenix arizona. loudfast crazy rocknroll shows. hardcore punk rock. reading comics. imagining comics. writing about comics. a little bit of design (records, fliers blah blah.) . finding money , time and people to combine and make new comics like some awesome nerd transformer. booze, breakfast burritos at 2 am. new york giants. currently, a nintendo ds. uhhhhh, i'm running out of the fun stuff. i work a job stopping your insurance company from screwing you as hard a they REALLY want to, and yet everyone still gets screwed. ...vitamin water? i'm done.

i'm the bald guy in the middle.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-02T17:51:33-08:00

Hello.

I'm Matt. Currently in Knoxville, TN, US studying theatre as a graduate acting student.

This is me at work during a workshop for kids who directed the Gravedigger scene from Hamlet better than a few adults I've seen.

Looking forward to hopping onto some discussions after my school ends for Christmas.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-02T18:45:24-08:00

Hello:

My name is Michael, and I am currently residing in the East part of the San Francisco Bay making a living as a corporate whore/wage slave. I read today's Sunday Hangover on SG, and it resonated with my current view of the world (or lack thereof), so I decided to throw myself into the discussion. Either I will find a place at the center of which may be an undefinable truth resembling the notion of good, or I can commiserate on my disappointment with humanity. Either way, glad to meet ya'll.

Here is the last pic that I like of myself. Hot women holding guns on me (seems like a fetish, but this is a single occurrence, I swear).

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-02T18:46:08-08:00

Greetings,
i go by Altair when i can get people to forget my first name
i am a student, a wanderer, a writer, a discordian, and, if nothing else, frequently confused. I also have a beard, which must put me in the same category as 80% of the other males on the site. It lets us look edgy.

this picture makes me need a cigarette.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-02T19:00:22-08:00

Márcio Massula Jr., brazilian, wannabe-weekend-writer, Mr. Ellis digital stalker.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-02T19:16:13-08:00

Paul Sizer. Comic artist, graphic designer. Self publisher of LITTLE WHITE MOUSE, MOPED ARMY and the nearly complete B.P.M.(in glorious full color!) about a girl DJ in New york City.
Engine alums may remember me for the nano-second of brilliance (?) that was...STEAM DRIVEN ROBOT LINCOLN Some may hate me for it. Fair enough.
Find out about more of the stuff I do at my WEBSITE

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-02T20:58:15-08:00

Hello.

My name is John von Gunten.

I'm in college, I do some writing, I deal with computers, I have a radio show.

I read too much.

I look a lot like this most of the time.

I'll be around.

Check out:

Thanks.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T00:35:14-08:00

I am Barkos. I am so addicted to Ellis that I get text messages from him daily via Twitter. I read many of his comics every month. A part of me may die unless I fulfill my Ellis Quotient each day. And now...you see?...I am here in this forum. Will this never end?!

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T04:08:44-08:00

Hello, my name is Shareef. Uh... I'm an aspiring human with a penchant for writing, drinking and dossing. Graduate of the useless art and master of rant.

This photo will come back to haunt me, I know it...

Wait... I'm not even sure if I can get this thing to work. Perhaps it is for the best.

...Feelin' fine.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T05:59:22-08:00

Hello! My name is Aine.
I'm northern irish.

And i'm a mad scientist.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T06:42:28-08:00

Nice to see you, Aine.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T06:56:58-08:00

coffee drinker, misreable git, beard grower, and whitechapel inhabitant (no i really do live there).
(would have put a picture up, but i am also stupid when it comes to computers.)

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T07:38:45-08:00

I'm Nico, 25 year old girl who lives in Brooklyn.

I work for a fairly well-known internet Archive, at one of their nationwide centers that handles digitizing out of copyright books and private book collections to make available and free online. I do data management and glorified data entry. It is fairly repetitive so I jump back between my work and reading things online.

I don't do a ton creatively at the moment, which is quite a sad thing, but I do enjoy playing too much World of Warcraft.

I figured that I should use my typical nickname instead of an online handle because, if it is good enough for Neil Gaiman to remember, then it is good enough for you. It stands out more, anyways.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T07:42:28-08:00

Mattias Elftorp. Live in Malmö, Sweden, working as a professional illustrator/graphic designer, sometimes student.
I make the Piracy is Liberationseries (at the time of writing this, I recently released the third book in the series).
Also one of the editors of the international comics anthology, C'est Bon Anthology, published by C'est Bon Kultur.

I look something like this:

(photo by Christer Järeslätt, manipulation by me)

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T07:56:09-08:00

Paul Aston, some kind of artist, and I run Voodoo Kinky which is the Unnofficial Official Marvel UK Art Program.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T07:58:11-08:00

Geek insurrectionist. Sometimes I teach young adults things. More often, they teach me things.

If I hold to form, this will be my only post here. But you never know...

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T08:28:14-08:00

Yeah, I am Nicholas Ahlhelm, writer-guy, would be comic creator (soon-to-be actual comic creator), and other wise oddball guy from the Midwest US.

Twenty-nine, male, married (though I don't mind looking now or then), father of one, yadda yadda.

I run Metahuman Press, a super-powered prose fiction site. All free stuff by a variety of writers so check it out.

And I am more of a Kirkman acolyte then a Ellis one, but damn if Ellis doesn't produce a fine ass website.

Uh, yeah, that's about it.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T08:36:50-08:00

I'm Ken Mickles. I write a lot of software and make TV shows for the Internet. I've been lurking on Warren Ellis bulletin boards since 1999.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T09:41:01-08:00

Ben Vandgrift, software engineer and sometimes author, rpg contributor, artist, and musician. Weekend outdoorsman. I enjoy futurism and speculation in whatever form or forum; that's why I'm here.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T10:01:23-08:00

Justin Riley, bookstore slave, writer, recommender of good books. I'm from Milwaukee, WI and suppose I fit the stereotype quite nicely upon first glance. There will be no pictures of me as I'm trying to keep the last part of my imaginary soul.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T10:30:36-08:00

Well I'm a art school collage drop out that is aspiring to be a writer (preferably investigative journalist) however i live 45 minutes from everything in bum f@#k Minnesota so I'm stuck for the moment. I tend to use vulgarity's a lot to I'm apologizing in advance to the moderator in advance if he/she has to edit any of my posts.

As for the picture its the only one i could find of my self on my computer. (at my friends wedding 2 years back. I might add i don't remember much of it after the ceremony )

I'm 22 soon to be 23 in a little over four months. A little on the angry side most of the time. And i work at Taco Hell. Have been for five years now and still make less than nine dollars an hour. I'm horribly addicted to coffee and cigarettes (but i don't care I like both of which and won't quit till I'm dead) and drink large quantity's of alcohol on the week ends. I read most of the time not spent at work or on the internet (researching since i can't talk to real people out on the street because there isn't any one on the street). I can be a huge ass hole ,or so says my girl friend, but I don't care what people think about me and hold no bars when talking to them ,unless I'm at work and your a customers. I think this county is doomed, its people are f@#k'n sheep that are being lead to to slaughter by its government and the media isn't doing much to prevent it. nor is the system of checks and balances really working any more. well I'll save my rants for an other time. I love movies, music, books, comics, and art in general.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T10:56:58-08:00

Hi, Ed Flores here.

I'm a comic book owner/manager in Mexico City...

I'm the BIG ONE with no hair and white shirt! ;)

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T11:57:22-08:00

Nice to meet everyone. I'm Matt, finishing up my undergrad at the University of Florida before I go off for an MFA in Creative Writing. Wrote a novel, editing it, and admin at Quill-Thrill, a creative writing workshop website.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T13:14:47-08:00

Hi, I'm Chris.
I'm a manager for Forbidden Planet, the UK's largest comic's chain, about to celebrate it's 30th year. I've been with them, on and off, for roughly half of that. I'm currently based in Bristol, home of the biggest UK comic con.

I'm also a sometime-freelance journo & DJ, wrote for Comics International and a host of computer mags, and and have just finished a sizeable chunk of an upcoming collection of graphic novel reviews, coming out from Harper Collins next year.
The DJ-ing is currently on hold whilst I wait for what I play to become fashionable again (big beat & indie - and don't tell me that the current crop of guitar-based bands currently clogging the charts are in any way indie). I was resident at a couple of biggish London nights in the second half of the nineties, and was a resident at Ramshackle, a mainstream indie night here in Brizzle up until a year ago.

Anyway, I'm blabbering on a bit, something I'm fairly prone to, as anyone who knows me from The Engine or Panel & Pixel will know, so will wrap it up with a dreadful picture.

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2007-12-03T13:21:57-08:00

Hi

I'm Paul - from Brighton (the UK one, not the US one). After years at art school I ended up managing the web department for a publishing company...

I'm slightly blurred, but it's better that way. Oh, and the lazarus corporation is my corner of the internet.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T14:09:57-08:00

Hi,
Jerry from the LoDo district in Denver. I am self employed selling credit card transactions, which is about as exciting as at sounds, but beats the scorched earth of Telecom where I spent 10 years. Was an early WEF poster, but mostly just lurked since then.

I enjoy live music of all kinds, read mostly non-cape pamphlets and graphic novels, traveling, mostly to scuba dive, beer (pick up New Belgium's winter seasonal 2 Below Ale... mmm malty), skiing, sushi, Duke Basketball, going to Colorado Rockies games, and just hanging out with friends.

Having a reliable music thread to read again is the thing that I am most excited about this place. There are litterally hundreds of bands that I discovered due to the old WEF, and I have already picked up a couple new cds from the music thread.

Will try to contribute rather than just lurk this time.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T14:17:08-08:00

My name's Scott, and I should be writing my dissertation right now but I'm not. I've every bit as tedious as you suspect. Please don't hold it against me.

However, I possess an uncanny ability to implicate myself in other people's sex lives. That's worth something, right?

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T14:17:15-08:00

Hola

My name is Houman, jack of many trades, master of none. I'm a Londoner by birth, of Iranian and Welsh heritage, living in Sweden. Oh yes.

I use the name 'nietoperz' on many sites so I figured I would stick with it. Nice to meet everyone.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T14:46:23-08:00

Scott Dunbier. Used to work for a big comics company.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T14:56:03-08:00

Who let that man in? Have him followed at all times.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T15:39:07-08:00

Named Bradley Edward Curry, but I traded middle names with my brother when I was 12, so I am Bradley Susumu Curry, the government has yet to realize this. I buy more comics than is reasonable.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T16:09:19-08:00

My name is Liam Stone. I already think I may be in way over my head.
I just finished re reading Astronauts in Trouble and I'm about to read this weeks 2000ad.

Wish me luck

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T16:17:12-08:00

Hey
I'm Andy Spieldenner -- getting a PhD in Communication & Culture (where I spend half my time doing Health Communication and the other half talking about comics). I also spend too much money on comics, money that could be better used to support my partner and dogs. Well, maybe.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T17:02:38-08:00

My name is Alex. I live in Sydney Australia,

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T17:23:02-08:00

I live in Cork, Ireland, which is just like Heroes depicts, just so you know.

I'm currently trying my hand at writing, dabble in graphic design and I have a penchant for pop culture gone bad. I'm a fan of Aristotlean logic and iconic branding, and mellow music as done by angry bands. I live in debt because of comics and spend too much time on the internet.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T21:53:49-08:00

I'm John. Add alcohol for happy belligerence. I prefer the corner and typical glaring for a default social reaction in a typical setting. Unfortunately that usually doesn't work for very long since I'm too old to be the kid in the corner that everyone wants to stick on mood disorder pills. Personally I attribute any crying, balling, or attacking of people over the age of 90 to overuse of sugar and caffeine. I do other things that might have some truth to them and would probably make for better conversation but I'm going to fail to mention them in a true defeatist fashion. And here is a picture of myself that I never look like but will always treasure:

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-03T22:32:57-08:00

I'm Bill. During the day, I tell people what to do and talk about e-commerce. The rest of the time I carry around a camera or play drums for Your Favorite Assassin.

This isn't my most flattering photo, but it is the most recent.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-04T00:22:57-08:00

Hi, my parents named me Shawn Joseph Douglas. I will forever be searching for a last name in a sea of first names.

I fancy myself a writer when procrastination is not preventing that from being so.

Sometimes I look like this:

Most of the time like this:

I promised myself I would not follow Warren here until the webcomic was up and running.

I lasted six days.

Yes, I am Warren Ellis' bitch.

But then, aren't we all?

-SJD

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2007-12-04T02:13:27-08:00

Hello everyone. I'm Alan. The folks at the Savannah College of Art and Design are teaching me how to make comics that might look good and people might be tempted to buy. I am a moderately happy, compassionate, and well-adjusted person, which begs the question "what the FUCK am I doing here" and "how long until they tear me apart with their claws and fight with each other over the choice bits?"

I wish I was this beardy currently. Damn job.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-04T03:51:30-08:00

Hi. My name's Chris. I'm 24, and I live in Bristol, England, where I do data checking for an insurance company (even more boring than it sounds). I really want to write for a living, and I just finished NaNoWriMo, which told me two things:

a) If I want to do this for real, I may as well say goodbye to that last little scrap of sanity I have right now.
b) It'll be worth it.

I like video games, comics, and all the usual geeky pursuits. I'm a complete and utter misanthropic bastard, though I can play nice on occasion. I usually run out of stuff to say for this kind of thing about... now.

As for pictures, I never seem to have any normal ones lying around for this kind of thing, so fuck it, here I am as a zombie:

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2007-12-04T04:33:06-08:00

The Official Sean Welker Quick Reference Guide:

Born in 1973.
Russian/Italian/Irish ethnicity.
White trash upbringing.
5'10". Current weight fluctuation: 170-175 lbs.
Collects music, rock band tee-shirts, comic books and fonts.
Too many tattoos to keep count. I’m not a fan of explaining them, though.
Regular visits to the gym and a good therapist keep me sane.
I have a boyfriend, thanks.
I'm a professional artfag. I used to paint, but these days I almost exclusively use computers.
I tend bar part-time to give my godless bohemian life structure.
My favorite food is bacon. Runner-up goes to ice cream. Honorable mention to smoked salmon.
I’m a huge fag. HUGE. I’d rather be called a fag than gay anyday.
I call Washington, DC home.
My weapon of choice is cheap cold beer punctuated with shots of good brown liquor.
I use the word ‘fuck’ with the frequency that other people use the word ‘the’.
I am blessed with some of the most amazing friends a man could have.
Textbook Gemini.
Favorite colors: panic orange, olive green, gunmetal gray, slate blue.
I’m a bastard. No, really.
I am not an optimist by nature, but I am trying to change that.

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2007-12-04T07:28:14-08:00

I'm Stephen Gracia. I make money as a college administrator/sometime adjunct professor in my hometown of Brooklyn, New York.

I'm also a playwright, literary manager for a theater company, and sometime creator of mad electro.

Here's what I looked like when I had a couple of my pounds on me.

That's a big face you have there sir.

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2007-12-04T09:18:11-08:00

My name is Casey Moore. I work in film production (the production office). I also write and am trying to make it into the creative side of this business. I live in the grim meathook future city of New Orleans. Things are still shit here, but for some reason I still love this city.

At some point I will figure out how to add my foto here.

Until then here is a link to a pic of me with my son and Gordon from Sesame Street.

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2007-12-04T09:47:21-08:00

Hi, I'm Shane ... I'm an aspiring writer, also known as a waiter who wants to do something more creative. Haven't written jack shit lately, but I have drank quite a bit of alcohol lately so that should count for something. I have no artistic skills to speak of, two stick figures humping one another is the best you'll get out of me. I think I'll just remain mysterious and aloof for now in regards to photos, when I'm not feeling so lazy I'll post one.

I'm also a half-assed college student who posts in online comic communities when he should be finishing a paper that's due today that he's been procrastinating on for the last week. That said, I really should get back to that fucking headache of a paper.

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2007-12-04T09:55:07-08:00

Hello, I'm Alex Williams!

English but living and working in Sapporo, Japan right now. My current hobbies include walking straight through things, and getting cold.

I haven't read many of Mr. Ellis's comic books, but he seems like a forward-thinkin' fella, and Doktor Sleepless is great! I'll be honest though, FREAKANGELS is a pretty lousy name for anything other than a parody metal band.

Oooh, blurry. That looks much better when smaller, on facebook. Oh well!

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2007-12-04T11:05:14-08:00

hello, my name is David Seligman.

I'm a screenwriter and filmmaker. I have a few credits on IMDb, and my screenwriting has been nominated for a few awards. one goal is to get beyond the nominations... I'm currently writing my next project. I'm also an IMAX projectionist, an avid movie watcher and comic reader. (that's me below)

I look forward to being a bit more involved in this online community -- more than I was in the engine -- and to meeting and talking with a bunch of you.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-04T14:02:25-08:00

I'm jude. Writer and game designer based in san francisco. general purpose geek. comics, movies, technology, the whole kettle.

also, i'm bringing back the vest. UNironically. take that hipsters.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-04T14:59:28-08:00

my name is j.smith but, since my actual name appears to be a pseudonym, i go by Lazlo Panaflex when using the computer. at one point wanted to change my name to sweet white teeth.

in the above photo i am wearing a shirt i designed for my friend's band.
since this photo was taken i have grown a beard and started my own business (not necessarily in that order).
i install and maintain the eyes of big brother for a living but dream of writing the great canadian comic, developing the videogame based on said comic, and directing the subsequent film adaptation.

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2007-12-04T16:01:38-08:00

David Ritchie
Secret Headquarters
Los Angeles

Co-own this:

and look like this:

www.TheSecretHeadquarters.com

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2007-12-04T16:23:22-08:00

Michael White, I'm a writer/artist type and a blue collar member of America's working poor. AKA A.Hoosier on MySpace.

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2007-12-04T16:32:34-08:00

my name is erin. i currently reside in the portland, oregon area, where i am fervently studying to become a mad scientist. i enjoy many creative endeavors, but only pursue them when i really should be doing something else. i look like this sometimes when i should be finishing a looming project:

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2007-12-04T17:52:28-08:00

Hello!

my name's Nick and I live in Brighton. Into the usual geek stuff. I'm interested in, and hopeful for, the world around me, while at the same time shot through with a jet black vein of icy cynicism. I'm a frustrated creative, mostly because I'm too damn lazy to actually finish anything. I'm currently failing to quit smoking. This is the first board on which I'll try to be more than a lurker.

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2007-12-04T18:50:34-08:00

Hey.

I'm Ren from Portugal, studying Web Design in the charmless sewers of Hull, UK. Art and knowledge is my propulsion, and I live to create. I'm looking forward to participating in enlightening discussions and live through this gray town that has already killed a few too many muses of mine. I also revere quirky comics that know when to draw a closure.

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2007-12-04T19:12:06-08:00

Hey, I'm Buck. Besides just getting married to this wonderful woman, I am a PhD candidate in Early American Literature at Southern Illinois University. I also write Sleepbringer with the wonderful maniac, Ben Ferarri (shameless plug).

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2007-12-04T20:08:12-08:00

I am Mike in Toledo.Picture to follow as soon as i am technologically able. AS i approach my golden years, i revitalize by reading stuff like doktor sleepless and the black dossier. Listening to Zappa also provides the daily required sustainance. I hope any input i may provide will do the same

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2007-12-05T07:46:51-08:00

My name is Adam Duckworth, from Bloomington, IN.

My most common alias is Freeze Etch, a moniker which I regularly compose music (of the industrial/electronic/ambient/experimental variety) as well as DJ under. I have an album coming out soon on Force Of Nature Productions, and I DJ both in the club as well as on the radio (in the past at WIUX / in the near future at WFHB).

I graduated from Indiana University (Bloomington) in August 2007 with a BA in Communication & Culture (media/film/culture studies). I'm presently doing a lot of relatively uninteresting/unpaid/volunteer/intern/grunt work in order to build up my resume and such so that presumably I can escape the realm of quasi-professional limbo sometime in the foreseeable future. Among these things: I am a published music critic, an assistant publicist for a music publicity company, and some other stuff I'm probably forgetting.

I'm into all sorts of media (music/film/games/etc.), and am a certified music junkie. I am frequently in the company of Libby (who is responsible for the above photo) -- not to mention Rob, Willow, Matt and Chris. I have a black polydactyl cat named Euronymous.

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2007-12-05T08:44:43-08:00

Gary Esposito

Graphic Designer/Production Artist/Cartoonist/Fine Artist

Comic Collector for almost 36 friggin' years.

Just shoot me.

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2007-12-05T08:49:10-08:00

Mike Lang. I do very little.

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2007-12-05T09:23:09-08:00

i'm gav aka grnr. i'm 24, based in glasgow, scotland and i'm a semi-professional musician, producer, sound engineer, remixer and anything else music-related i can get people to pay me for. they don't pay me often enough though.

here's me when i was less haggard than now:

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2007-12-05T09:36:24-08:00

sarah becan, chicago, graphic designer/illustratrix/comics artist and publisher/accordionist. every time i think i'm utterly done with social networking and messageboards someone comes along and drags me right back in. you kids and your internets.

here's a picture i drew of myself so i wouldn't have to show the internet actual photos:

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2007-12-05T09:37:23-08:00

Hi, I'm JoeViturbo. I study fossil pollen.
Look! There's one now!

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2007-12-05T09:41:46-08:00

Hi im Richard , going by CryptSphinx since i dropped my last username (many reasons)
I will upload a picture - soon.

Irish living in Dublin, doing a web design course, recording music, writing and designing webpages as well as other things
Linux user, discordian , gamer,book collector, cigar smoker, musician - that about covers it.

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2007-12-05T11:40:13-08:00

Yann Best. Welsh. Taking an MA in Classical Civilisation (and Ancient History, but I try and forget that part) with a bias towards representations of gender in the ancient novel. I am not a geek.

Here is a photo of me being a poser:

I have not cut my hair for a long time. Next weekend it goes away. I fear the same cannot be said for the mess evident behind me.

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2007-12-05T12:57:21-08:00

Last of the gene jockeys. Professional Molecular Biologist living in the navel of the midwest. Avid reader, sometimes writer yearns to turn it the other way around.

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2007-12-05T13:03:20-08:00

Steve Niles. I'd like to be a writer when I grow up.

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2007-12-05T13:07:34-08:00

My name's Andrew. I'm 23 and in my final year of school for linguistics. I live in Amherst, Massachusetts and hate this valley full of pioneers.

I also play noise music in a couple bands that people have never heard of because we only put out tapes and most people don't even have tape players anymore.

This is my in my pink room, and yes those are faeries on the wall. I'm guessing the person who had my room before me was either a young girl or a very strange old man.

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2007-12-05T13:29:23-08:00

Steve Niles. Now it's a party.

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2007-12-05T16:00:49-08:00

Spiraltwist

I'm here occasionally … as Tess-zilla permits
NOW go slap your lazy husband to get off his dead arse and come make chatty goodness

A mending Badman

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2007-12-05T17:58:42-08:00

Steve, is that photo from the Geppi Museum...?

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2007-12-05T18:40:29-08:00

Hello. My name is Dan Cheek. I operate in the Scranton, Pennslvania area of the United States. I run the website SockPuppetsFromHell.com and am currently in my Junior Year at Wilkes University, where I am working like a pack mule at earning my Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing. I also scream when I poop, and I don't know why.

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2007-12-05T18:47:12-08:00

I'm Monty, and this is my ugly mug.

I'm a new member of the draftable populace, and future Doctor of Phrenology. I have many ambitions and all the time to pursue them, but I always end up doing things like watching exhibitionist anteaters on YouTube instead.

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2007-12-05T19:00:42-08:00

Ladies and gentlemen, it's a pleasure to meet you all. My name is Preston Spradling. I teach 9th and 10th grade English, Debate, and work as my school's Assistant IB Coordinator. I spent 15 years in Africa and three in Vienna, Austria. Since 2000 I've lived in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. As part of my job teaching students who read below grade level, I use a number of comics and graphic novels as part of the literature for my class. Thankfully, I get complete support from my administration and department head when doing so.

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2007-12-05T19:05:45-08:00

Behold! I figured out how to get my image to appear. Sorry for any confusion.

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2007-12-05T20:28:14-08:00

believe it or not, my friend was telling me all about the bizarre spiny anteater (Echidna the only other monotreme besides the platypus) and his four headed penis just the other day. Oh, the things you learn in an "evolution of sex" class.

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2007-12-05T21:44:57-08:00

Greetings everyone,

I’m Don English. I live in Vancouver BC where, by our standards, it is currently very fucking cold. During the day I work for legal aid. I help put criminals back on the street where they belong. When I’m not working I am finishing my first novel, drinking and gently crying. I am writing this when I should be working.

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2007-12-05T23:08:42-08:00

Preston, I'd like you to know that, as a High School English teacher, you are a goddamn HERO.

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2007-12-06T00:45:57-08:00

I am Emily Foster, and my name and animated likeness is currently being used as a teacher in Witchgirl Adventures. (I take no credit for the website design, and may have to have a talk with the designer tomorrow, actually, because there's no reason for that many scroll boxes on any page ever) The animated me is much more exciting than the real me. I reside in Irving TX with my dog, two cats (one borrowed), and my family-by-choice. This is the most recent picture of me. I can't wait to get my hair cut, because as you can see, its just ridiculously long.

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2007-12-06T03:53:00-08:00

I am Eric Spatt, unaccomplished writer studying Creative Writing (and English in general) at an interesting college in Indiana. You have to use the term interesting because, if you have never been to the Midwest or lived here, interesting is as cool as it gets. I'm working on about fifteen different story ideas for books, plays and short stories. Unfortunately I seem to lack to dedication to just one of the stories in order to see it come to flowering age. I can work on them at the same time or not at all it seems and I think it is driving my lady friend insane.

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2007-12-06T05:17:50-08:00

I am Chris. I'm way down South in Africa.

I might put up a picture later.

Cheers,

Me.

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2007-12-06T07:57:54-08:00

I am Brian. I work in science communication - up until very recently I worked on what was called the science bus (a coach which was gutted, and then two fully working labs was put inside - it has water, power, gas, heat, the whole shebang. The bus goes to primary schools, where we take kids on the bus and they get to do science experiments). But, due to funding...shenanigans, it isn't on the road right now. So, to kill time and pay bills, I teach an astronomy course and a course called superhero-science to academically gifted 8-12 year olds.

I was on the bus when it was featured on Irish channel TV3, and the clip is on youtube, for those that might be interested
(There's about a minute and a half of "what's coming next" sort of stuff at the start that can be safely skipped...)

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2007-12-06T08:13:06-08:00

I'm Ben from sunny (read rainy) Somerset in the south of england.

I'm a tool for the local goverment where I survey buildings for asbestos and otherwise waste tax payers money
my interests outside of potentially carcinogenic materials lies in comics, films, science and drinking enough cider to make the world make sense.

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2007-12-06T08:24:41-08:00

All Hail Warren Ellis!

My name is Keith and I'm from the great-taxed state of Connecticut. I dig all Warren's work, Garth's work, and Alan's as well. Nothing beats Transmet other than Preacher. My collection includes such Ellis titles as Black Gas, Black Summer, Crecy, Planetary, Transmetropolitan, Ultimate Galactus series.

I work for the government, but I haven't killed anybody, not that it is my job description, but you never know when a disgruntled worker will come around the corner talking about his family and just needs to be shut up with an axe to the head. Used to be in the Navy - loved it, but didn't want to keep moving.

Married. Two kids. House. Beer. I think that's all I own. Not sure though.

Love my comics, racquetball, family, beer, Howard Stern, Sirius Radio.

I'm sure I'll mess up the picture below.

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2007-12-06T09:18:59-08:00

Father of a budding comic fan (little Chaos Jr.).
Aspiring comic artist.
HUGE fan of comics, booze, and a few things that shouldn't be spoken of in mixed company.
Work a job I swear is beneath a battery licker (WHEE! Temping!).

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2007-12-06T09:21:10-08:00

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmopolit&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=3&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DKosmopolit%26hl%3Den%26c2coff%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG

A cosmopolitan and a cosmopolitan (by Greek kósmos = + polítes = World Citizens), also a citizen of the world, is a man of his identity and his belonging more to humanity than about connecting with his social class or especially in the modern era, with his nationality.
...
The term was in the composition "root cosmopolitan Loser" as anti-Semitic descriptor.

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2007-12-06T10:34:43-08:00

I'm grenacia on the internet, Sharla in real life. I'm in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA and I work for a printing company doing computer pre-press. I do a wide range of artistic and crafty things and writing from time to time, but have decided that being ambitious about them is not worth it to me. I prefer to spend as much time as I can reading books and comic books.
a picture of me that I like, a few years old but I don't look that different:

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2007-12-06T10:53:39-08:00

Hello, I'm Joe a.k.a. "papajoemambo". 40. Taurus. Bibliophile. Luxuria Music Fanatic. Comic Book Junkie. Copy Writer. Former Actor and Musician. Popular Culture Maven. I live in Toronto and I work in a Comic Book and Paper Nostalgia shop. Sometimes I don't type very well.

Someone made a short movie about me (and with the exception that I no longer have any direct involvement with Canada's Joe Shuster Awards, it's still mostly accurate) - clicking on this line of text should bring you to where you can watch it if you like.

And that's probably more about me than any of you really wanted to know.

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2007-12-06T11:29:05-08:00

Ello I am Ray, I go by Carney on the internet. I think I have developed internet ADHD, but thats another story. I read way to many comics as well. I work at a hotel, and just got the bad news that my paintings didn't sell in Portland Oregon. And have been currently working on some illustration for a book. Here is one of the illustrations-

Here is a picture of me in an installation I worked on in 06.

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2007-12-06T12:56:51-08:00

B. Clay Moore.

"Clay," although I answer to "B" and "B. Clay." And whatever else gets shouted at me.

Most often these days I write work-for-hire, but I still throw creator-owned work into the black abyss of reader and retailer apathy now and then, usually for Image. Also for Oni.

Next up are a couple of DC books debuting in February, something from Wildstorm in the spring. Hawaiian Dick and '76 from Image. A new largescale creator-owned project with Tony Harris before too long. I drift around.

It's snowing in Kansas.

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2007-12-06T14:28:29-08:00

Hello, my name is John Popa. I'm 34, in Ohio. I work as a bill collector by day, write a bit and do a lot of theater at night.

It's a living.

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2007-12-06T17:06:09-08:00

Will Reaves.

26 year old university student pursuing a pompous and largely unemployable program (English/Professional Writing double major, History/Philosophy double minor). Presently employed as the technical office manager for a privately owned U.S.-based ISP. Prior employment includes jockeying phones in a cube farm, managing a bookstore, and being a repo man.

Aspiring (read: frequently rejected) writer, scotch and whiskey enthusiast, and dutiful follower of the Internet Jesus and the Discordian Goddess.

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2007-12-06T17:33:48-08:00

I'm Donna. I'm a games journalist and all around geek. I'm a transplanted American who escaped to the UK 7 years ago.

I'm the crazy woman who created the Holy Slut Army tshirts.

This is my ass

These are my boobs

I do have other parts, but those are the important ones.

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2007-12-06T18:33:13-08:00

Scott here.

I'm a cartoonist and general director for Big Head Press, a tiny bump on the fly's ass of the comic-book industry. Please buy our books.

I'm really busy right now so I probably won't be as visible here as I was on The ENGINE. But who knows?

This is more or less what I look like, except my hair's longer now. You can tell I'm a cartoonist because of the whisky I drink.

I grew up in Texas and lived in the Los Angeles area for 14 years but now I live in Cheyenne because, at age 50, I'm pretty sure this is as close as I'll ever get to Mars.

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2007-12-06T18:56:04-08:00

My name is Patrick, I'm a student at the University of Kentucky. I work for peanuts drawing cartoons for a local paper (which can be seen here) and do other things for money as well.

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2007-12-06T18:58:26-08:00

Artemis, that was very kind. Many thanks.

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2007-12-06T19:46:02-08:00

My name is Erik, I'm a 33 year old American who grew up in Germany (and lots of other places) and studied Chinese in the UK. After 7 years of working as a product specialist for 3D graphics software, I decided to stop being a real person and go back to Uni. Now I am doing a masters in public affairs in Columbia, Missouri. Life is very strange, at the best of times.

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2007-12-06T20:59:58-08:00

Amber from New Hampshire USA. Fan and lurker mostly. A nurse and mom the rest of the time.

Perhaps there will be a picture below, if so I am small and on the right.

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2007-12-06T23:03:37-08:00

Hi. David Allen Jones, aka Johnny Bacardi. Prepress graphics and graphic design and parttime AM radio DJ (or "on-air personality", as they call 'em these days).

I used to blog a lot, now not quite so much. I draw a little when I'm not careful.

I'm older than probably 90 percent of you reading this, not that it matters all that much. Live in a small town in south central Kentucky. Have been known to drink to excess.

That's all for now.

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2007-12-06T23:52:18-08:00

Linden here. In the words of Jack Benny, there will now be a pause while all of you say, "Who cares?" I am an aspiring writer/cartoonist/whatever else tickles my fancy (I have a very ticklish fancy). Born and raised in the Twin Cities. I've gotten very good at aspiring over the years, I should really consider going pro with it. Execution of these pursuits however, is still a depressingly infrequent event. The most recent picture I have of myself is my passport photo, and no one but the U.S. Government and airport security deserve to see that monstrosity. Maybe I can scrounge something up if it is demanded (for some unforeseen and probably terrifying reason).

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2007-12-07T02:17:02-08:00

mo ali. I'm in the south-east of england, hence my constant misery.

artist, poet and writer.

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2007-12-07T06:22:40-08:00

Paul Buntine - Glasgow, Scotland. Pisces. Work for a huge financial company and steal their internet on my breaks and lunch.

Been a fan of Warren since Transmetropolitan started and followed his projects since.

I read as much as possible - Novels, biographies, history and of course comics.

I am more of a reader than a poster so I'll have an embarassingly low post count but I look forward to reading everyone elses interesting posts. That of course means you are going to have to be interesting!

Cheers

Paul

Have a picture

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2007-12-07T09:44:40-08:00

I'm Randy, perpetual student at the crux of creative writing, journalism and graphic design. Translation: undeclared.

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2007-12-07T10:21:45-08:00

I'm a college student in Los Angeles, I live in North Hollywood, and go to school in the Valley. I'm studying English(God help me), I enjoy making collages, music mixes, film and literary criticism, short stories, scripts, and reading comics, articles, essays, and fictions of all sorts. I dont speak html, so I got this thing that does it for me.
myspace.com/doormousejism

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2007-12-07T13:23:29-08:00

I'm Sam. I'm a sound engineer and musician (no, I'm NOT on the sodding dole!). I live near Cambridge, in England. It is very flat here.

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2007-12-07T15:48:00-08:00

I'm Alysha.

The only interesting thing about my job is my cubicle where my Tick action figures stand proudly and defend me from man-eating cows. I am a dirty filthy person with a pirate whore mouth. I look fucking marvelous with a mustache. PROOF. I had a dream once that I was stuck in a zoo and Neil Gaiman was my boyfriend. He got jealous because I was hitting on a woman named Warren Ellis who was wearing a bright red business powersuit with an 80's haircut. I have an unhealthy obsession with Batman (where he's badass and not some pussyass jerkoff who makes robin pay the toll for parking the batmobile because it's "right"). I love dirt rock, Dunhills and Labatt 50.

yep.

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2007-12-07T17:02:30-08:00

Name is Randy, i own a comic book and collectibles shop here in Baltimore, Maryland - Collectors Corner www.collectorscornermd.com ...its clean & cozy, family friendly with steady heavy foot traffic. We carry a more diverse selection than pretty much any store in Maryland and also rent dvds, sell used trade and GNS.We play good music in the store and discuss comics, movies, pop culture and off topic personal matters daily.

Me personally, im a conspiracy nut, Ramones fanatic, an avid reader and fan of horror & science fiction films.

Self adoration is pretentious, but hey all the kids are doing it...but i still can't bring myself to take a fucking picture of myself like everyone does here and on myspace...can't do it oh yeah and i like using these periods in threes at the end of sentences...whats that called?

Favorite comics and writers : Grant Morrison, Moore, Warren is catching up, Garth Ennis, Milligan, Vietch, Preacher, Transmet, Animal Man, Doom Patrol, Black Summer, Invisibles, The Filth, The Boys, The Exterminators...

I look like this next to Jerry Only of the Misfits :

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2007-12-07T18:55:06-08:00

I'm Stephen.

I'm a linguistics student living in East London (I used to live in Whitechapel, as it happens), so I have more free time than is strictly necessary. Other than linguistics and languages, my main interest is music. Listening to it, I mean, I have no real talent in playing and making, despite trying sometimes. I have no idea what to say.

Pictures, pictures..

The best I found is this from my girlfriend's phone (alright, there was also one of me wearing nothing but balloons, but you don't get that). It's from a few months ago, we're standing on a support thingy of the millenium bridge in London, near the Tate Modern. I'm the one at the front.

Well, that was going to be your lot, but I found this one after looking harder:

The black splodge isn't permanent. I think it was a drinking game.

Can I stop now?

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2007-12-08T11:20:30-08:00

Hello,

My name is Lee and I live in (not from, just live in) Dallas, TX. I work in healthcare purchasing for my day job and at night am remodelling a house with my wife. Suprisingly, even though I have a table saw, mitre saw and tile saw i still have all 10 of my fingers.

I also read a lot, which is how I know about Warren, and I figure I should interact with someone that has so much of my income reserved for whatever insanity he's writing down.

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2007-12-08T15:03:56-08:00

My name is Nathan. Hi I'm Nathan.

I'm a second year undergraduate student from Canada. I spend my days studying physics, and some other less exciting things than that.

This is me! Don't be fooled, I don't actually play the guitar, as the guitar in the background may seem to imply. I DO, however, play the trombone.

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2007-12-08T15:43:27-08:00

This is photo of me from about a year ago, I like it because you really can't tell what I look like even though it shows most of my face.

I am 17 and junior in High School, I like books, comics, indie music, old music, older music, and smoking. I think my favorite book ever would be American Gods, or maybe Watchmen. My favorite writers are Neil Gaiman, Garth Ennis, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, William Gibson, Stephen King, Michael Crichton, Lovecraft, Robert A. Heinlein, Seth, Dan Clowes, and of course Warren Ellis. I'm a bit scared, this is the largest online community I've ever joined, I'm not sure what to expect. And yesterday my friend told me I was Radar from M*A*S*H*, whatever that means.

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2007-12-09T07:32:29-08:00

Gareth Madeley. Almost-award-winning Welsh language indie rocker.

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2007-12-09T14:06:23-08:00

My name is Michael Woods. I'm a writer and editor working in comics. The last book to drop with my name on it was PopGun from Image comics.

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2007-12-09T14:43:22-08:00

Hello all , I go buy Unsub because the first forum I signed up for was at the same time as an awful TV show that said the word every 10 seconds and I had no idea I would be stuck with it for years. I am 32 years old ,a knife junkie ,comic book junkie, Motorbike junkie ,and regular everyday drug junkie. I live in northern Saskatchewan because Siberia was not cold or uncomfortable enough. My favourite authors are Ellis(of course) Ennis ,Brubaker and Vaughn as well as regular book authors Neal Stephenson(he is the print version of Ellis) and Bernard Cornwells historical fiction. I don't have any pics of myself on my putfile site but this one is painfully accurate.

I also enjoy destroying delicate ecosystems with my quad , shooting and eating tasty animals with my bow and generally trying to make up for all the pansies in the UK.

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2007-12-09T17:19:13-08:00

I thought Ellis was the print version of Ellis now...

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2007-12-09T18:04:47-08:00

Been lurking since opening day. Finally go around to linking a picture and such. I like it here.

Cheers.

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2007-12-09T20:41:31-08:00

Adam Ferington. Former journalist, current film maker and freelance creative consultant. I've gone sideways from my preferred home of Chicago to back east and my ancestral home of Shithole-on-the-Canadian-border, otherwise known as Rochester, NY. The market, she keeps me grounded here for a bit.

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2007-12-09T22:09:32-08:00

Tim O'Brien.
Tim O'Brien lives in the Canada.
Tim O'Brien is celebrating the halfway mark of "Fuck My Body," the first portion of the Glorious Five Year Plan. He is very tired.
Tim O'Brien is not a student anymore, but while he works hard with the paper and inks, he must scream at trains 60 hours a week to make enough money to leave the Canada to see how everyone else lives and dies.
Tim O'Brien has never paid attention to message boards before, but is willing to give this humdinger a whirl, before he falls off the ride and vomits on your girlfriend.
Tim O'Brien will learn about the photographs when he buys himself a camera. Until then he is shit.
Tim O'Brien will share his website when it does not look like shit.
Tim O'Brien will not use his real name again. Tim O'Brien is not the marking that one wishes to burn onto the surface of the moon.
Tim O'Brien is trying.

Go.

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2007-12-10T00:09:28-08:00

J.D. Renaud. Piontless name, Amos is better.

Actor, singer, dancer, farmer, midget, squirrel, needle and thread, a large factory with a small team of workers in it. I have been many things to many people in my life. First and foremost, full time record store worker and part time writer and video maker. I only get paid for one of the three. Take a guess which one.

Making merry and joy with Tim O'Brien via a website that never does what we want it to, no matter how many tears are shed or whiskey bottles are hurled. When we figure out how to not handle the internet like the guy from Of Mice & Men handles his retard strength and pets soft and beautiful things to death, we'll let you know.

I'm the one in the hat.

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2007-12-10T01:28:08-08:00

My name is Arthur, but I go by Owesome because it seemed like a good idea at the time to choose a handle based on a joke that only 1/1000th of the world's population understands. I hail from Christchurch, New Zealand, thus helping to fulfill this board's obligatory South Pacific quota.

Left to my own devices, I would stand in front of Pikmin posters all of the time.

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2007-12-10T01:32:58-08:00

Dammit! Now the south island outnumbers us!

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2007-12-10T08:36:01-08:00

Hello All! I'm Ruth, Ruthie to most. Lucid, or Lucidia, or rarely, Lucid Revolution to some.

I can't find a "nice" picture right now, so this is how I feel today:

I work in the apparel industry (as an artist/cad designer), at a company that makes women's "intimates". Sometimes it's fun, and even rewarding. Usually not, but whatever. It pays the bills and gets me the holy grail (health insurance). I reside in the NYC metro area.

I read comics, I collect toys, and I knit. I also do other things, such as write, design jewelry and accessories, study tribal bellydance, and I have become quite the aspiring photographer. Photography and writing are currently my focus for 2008.

I love getting to knew new people. Especially people who don't follow the crowd and conform to the "norm". People who know who they are. And people who don't like to lie.

That's all I can think of, in zombie mode.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-10T08:43:52-08:00

Nice to see you here, Ruthie.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-10T08:55:20-08:00

Thanks for the welcome, and thanks for putting together all these fancy tidbits of web-er-y to distract me from my job.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-10T15:27:32-08:00

@ Madeley -- While you're rocking in Welsh, you should slip some vowels in there. You know, for variety. Y doesn't count. Neither does W. It'll save your glottal bits from imminent shredding via the coughing barkfest of the Welsh language.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-10T15:31:18-08:00

My name is Philip A Moore a self professed comic junky and a custodian hey we can't all have fancy jobs I don't belive in being mean and pop up everywhere I also have Asburgers so I know alot I used to post in Warren's Delfi atleast eight years ago current I'm in joying scalped thunderbolts crossing midnight and a lot of others .
Good day

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-10T15:51:04-08:00

Hello darlings,

I'm Rachel. Some of you know me already. I live in Sydney, Australia. I answer stupid questions for a living.

I'm single, bisexual, kinky, horny and I still won't sleep with you.

This is not my hair.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-10T23:13:18-08:00

I'm R. Francis Smith. If you're old enough, you may've known me on the WEF. But you're not, I can see that from the profiles I've skimmed, you're mostly horrifyingly young, and it depresses me. I'm approximately Warren's age, me. I used to claim to write but I've stopped making claims of most sorts. I do podcast from time to time. I work on computers and actually get paid for doing that. I have a wife who is lovely and two daughters we adopted in Kolkata who are also lovely if also terrifying. I'm terrible at keeping up on web forums so I dragged my feet getting here. Everything else is hopefully going into my profile, so click on.

Many people call me Random. It's not really what the R stands for. I mean, although it can be, if you like.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-10T23:48:56-08:00

@rfrancis

Were you ever involved in a message board/IRC room for a webcomic called AcidReflux?

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-10T23:50:21-08:00

@Ben: Nope, never heard of it, sorry.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-10T23:56:01-08:00

@rfrancis

Hokie, no problem. Just curious.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-11T00:15:59-08:00

@grenacia:

I do a wide range of artistic and crafty things and writing from time to time, but have decided that being ambitious about them is not worth it to me.

It warmed my heart to read this. You pile up enough friends who're published in this and work in that industry and so on and so forth and you feel guilty about saying "That's swell, I enjoy these things, but that's got to be enough for me." Okay, I'm probably projecting, but _I_ have been known to feel guilty for etc, not to mention occasionally putting myself through hell thinking I've got to change my amateur ways. So, warm heart, as I say. Also, Twin Cities, yay woo! (I've got family in Roseville.)

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-11T11:27:37-08:00

I am Lauren.

I write technical documentation for developers and system administrators. My hobbies range from scuba diving, hiking, and horseback riding, to cooking and crochet. I am an avid reader of graphic literature and nonfiction both. I like to travel. I hate having my picture taken.

I rarely participate in these forums, but do enjoy lurking and reading what everyone else says.

Glad to be here!

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-11T13:29:55-08:00

@Pygmy:

I scoff at your puny vowel-filled language.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-12T02:50:59-08:00

I'm Ryan. I have a B.A. in Cinema. I deliver pizza. I just had an interview for a library assistant job, so we'll see how that goes. I'm currently trying to get into a Ph.D program so I can get a real job at some point.

" alt="Me in the hotel from Lost in Translation. I'm the one with the camera."/>

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-12T08:49:54-08:00

I'm Travis . I'm a policy consultant in suburban DC. I write and occaional publish.

www.thetravisphere.info

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-12T13:20:40-08:00

I'm Dylan Dwyer, I am a religion/theatre major at a college in Berea Ohio, so i apparently don't want a job, well either I don't want a job or I am going make a musical version of The Passion of the Christ, really could go either way.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-12T14:20:59-08:00

i'm michael. i just moved from south carolina to beaverton, oregon (it's right beside portland) because my girlfriend might be able to use her theatre degree here. i make comics and fill out job applications.

sometimes i look like this

and right now i look like this

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-12T23:58:24-08:00

Well this is me, as of 2 years ago in Ireland.

I am currently working full time in a coffe shop, as a Barista, Shift Lead and all around Coffee and Tea Expert. Prior to that I was in school earning my now wasted Masters Degree in Literature. I have worked as a Retail Slave, Security Drone, Truck Driver and High School Tutor. I have many hobbies and interests including: Comic Books, Reading (mainly science-fiction/fantasy/horror), Video Games, Pottery,Archery (Traditional Longbow), Motorcycling, Flyfishing, Herpetology, and sometimes writing. My wife and I are animal lovers and have many pets: 4 cats, 1 dog, a Bearded Dragon and an African Grey parrot.

Anyhow there is enoguh useless crap about me to choke a horse.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-13T11:51:27-08:00

I'm Alex, Kingsland is not my real surname, but I use it to honour my grandparents when I write stuff.
I write stage, direct stage, produce stage and all that bollocks.
I'm also an obnoxious self-opinionated, cunt of a bar tender and I love it.
I also work at a scrap yard, where I get to smack the shit out of inanimate metallic objects that don't fight back. This pleases me as it contrasts smacking the shit out of the fuckers that fuck with my staff.
My interests include the above and I like violence in all its forms.
The end.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-13T17:40:30-08:00

Hi, my name is Christopher Doring.

Here is a very bad picture of me.

In the winter, I am a working Chef, playing my trade in various vile eateries in the Albany, New York area.

In the summer, I care for the expensive landscaping of the wealthy, mostly by spraying poisons to kill the insects devouring their genetically altered, climatically stressed trees and shrubs.

I read voraciously, spend way too much money on comics, and smoke a lot of pot.

I don't speak much, but I see everything.

Introduce Yourselves

2007-12-14T16:22:06-08:00

Hi, I'm Peter.  During the day, I work as a records clerk for a Very Big Law Firm.  The work is oddly meditative at times.  But the chief perk is "judiciously" using my Net access during my down time.  No visits to the Suicide Girls Website for me, sadly.

In the off hours, I do a little bit of freelance reviewing for a couple of small publications.  But more frequently, there are evenings when I turn into the ghost patron of the local art film theaters or a political campaign ronin.

Unfortunately, my ability to understand how to use computers to post pictures or suchlike stopped somewhere around Alexander Graham Bell's birth.  So there is no personal picture to post.  The best I can offer is this link:     I'm the gent in the hood and glasses.



Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-15T19:48:50-08:00



@Miranda's Eyes:I'm the gent in the hood and glasses. 


Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-16T10:31:09-08:00
I supposed since I've been commenting for a while i ought to introduce myself. My name is Lee, LBA is not my initials, but it is the initials of a screen name I go by on another board. I have a job that sounds boring, but I enjoy it and really enjoy the people I work with that involves negotiating contracts for large pieces of imaging capital equipment for hospitals, and no I'm not a lawyer.

Currently I'm remodeling a house with my wife so I have lots of power tools, building materials and all that stuff, so I'm planning on doing something completely weird at the end of it, like building a Tardis or something else just as geeky.

This is me in San Diego a couple of years ago on Vacation, I currently live in Dallas, TX but don't hold that against me.




Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-16T11:56:44-08:00
My name is Svetlana Chmakova and I am a graphic novelist/mangaka!  Can't wait for FreakAngels  :D


Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-16T12:04:59-08:00
Yay Svet! I was wondering if you were going to show...


Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-16T12:07:44-08:00
SVET!


Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-17T07:50:19-08:00
Juan Navarro, Cuban/Mexican Artist living in too many places 

I'm the bearded one.
ThisIsJuan.com


Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-17T08:30:11-08:00
Hey, all! I'm Jon (registered as Madbloke as a reflex reaction, but I've no aversion to people knowing my name) Willoughby.
Big fan of both Warren's work, and wasting my employers' money spending all day on forums! Resident of Blackpool, England.


Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-17T10:12:06-08:00
Hello! I'm Tom. I'm a student from Canvey Island, Essex (stalkingly close to Warren) who should be writing an essay. I'm not that exciting/talented/drunk so I will just say some things im currently enjoying. Reading: Black Summer, Watching: FLCL, Listening: Sigur Ros, Eating: Marmite. I look forward to reading your posts. 
 
This is a picture of me trying not to look scared of my girlfriend's snake.


Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-17T11:51:26-08:00
Hello. I'm Jen Rodland. I live in Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania. I'm a high school student who might be foolish enough to major in English next year in college. I created my username years ago by the eyes-closed-button-mashing method, and have stuck with it ever since.

This is me with a polar bear.


Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-18T01:11:04-08:00
Hey my name is Jeff, I study political science ( the reason for my cynicism ), I work in a library and I am the procrastinator extraordinaire...as well as the philosopher king.




Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-18T13:06:40-08:00
hello everybody,

i'm Bruno from nothern Italy, university student, comics reader, countryman, gdr player and something more

i'm not looking at all of your photos, using a 56k it's hard to see all of yours pictures people.....


PS: i say already sorry for all my mistakes with the writing, sorry

this is a photo of me with my undearwear on my head




Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-18T13:09:06-08:00
mmm i should learn to use html :D 

anyway, if you wanna see the photo, the direct link is this 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v160/Kizkan/kizkanmutanda.jpg


Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-18T14:04:53-08:00
Kizkan  - there's two little radio buttons underneath the post box for text/html.  If you're doing anything with a tag (img, href, etc) just select the HTML and it should work.


Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-18T16:49:29-08:00
I'm Tony - I'm impressively lazy and generally read comics, watch movies and play videogames rather than doing anything productive.

I work at a museum on the Doctor Who exhibition and by 'work' I mean 'use a usb pen drive to red books on my till'.

Here I am in a Batman mask.


That is not my hand.

shit, that image is wha-huge.


Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-19T00:26:35-08:00
Hello,

Ryan "das" Dawson, writer of reviews, stories, articles-- currently working on my first graphic novel/screenplay. My hobbies include psychonautics, evolution, and energy work.    




Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-20T13:22:34-08:00
Hi, This Is JoeViturbo, I signed-in a while a go but never posted a pic.  

here I am on one of my plant fossil finding trips


Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-20T15:59:56-08:00
My name is Kristian. I live in Albany, NY. I pretty much suck on the sweet teat of an RSS reader and internet forums for information overload during my work day, and at night I do the same thing except I'm playing WoW or Second Life, too. I do stuff, sometimes.




Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-21T05:57:27-08:00
Hi, I'm Sam.  I'm a programmer and designer living in London.  In the past I've been a farm boy, a research psychologist, a lighting designer, a postgraduate researcher working on nanomaterials engineering, a theatrical costumier's flunkey, and a festival organiser.  

This is me - 



Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-21T11:15:07-08:00
I am Barry Hensey. Most people don't know me.




Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-21T15:01:05-08:00
Jason Caskey. 36 year old,divorced, living in the America's heartland, smack-dab in the middle of nowhere,Iowa.

 My days are spent working with elderly people suffering from Alzheimer's and/or profound dementia. My nights are spent avoiding contact with the rest of the human race and trying to be a little-better-than-sub-par writer.


Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-22T12:02:22-08:00

Hi, I'm Jess. I'm a 25 year old artist in michigan who dabbles in a great deal when her carpel tunnel, tendonitis and whatnot aren't acting up. I read, write, and doodle my way through my days, and try not to drive too many folks insane.


Just call me Roo.


Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-24T03:03:55-08:00


Hello there. My name is Andre Navarro, I'm Brazilian and still a student. My plan is to work as a creator. Writer (comics or novels), actor and filmmaker are the professions I'm aiming for. It's gonna take a lot of work, patience, ambition and frustration, but that's life, deal with it.

You can find me in the web by the nickname Andrenavarro. I use this name on Newsarama, Comic Book Resources, Rottentomatoes, YouTube and Uncyclopedia. In Newgrounds, I chose the nickname "Stickiller", because I was very young and stupid. In Break.com, an unfortunate accident with typing gave me the nickname "Fergweghfer" or something close. But in most places, it's Andrenavarro. In MySpace and Orkut, it's Andre Navarro. I was an user of The Engine.

Also, I absolutely love to write. As you'll notice on the unnecessarily long list below.

Loves: Art. Especially Cinema, Novels and Comics.

Hates: politically correct, stupid celebrities, George Bush, the be-skinnier-than-a-matchstick female body standard, etc. It's a long list. Hating things is fun.

Favorite Comics: Preacher,  Hitman, The Boys, Hellblazer, Punisher MAX, Authority: Kev, More Kev, The Magnificent Kev, A Man Called Kev, Pride and Joy, Unknown Soldier, 303, Watchmen, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, V for Vendetta, The Killing Joke, Transmetropolitan, Planetary, Fell, Desolation Jones, Astonishing X-Men, The Dark Knight, Give Me Liberty, Sin City, The Ultimates, Sandman, etc.

Best Comics Line Ever: Vertigo, easily.

Favorite Writers: Garth Ennis, Warren Ellis, Alan Moore and Frank Miller.

Writers I Desperately Try to Like but Can't: Paul Jenkins and Grant Morrison.

Writers I Hate: Chuck Austen and Jeph Loeb.

Favorite Artists: John Cassaday, Steve Dillon, Bryan Hitch, J. H. Williams III, Jim Lee, Darick Robertson, Mike Deodato jr., Goran Parlov, Leandro Fernandez, etc.

Artists I Hate: Humberto Ramos and Rob Liefeld.

Favorite Novelists: Sidney Sheldon.

Favorite Filmmakers: Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino. (no, NOT Kubrick. Respectable but overrated)

Filmmakers I like but don't reach the ones above: Danny Boyle, Chan-Wook Park, Paul Verhoeven, Marc Forster, Spike Jonze, Spike Lee, Tim Burton, etc.

Filmmakers I Hate: Paul W. S. Anderson and Uwe Boll.

Favorite Screenwriters: David Koepp, Charlie Kaufman, Christopher Nolan, James Cameron, etc.

Screenwriters I Hate: Paul W. S. Anderson, Uwe Boll and Akiva Goldsman.

Favorite Actors: Tom Hanks and Johnny Depp.

Actors I Hate: Hayden Christensen and Orlando Bloom, both can be out-acted by the Wilson football from "Cast Away".

Favorite Actresses: Uma Thurman and Jennifer Connelly.

Actresses I Hate (but are hot): Elizabeth Shue and Jessica Simpson.

Cutest Face Ever: Keira Knightley. She could gain some weight, though.

Favorite films: Oldboy, Taxi Driver, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Carlito's Way, Children of Men, the Bourne Trilogy, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Star Wars saga, the Godfather trilogy, the Indiana Jones trilogy, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, V for Vendetta (the only good movie to be made out of an Alan Moore comic. And it's a REALLY good movie) and hundreds of others I can't remember right now and I'm sure I've bored you already.

Movies I Hate: Anything by Paul W. S. Anderson and Uwe Boll. As for the rest: Terminator 3, Saw (how could people fall for that stupid ending?), Hostel, Fantastic Four, etc.

Favorite Human Being: Bill Hicks.

Funniest Person Ever: Bill Hicks.

Other Funny People: Billy Connolly, Chris Rock, Will Ferrell, Jim Carrey, Eddie Murphy (as a stand-up comedian).

Things I do: Write, animate in Macromedia Flash, amateur drawing.

Religion: None.

Believes in God: no.

Likes when people try to convince him to become catholic, scientologist or whatever: no. 

Smokes: no.

Drinks: no.

Will smoke: not likely.

Will drink: Not likely.

Drinks: Coke.

Needs to stop drinking Coke: yes.

Snorts: nothing.

Injects: nothing.

Orientation: heterosexual.

Politics: WAAF (We Are All Fucked) Party.

Is Feeling Guilty for the Size of this List: yes.

Does he care: no.

Does he want to marry Jennifer Connelly: yes.

Will he make it: yeah, right.

A little overweight: yes.

Too much: no.

Really: yes.

C'mon, you're fat: no.

Admit it: no.

Needs oxygen to breathe: yes.

Does his mother knows he's gay: yes -- I mean, no -- ah, fuck you.

Is he fat: I told you I'm not.

Admit it: no.

Has ever been to Mars: no.

Is this list becoming too long: yes.

Shall we stop: yes.

Ok, then: right.


Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-24T08:43:32-08:00
Hey I'm Bill - run several blog type sites, do some occasional podcasting - the usual suspects.  I hail from the wonderfully wacky world of South Carolina, USA.

This is me with my son:



Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-24T13:29:25-08:00
I'm Nick. I'm 19. aspiring starving artist. I'd like to teach(art) one day. that is if I ever find the money to make it through school. My only real contribution to the art world so far is having done some murals for a few buisnesses in the small town I inhabit. also some modest design work here and there.
this is me:



Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-24T22:45:49-08:00
My Name is Calvin Itkonen. I read picture books and I like to think of myself as a future fashion icon. 



Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-26T12:32:35-08:00
Brian Wood.  Showing up a little late to this one.


(in Lucca, Italy... too much wine, not enough sleep)


Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-26T15:10:35-08:00
Hi,

I'm sometimes Buffo Yahoo, a writer, artist and photographer and this is my combined political, religious and everyday philosophy...




Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-27T07:55:33-08:00
... oh and this was the last portrait taken of my mortal shell before I began my experiments with Madam Blavatsky...




Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-28T12:32:51-08:00
Hi. Douglas Rushkoff, here. Showing up even later than Brian Wood, above. 
I actually missed why the "other" place moved. But that's because I was buried with work and some dreadful real world things to contend with. 

My first series, Testament (Vertigo), will conclude with the next issue. I'm already working on the next series, which should be beginning before the end of the year. I have an official non-fiction book to write by summer, so I don't expect to be here as much as I'd like to until August. 

This is me: 



Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-28T14:51:08-08:00
Nice to see you, Doug & Brian.


Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-29T07:29:46-08:00
Hola. My name is Michael. When not telling lies for the government (dammit, local government), I like to run around the English countryside pretending it's 1647 and I'm a Leveller. As well as writing features about comic books and their creators, I'm also the editor of The End is Nigh - the official magazine of the Apocalypse. Go wikipedia it, go on, you know you want to, I'll wait ........ there you are, cool eh?




Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-29T11:26:55-08:00

Hi, I'm whats known in the trade as a 'philosopher of physics' (when the trade is philosophy that is). I'm into the foundations of modern physics, structural realism and the work of many of the folk posting here.
cheers,
Steven


Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-29T11:39:18-08:00
Apologies - goofed up the image. This is me on a 50th birthday flight to see the Northern Lights my dearest organised last year. Didn't see much more than a green smudge but it was still cool.



Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-29T17:04:49-08:00
Steven Perez.

Amateur writer and student of the human condition.  Currently residing in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Here's me with my head exploding.




Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-29T22:18:33-08:00


Hi there, I'm Omer Carrothers. I'm the bald guy guy with a goatee on the right. Why do bald guys always have goatees? Is it because we have no ability to grow hair and have neat hair that we have to have some sort of facial hair? I don't don't know, but if I could grow a righteous fu-manchu-style bit of facial hair, I would be stoked.

I somehow clusterfucked my way into the television broadcasting industry and have been doing it ever since. I work in the capacity of a newscast director. I'm the guy telling the camera crew what to do and when to roll the tape during the news, and when the wrong thing pops up on your television, that was the technical director not paying attention.


Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-30T02:38:10-08:00
Things that make my life worth living:

Heavy Music

Movies based on things other than reality

Comics that make me say "Oh, Fuck!  Did that just happen?"

      I'm not here to be clever, although I aspire to maybe make some of you giggle.


Coolest picture I've ever had taken of me.


Really enjoy Warren's writing, he's top shelf, top of the stack every month.  Looking forward to reading the novel.

P.S.  I haven't looked like that in years, but I'm about out of the military & I'll be growing the hair out again.


Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-30T17:01:03-08:00
Hello!

My name is Daya van Langen. Had I been allowed to choose my own name I would've gone with something along the likes of: 'Carefull Bites'. 

I was infected with the comicbookfancy nigh 14 years ago. An issue of Moonkight, carelessly discarded by it's previous owner, leapt up and bit me while i was thumbing through the secondhand bookstore rack. 

Two cats and a boyfriend (the one that didn't flee in fear) make me a generally less grumpy person. :)




Introduce Yourselves
2007-12-30T18:18:13-08:00
Hello all!

My name is Sasha Makarewicz. I'm 18 years old and a student at York University. I'm an English major and writer. 



Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-01T03:02:42-08:00
Brown, David M.

Human, writer (comics, screenplays), musican, revolutionary...in that order.  Nice to meet ya.



I'm the strange looking guy...on the left.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-02T14:37:30-08:00
Hiya folks,

My name is Cory Brown and I live in Berkeley, California.  I run two independent record labels, Absolutely Kosher Records (which I started a decade ago, and where I recently released the 60 Watt Kid album (among others) that Warren just featured on the 4AM) and Misra Records (which I took over managing a little over a year ago).  Here I am:
Nice to meet you all.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-03T05:34:44-08:00
Hi, I'm Colin, Irish transplant who tends to be found in Austin, Tx, San Diego, Ca, London, England and Dublin, Ireland. I  have a number of publishing imprints which will actually be publishing something starting with my first book, Notions, a collection of short stories at the end of this month and following up with various other things, including acting as editor of a university press imprint dealing with aspects of Tolkien Lore. 

I also do a couple of radio shows, one for a chain of Irish comic stores and have gotten to interview some great people for that show such as Steve Niles, Leah Moore, Bryan Talbot, SImon Furman and David Lloyd, amongst others. 

You can catch me on http://thecolin1.livejournal.com amongst other places- glad to be here and see so many other at least theoretically interesting people on board.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-04T11:36:02-08:00
Hi. Bram Clark: single father and writer. Currently packing things in Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A. Moving to Inverness, Scotland at the end of January/beginning of February because I found my Soldier Girl. If anyone has any immigration tips for man plus baby, let me know.
Me and the Goblin:



Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-05T15:21:46-08:00
Hey there, I'm Dave Maciver and I'm using a nickname that I've had since I was 8, and generally go by online.  I'm an voice and moving around actor, and I do a daily column thing on thisisby.us which was WAY more popular before I stopped doing it for 2 months...  And I look like the below picture




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-05T23:07:03-08:00
Hi. I'm Mick Green, 22 year old janitor from Canberra, Australia. 




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-08T14:21:01-08:00
Most people know me as "blu"... I was the editor of StarVox.net (goth music zine), now dabbling in painting, graphics, photography, all things Scotland, traveling and whatever else I can find.  

Livejournal
SecondLife: Cerdwin Flanagan




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-09T08:24:34-08:00
meee, tom fox, musician, acupuncturist, massage therapist, i also run a charity for tibetan refugee cihldren.

i'm great.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-09T08:26:02-08:00
 If anyone has any immigration tips for man plus baby, let me know. 


good luck trying to understand the scottish ;)


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-09T08:58:49-08:00
I'm Jeremy, Upright bass player/singer, full-time nicotine imbiber, part-time artist/fire-eater/spfx makeup dabbler, former tattoo artist, future Bowling Alley Owner of America (tm).

i look like this, while scowling and smoking on the balcony



Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-09T09:55:10-08:00
Moving to Inverness, Scotland


color me deep shades of jealous
one day... one day....


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-09T21:36:50-08:00
I'm Zach.  Born and raised in the horror of Texas, recently relocated to the horror of the Bay Area.

Former pro-am mixed martial artist, student journalist, and IT professional.  Now a graduate student doing the sort of biology that pisses much of America off.




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-10T02:38:28-08:00
Hello there. Jess. 27. Neighbourhood scarylady and comicwhore. I do things. I mainly do things on the intarwebs. I also drink coffee on hot days, which has been happening alot here lately. Melbourne, Au, here. Not the interweb here. That would be odd




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-10T12:27:04-08:00
Hi I'm Greg Giordano. I am a seething, freelance art-primate. Currently working on a couple of co-created books- one of which is about things victorian, western, secret societal and magical. You can see my work on my flickr page.




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-10T13:28:20-08:00
Hello, I'm Aeire.
I write things that people read.
I'm here to read things that people write.



I'm 31, but I try not to act like it.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-11T00:16:42-08:00
!!!  Whoa.  I think I love this place.
QoW ruled!


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-11T08:23:28-08:00
I'd be jelous of the guy moving to Inverness, but I already live in that area.

Comic shop is called Heroes for Sale, it's on Church Street (middle of town), the owner is called Gary and is a very nice guy.  Go buy things from him.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-11T09:58:33-08:00
I'm yet another Josh. I'm that guy people hire when they have no idea who to have do a job. I work for a comic store, a library and a couple of temp agencies at the moment.
I really liked Fell.

This is me trying to take my own picture with a digital camera and the bathroom mirror.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-11T15:46:26-08:00
Hi, I'm Tony.  I run a small technical support/customer service center for a company in Redmond, WA that makes a projector that will be embedded in your cell phone.  We are also working on a real version of Spider Jerusalem's glasses.  

Personally I enjoy gadgets, books, comics, tv, movies, anything to push reality away from me for a few hours.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-11T15:50:38-08:00
Hey, I'm Bret. Graphic designer, artist. I live in Vancouver, BC.




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-11T17:05:28-08:00
" that makes a projector that will be embedded in your cell phone. We are also working on a real version of Spider Jerusalem's glasses. "

!!!!!!


DETAILS!  (in another thread, please)


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-12T16:08:48-08:00
Hello, all.

I am Zachary Marx Weber.

I used to hang out as Iconoclast Zach on the Engine, and that's also my LJ handle.

I write as Zach Marx on the groupblog Eleven Names, and use that handle on Whitechapel Market, because I apparently loathe any kind of consistency in my monikers.

I look something like this:



I'm hoping to write on grinding.be as well at some point.

I am a junior in college, and have yet to declare a major that I actually intend to graduate with. My efforts are split between Physics, Math, Political Science and English, mostly writing of various sorts. The plan is to make a living as a writer of some kind, possibly a science journalist, after I graduate.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-12T17:01:41-08:00
Hi, I'm Devin. I'm currently a computer science student living in Rochester, NY and working as a computer programmer. As soon as I finish at RIT, I'll probably move to the Northwest US.

Here's a picture of me that isn't quite as bad as most of the other pictures of me:



Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-12T22:04:14-08:00
Hello!!!!  My name is Danny and I'm a humble bloke to this world. I currently reside in Mine Hill. NJ and trying to find my footing in the rite path.



Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-12T22:33:19-08:00
My real name is Nabil, but I've also gone by Nadreck for over a decade now, and answer to either name quite readily.

I'm a generalist geek: I helped start a gaming convention (still own 10%, but I'm more of a silent participant now); worked testing video games; worked as a photographer's assistant; did small business tech support and network installation; dragged out a bachelors degree in creative media across many years, as an excuse to travel and do neat things on someone else's dime.  I love to write, find redesigning my website simultaneously frustrating and cathartic, and don't take nearly as many photographs as I used to (and plan to again).

I'm a teetotaler on multiple fronts: about the only vices I have are caffeine, sex, and information.  I'm fascinated by and attracted to talented, intelligent people, as I find that passion and interest for SOMETHING infectious and appealing.



Me more recently:



Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-12T23:46:11-08:00
I like to go by the internet handle Glukkake.  I'm an "up and coming" illustrator, which really just means that no one has hired me yet.  But I'm working on that.



This is a not-at-all recent picture of myself, but it truly captures the deranged/confused look on my face whenever I travel in the subways.  I hate fluorescent lighting.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-13T01:42:06-08:00
Ahoy hoy i'm sidney and i'm a student film maker...  yeh yeah yeah i know that being a student and a film maker is hard but i manage! i

the following tis a pic of me at halloween my one and only goth attempt! 


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-13T17:23:57-08:00
Steven Kaye, lurked around various Ellis forums in the past. Currently trying to convince Bay Area companies they want a librarian. Someday I will have a better photo than this dated one.




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-13T19:54:41-08:00
Kaioti_ugly  (netsurfer, geeky fanboy extraordinaire).  I'm usually standing when checking my emails (as is evidenced by the photo), but I when reading Warren's posts and emails (because, yes, they're That Good).  I live in sunny California, so I'm usually topless, despite the fact that I've tremendous shame about my body hair.  God, however, kicks down and, while cursing me with a hairy chest, saw fit to bless me with a dick so big it doesn't return Spielberg's phone calls.




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-13T21:11:42-08:00
My name's geoff. I write stuff and draw stuff. mostly write.



Pocket Full of Mumbles (my blog)


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-13T21:13:39-08:00
if I had abs like the guy in the pic above this post, I could do my laundry in the shower.
and why are all the women on this site so hot. Pic after pic, I-I just can't concentrate.
As for me, I can't draw; seriously. When I draw stick poeple, they look like crippled pygmies, 
but I play the organ grinder when it comes to Photoshop. And, I have ideas. 
Fantastic ideas. Some are the greatest thing since bacon.  
I just hope our collective madness can change the world.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-13T21:29:00-08:00
Burch, 23, Cincinnati (the most boring city on earth.) Student, would be writer, comic whore, and sometimes I make funny faces



I attend a small school in northern Kentucky where I try to study their grasp on English. I work on the interwebs at the time being, "facilitating community" (yelling at kids.) I miss bartending.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-13T21:41:54-08:00
Eli Green.

Student, friend to all, latter-day warrior god-king of midtown Tulsa.

Working on moving, working on graduating, generally just working.

Currently coasting along on a mug full of The Glenlivet and ears full of The Triffids, so, y'know, happiness.

To veteran Engineers and M. Ellis, hello, all.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-13T22:26:40-08:00
Barista by day, bartender by night...student and cartoonist when time allows.  

The name's Jarrod.  Pleased ta meetcha.





Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-13T23:05:35-08:00
Hi there, boys and girls. i go by the title 3d Graffiti, but 3d for short. 

Cartoonist. Graphicnovelist. Writer. Stand-Up Comedian. Artist. Janitor. 




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-13T23:06:03-08:00
Sorry.




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-13T23:35:53-08:00
Hello my name is Devon  and I'm a writer, penciller and inker and character designer.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-14T00:28:36-08:00


Hello, My name is Josel NIcolas and when Im not stealing my friend's glasses I can be found lurking under porch stairs drawring and writing comics. :D


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-14T01:37:53-08:00
hi, i'm steve tillotson and i make banal pig comics, which take the form of a 3 panel webcomic at www.banalpigfunnies.blogspot.com and small press comics- see previews at www.ditcb.co.uk/banalpig.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-14T02:44:22-08:00
Hi, I'm Matthew Dunn (normally known as Matt, but I've seen another Matt Dunn posting here so figured I'd make it easier for everyone).  I've just launched a quarterly comic series "LONELY MONSTERS" and also do storyboard and general design work for film.  For regular updates on Lonely Monsters check out  Lonely Monsters Blog


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-14T03:32:44-08:00
Hey, I'm Paul Burke and I dabble in comics, though I'm taking it a whole lot more seriously these days.



I did some writing and producing for the Night Warrior webcomic which I eventually left to pursue my own stories.  I'm now writing sci-fi faux-noir The Retrospective Detective for Ambrosia Publishing (due out later this year) and just getting started on a short graphic novel called Hushed, a period occult horror.

I also scripted a short animation called Blasted Angels.

By day, I sell my arse to pay the bills.  By which I mean I work in a complaints department and get fucked by customers all day long.  And I've just quit smoking.  Approach with caution.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-14T05:17:34-08:00
Hi im Frank Allen im a serious web comic creator come illustrator. 
Im also a musician an interested in apply this field to my comic or 
anyone else who is interested in calloborating.




Im not nearly as crazy as i look in this picture,  ive have many faces.

My comic is at 

My illustraton web page is www.allendesign.eu

My music is at www.myspace.com/aworkoffriction and also www.myspace.com/chameleonbluemusic all artwork by myself


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-14T05:23:23-08:00
man those links are all messed up

 for the illustration site

 for the comic




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-14T05:35:04-08:00
hello, world! my name is Michael Hall. i've been writing and drawing comics since i was eight. i think i'm (at last) ready to see my work in print. looking for some computer help...


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-14T06:30:47-08:00
Kernow drunk here.......amateur musician and unprofessional lecturer. Based by the sea. I don't show up in photos for some reason. Nice to be here xx


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-14T06:53:05-08:00
Steve Goldman here... Miami-educated, New York-fueled, Austin-living public policy student/future wonk (if it isn't obvious from the picture) and writer of comics/prose/stage.  Work to date:  "Styx Taxi," "Everyman: Be the People," anthology stories, and lots of works-in-progress.  School's going to slow that process down a bit, but what can you do?




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-14T07:46:11-08:00
Hello all!  I just joined today and I must say this is all kinds of cool.  My name is Nathan Thomas Milliner and I have been an independent comics artist and writer for about 5 years now.  I have published 8 books but I am ready to find a publisher to take my work to the next level.  I am very glad to be here and looking forward to meeting as many of you as I can.  We have to support each other!



Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-14T09:43:08-08:00
Hi, I'm Max. I don't have a current photo, but the image in my profile is somewhat accurate (I left out all the details that weren't true). This is the third forum Ellis has lured me into, if you don't count the Engine Network as a forum. I keep thinking I should stop doing that.

Anyway, I'm writing and drawing, creator-owning and publishing comics as well as texts about comics (and other topics). Mst of it is in German, some isn't. Links are in the profile. I mean, really, no photo, but planting a linkfest? Not me.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-14T09:56:55-08:00
My name is Larry, I'm 36 and a wannabe writer. But who isn't, right?

I am working on a website called Pop Culture Asylum that will be focusing on comic book news and such, but will be geared more toward the independent side of the industry. We were supposed to open last June, but I was moving too fast and decided to slow down. I'm planning on being up shortly after HeroCon in North Carolina.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-14T11:14:07-08:00
i'm christine. i make web sites for a living. i am in a serious electro-pop band called Macaque (as serious as that can be)
You can read about Macaque here I live in Chinatown, NY. It's a bit noisy but I love it. I love comics and I miss the Engine so I am finally here.
Here's a recent picture of me performing at the Annex in New York City.



Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-14T11:31:55-08:00
Nice to see you again, Christine.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-14T12:02:25-08:00
My name is Steven Van den Broeck... and that's the main reason why I usually use the name Art Grafunkel online.

I live in Belgium, I'm a husband and father of two kids, professional graphic designer, and I like to do some illustration and animation on the side.

And I have a B L O G.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-14T13:54:55-08:00
I'm Bart A. Thompson in print, but I go by Alex Thompson in social settings.  I'm a writer, small press publisher, letterer, editor, and other positions that are needed or seem fun at the time.  I'm a Virgo/Libra cusp.  A recovering DVD-a-holic.  I stopped drinking soda about 10 years ago.  Ummm... can't think of any other random stuff at the moment.

This is what I look like:

Ummm, it was some joke that was funny at the time.  Yes, that's a hedgehog and not a porcupine.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-14T13:59:48-08:00
Drew Springer. 23. Oklahoma, USA. I have a webcomic called Hunky Dory which hasn't updated in a while and I don't know when it will again. I'm working on other comics stuff.

I like comic books (Batman, many things by Warren Ellis, Daredevil, the Flash, Rex Mundi, etc.), novels (Haruki Murakami, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, etc.), TV (mostly stupid sitcoms...and The Office), and music (David Bowie, Nick Cave, Radiohead, Modest Mouse, and holy lord so much more).

I used to be engaged to a girl I love but she left me. This preoccupies my thoughts a lot of the time these days.

If you want to see photos look at my profile; my Flickr photostream is on there.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-14T14:26:43-08:00
3!LL, 24, male, human.

Hello. My name is 3!LL, I am the digital expression of a brain that sits in a head that's top on a body that's behind a computer that is allowing me to convey this message. There are lots of middle management involved in the process, yet I didn't hire any of them. I can lie fairly well using lines, and have so far convinced people that several collections of lines are in fact a series of moments in time, that when viewed in the right sequence create a story. I enjoy bad wine, long walks, and hermaphroditic porn. 

Glad to meet you.
3!LL


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-14T16:04:28-08:00
mojojoseph, 23, male, passes for human.

Hi, my name is Joseph 'Mojo' Davies, I'm an aspiring writer...scratch that...I am a writer, I'm an aspiring published writer. I wokr in a lot of different mediums and genre, try to try my hand at everything, and am even occasionally artistic and musical. 2008 is a big year for me, watch this space.

I'm fairly n00bish tech-wise, but I'm getting there.




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-14T18:53:16-08:00
John Sokol, 42 years old, packaging engineer in NJ



Just got back from "camping" this weekend, if one can camp in a cabin with heat.  It's a long story.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-14T19:45:44-08:00
Hi I'm Shawn Richter.

33 years old, in college for Early Childhood Education, with plans to get my "real" education degree to teach highschool art.  Just bought a house with my fiance; we'll be married in Cancun next January.  I'm a comic artist with a half a dozen projects under my belt (currently drawing "One Last Song" from Brainscan Comics) and way too many project in the works without publishers...

Here's me:



Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-14T23:33:03-08:00
My name is Steven Bateman. I am currently employed as a warehouse operations specialist for a produce distribution company. I am also studying the culinary arts, and I spend my free time with my kid, my wife, or building complex and/or totally copied objects in Second Life.

I don't have a reliable image of me yet, but people tell me I look like Jim Belushi. With a beard. So imagine that, I guess.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-15T07:23:47-08:00
michal liberak, 36, poland.
- electronic noisemaker - verbalizer.org  
 (my recent track to the spoken word of mr.vi)
- 50% of the creative force behind Neurosteam (interactive flash-based webcomical chaos heutemorgengesternwelt interface) - neurosteam.com (despite the site is in deep alpha, please note tastefully seasoned emergent audio background and mad flash actionscript skills of the other 50% of the creative force - hmfactory. nevermind. more to come.) 
- irreality drone
- freelance experience designer (conceptual services)
- project manager at an edu-software fabrique
- warrenellisoholic




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-15T08:00:58-08:00
Hey. Matt Wood, or on rare occasions, Dr. Victor von Phlogistein. I'm a writer, a reader, and a bit of a comics academic. My home base is in Raleigh, NC.

Along with my partners, David Milloway and Stephanie Freese, I'm one of the creators of The Dada Detective (and other likely stories).



And have a Zombie Lincoln, too




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-15T08:38:53-08:00
Hi everyone. My name is Wesley Craig Green and I run Ambrosia Publishing, a digital graphic novel company. Before that, I wrote and self-published (along with artist Jason Whitley) the EVIL DEAD-inspired horror graphic novel, BEFORE DAWN which Jason and I are currently working on a sequel to.

I've been following/stalking Warren since the Delphi days. Glad to see he's got another forum up and going. And here I am in the wilds of Canada wishing I had the power to cause excruciating deaths for all mosquitoes and flies around me.




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-15T09:06:36-08:00
Hi all!

I'm Andy Curry - designer, musician and actor - probably in that order.

This is my ginger snaggletoothed face.



Charmed to meet you all!


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-15T09:34:07-08:00
K. Thor Jensen - cartoonist, father, bloodhound for the fucked-up and broken-minded. Day job at one of the world's best game companies, night job hunched over scraps of paper crafting dipshit epiphanies for undergrown manchildren (and womanchildren). Massive sinus headaches. Probably already on the enemies list of a dozen posters here. 

Here's me and my family:




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-15T10:09:50-08:00
Jon Zuluaga, officemonkey out here in Madrid, Spain going on five years now. Originally of Manila, Philippines.

Joined the WEF about a year before it closed. Joined the Engine a little more than a year and a half before it closed. Hopefully I haven't doomed Whitechapel's existence by finally signing up. Just here to see what the interesting people are talking about.


drink?


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-15T11:52:17-08:00


Greetings, all.  Matt Maxwell here, occasional lurker, full-time father of two, author of the graphic novel Strangeways: Murder Moon and ne'er do well.  I'm wearing the tight plaid above, not the stripes.  Well, that was a couple of years ago.  A touch jowlier now, hair shorter.  Still enduring the occasional temper-tantrum.  I am allergic to beer (a grave personal tragedy), enjoy the occasional scotch (cheap-ish Glenlivet or Glenfiddich at this time), and have never been to England.  Were there a Venn diagram of myself and Warren, one of the few areas of overlap would be My Bloody Valentine's LOVELESS.

I'm quite sure I've broken something in the board because the preview looks a bit wonky.  Oh well.  

EDIT to reflect fixing.

-Matt


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-15T11:57:54-08:00
Hello, I'm Christopher Moonlight. This is a very old photo. I didn't have a wife and baby girl then, but I like it. I love comic books and being and art teacher at Art Is Our Passion. I have my own comic called The Black Lipstick Curse. I'm trying not to be a totle web junky so I'm only going to post a little. 



Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-15T12:30:59-08:00
Since I just posted five hundred words in the ShagPunk thread I figure I should introduce myself to the kids.

I'm Chris Sick, everywhere I go.  I'm professionally unemployed unless drinking is a paying job in some utopia I've yet to be informed of.

I look like this:


You can catch me yelling at the sky and being angry at the sun over at MySpace or, possibly, sometime in the future blogspot or blogger or some such...


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-15T14:22:59-08:00

I'm Eliza Gauger and I'm one of the co-stars on Ectoplasmosis, which was launched by myself and John Brownlee, nee Florian Eckhardt, after a few years of working together on Kotaku.com and then the Wired blog, Table of Malcontents.  I don't write for Ectomo as much as I should.  We have droogs to do that for us, which has made me lazy.


I'm an illustrator.  I got my start doing about a quarter of the artwork for the infamous Book of Erotic Fantasy, which was intended to be the Kinsey Report for orcs, but turned into something approximating slashfic forums.  I've worked on the Legend of the Five Rings CCG, Blue Rose from Green Ronin Press (who still have not paid me, and if you douchebags are reading this, I hope they find you being alternately eaten, and fucked, by your German Shepherds), Malinche Entertainment's text-adventure games, a whole slew of tiny projects, and once in a while, even my own stuff.  Typing that out made me very depressed.


My most recent project is Unhallowed Metropolis, probably the only RPG I'll work on ever again.  RPG illustration doesn't pay, and when it does pay, it doesn't pay well, or on time.  I wrote the chapter on fashion as well, and did a chunk of the art directing.  UnMet is steampunk horror, essentially, but the authors would prefer it if I pointed out that the tech is Tesla, not steam-powered.  Galvanipunk?  Regardless, I fucking love what we did.  
http://newdarkage.net/
Here's some of my stuff from the game: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eliza/sets/72157594486002140/


I also write for Destructoid.com as a games journalist, although I don't do it nearly as much as I should.  I'm sensing a pattern, here.  And I'm going to stop typing before I start crying.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-15T14:25:34-08:00
...I'm a little worried about Eliza, yes.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-15T14:34:53-08:00
Greetings,

I'm Mike Hankins, creator of the webcomic strip "Dorm Dorks."

I do all the work on the strip, but I've got some scripts for some supernatural thriller type stories that I'm looking for artists for.



Check out the comic at www.dormdorkscomic.com


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-15T14:41:57-08:00
I am Russell Burlingame.

I'm a journalist, columnist, reviewer and graphic novelist.  Currently working as Special Projects Editor for Greg Palast Investigations, and working on a graphic novel that will be out in time for the American election.



Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-15T14:51:04-08:00
Hey, Russell.  Nice to see you here.

-- W


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-15T14:51:53-08:00
How do, my name is Sarah.  I enjoy it's relative anonymity and also the fact that I look exactly like someone (female) you know.  No.  Seriously.  I have seen my doppelganger.  Twice.  Two different women.  Very odd.

This is me, just in case you are mentally flipping through your acquaintances:



I read much and write slightly more than I used to.  I have a morbid sense of humor and a love of all things soup.  I drink Tequila straight because I can.  

I live in Nebraska.  On purpose.  And love it.  And am not on drugs to make me believe that what I just said is true because my reality is that of a gerbil in an ant hill.  I dig insects.  And finally graduated with a Bachelor's in English which means that I never have to justify being unemployed ever again - my degree didn't prepare me for a life of productivity.  Really.  

This is my life, which makes me very happy and means that I can quit typing soon because almost everything that is important to me or that I am involved in (outside of the crochet thing) is right there.  That's really fucking cool.  I hadn't thought about it before.  Hunh.



I float about.  I leave comments.  Sometimes they are good and sometimes they are in sarah-speak which rarely makes sense to anyone.  Even me.

Is good fun and lots to learn and see so far!  Am Happy.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-15T14:59:37-08:00
I live in Nebraska. On purpose. And love it. 

We will therefore need to see photos in the Outside World thread.  Welcome.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-15T15:40:48-08:00
I'm Sullivan Eliot, and I'm resisting the temptation to say I live right below Nebraska. Looks like I failed. I'm 19, a college sophomore, a student pilot, and staff member of the Independent Comics Site. I do a lot of lurking, and very little talking, and I fancy myself an author, but everyone knows this is a delusion of grandeur, and by reading this, you know it as well.

I'm not clever at all, and I can't draw, and no, I wasn't being sarcastic. I've done a few things which might be clever, but there just isn't enough of it for me to be considered consistently clever. If you believe what they say, I've got a demon in me. Of course, the exorcism(s) didn't do anything, so I think it's safe to assume I'm quite alright. I don't particularly enjoy exorcisms, so I'd make a bad sex partner for the religious. That and being a virgin.

I have a terrible propensity to put the wrong words into places at times.

My greatest personal achievements include winning a College writing competition as a home schooled high-school student, getting my Eagle Scout rank, moving out of my house, and scoring a 5.5 on my Windows Vista computer test. Obviously the computer score is the most important one, as I built it to perfection. Speaking of computers, I enjoy building, disassembling, and reading about them. I like to think I'm neutral about internet memes. I will never post any pictures of me on the internet, because I look normal and nobody wants to see normal. It's all about freaks, abnormals, and large breasts for them.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-15T17:57:57-08:00
All over the internets I call myself thekamisama. In rare moments, I give out my real name. Hello from Curtis, industrial factory goon, sometime painter/artist, and addict of things geekery. I have a crappy livejournal. Plus an equally bad blogspot that I only post stupid photoshops and drawings on.



Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-15T19:05:51-08:00
I'm Paul Addison: 35 and from Belfast, Northern Ireland.

I work in tv radio and new media. I also hoke about in graphic design.

I'm sidling up to the last chapters of that novel that's apparently in everyone. In my case, it's fairly niche and not something I'll be talking to people at bus-stops about: a gothic Western with snow, wolves and thaumathematics. I'll be trying to get the damn thing published later this year. It's starting to feel like a good friend that's come to stay for a while but just won't leave. I'm all pleased with it so far though. Which is probably just as well.




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-15T19:35:32-08:00
Hey everybody. I'm Vetes. Just going insane on my end. Started making some techno-style music and it's starting to infest me. All I think of is different beats in my head. I'll submit my song for the 4am when I finish for sure.




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-15T22:29:47-08:00
college grad working in a deli. trying to be a cop in DC :) i like to pretend i can write screenplays and draw. can't wait to get out of this 2 star town and back to DC. (Pennsylvania: Where fun goes to die.)



that's me, in cuba, after climbing the sierra maestra.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-15T22:39:39-08:00
(Pennsylvania: Where fun goes to die.)


Pennsylvania is plenty fun, you just have to know where to look. (I still haven't found it, but I'm assured it exists.)


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-16T00:40:23-08:00
Hi everybody. Bedroom rat/unemployed cartoonist in Albuquerque, NM. I've got a Flickr stream and a website where you can see some art and comics and read descriptions of my dreams, which are fascinating.

This is me. That little orange pixel in the bottom-middle is the charging light on my DS.



Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-16T07:18:52-08:00
Hi everyone, I'm Billy.  I finally made it back to my homeland of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY, after years of exile in New Jersey.

This is about what I look like, more often than not:



This is my face:



This is pretty much what I do.

Hello!


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-16T09:36:30-08:00
So I guess this is the part where I introduce myself... 

I'm Dani, I'm 21, I live in BFE Georgia, and I spend most of my time in Atlanta. I have a degree in Culinary Arts and Am currently working on a degree in Chemistry. I do many things, though I try to make my money off of cooking for people I've never met. I am currently looking for a new restaurant since my current boss seems to think that I can live off of twenty hours a week. I also work work part time at a comics shop in Atlanta doing everything from sales to handling the general Wednesday mayhem. I am working on two cookbooks at the moment. The first cookbook is how to survive college (or just being broke) with nothing more than a microwave, coffee maker, an iron, and a washing machine or dishwasher. The other book is cooking for the cyberpunk age, I'm on a quest to bring Molecular Gastronomy (that is a great site if you are interested) to the home. I am setting up a blog to chronicle my writing (and to improve my style) I'll link to it when it is up. 


--Dani


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-16T11:08:28-08:00
Hello everyone.  I'm Hannah.  From Montana.  Not to be confused with a TV show of a similar name.

Librarian.
Comics aficionado.
Caffiene dependent.
Proud parent of a comics-loving kid.
Nerd.




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-16T11:50:57-08:00
Hi. I'm Brian. I call myself a cartoonist, but I have yet to publish anything. I'm not sure if that's even the qualifier for being a cartoonist. I'm also a musician, and have studied zen for a while. I'm completely naive when it comes to computer/internet stuff, which is really embarassing for someone of my age (I'll be 29 tomorrow), so I appriciate any patience you're willing to provide. 

Like, if someone could explain how to post pics on these comments, it'd be greatly appriciated. 

I've got some of my art on my Myspace page. If you've got the time, check it out. My name there is Brian, the struggling cartoonist!

Cheers! b.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-16T12:08:37-08:00


My name's Alexander Morgan.  Al or Alex is fine.  I live in Leicester, the one in the middle of England, which is probably nicer and more interesting than you think.  I'm doing an office job I hate for the most despised group of people in the country whilst trying to be a writer and a journalist.  I'm 24 next week although I look about 30.  People are very helpful at pointing that out.  I'm single, live in a bedsit and don't enjoy talking about myself very much.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-16T13:05:36-08:00
I suck at introductions. I'm A.D. Puchalski.  I'm an illustrator.  I've designed toys.  I work a lot of weird freelance. I help to publish a film magazine.  I'm also way behind schedule on a graphic novel series (story and art) that caught the attention of an agent late last year, which means I can't flake out and drop it when I get frustrated, because these people are working on getting it a publisher. So they tell me, anyway. I look forward to screwing up enough courage to actually participate in discussions here.



Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-16T18:25:20-08:00
I'm Alistair, English and living in Brazil for the past 15 years. I used to subscribe to Warren's old site but I've no idea what happened...duh! Anyway, here's me and my son:




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-16T18:28:09-08:00
Seems I'm having image problems!?


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-16T18:30:08-08:00
Blogger images don't link out.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-16T18:39:49-08:00


Hello,

I'm Stew Carrington.  My wife and I gave up the transmetropolitan life for a wee bit o' country.  

We flipped a house in Portland, Oregon (US of A), and bought 6.5 acres of trashed forest land here in Port Townsend, Washington (US of A).   Now we're cleaning the place up-- farming, building, and loving the rural life, while also working as technical support for a 'hydrostatic' stability software (provides loading/safety data for water vessels in a static environment) company.

I enjoy Mr. Ellis' wild ramblings and interests, so I read.  Here.

Thank you all for a beautiful site.

s


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-16T19:02:53-08:00
It's me. I'm mostly here to make Ellis feel really really old. I may produce a picture at some point, but we shall see.

I'm still slogging away on my doctorate, and I've been sucked into campaigning recently. Nothing much has changed, as you can see.

Edited slightly because someone reminded me sharing certain things is not wise.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-16T20:10:13-08:00
and I've been sucked into campaigning recently.

Dare I even ask for who...?

Nice to see you.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-16T20:18:33-08:00
Dare I even ask for who...?

Clinton. I bet you're not surprised by that one either.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-17T01:11:44-08:00
My real name is Joey Cruz, but I go by NeverWanderer on the interwebs because it's the cleverest handle I ever came up with and I'm determined to milk until it's dead.

I do data entry for an environmental testing agency by day and write comic reviews for a website called Geeks of Doom by night, all the while pecking away at my own comic projects in the hopes they will someday catapult me into that happy place of being able to be creative all day long, only occasionally leaving the house to restock my ginger beer supply.

I'm not holding my breath.

This is me pretending to look surprised...

...did it work?


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-17T01:15:07-08:00
Howdy , Im Daniel ,Im 19 and Im from New Zealand . Im a comic artist who is studying graphic design and i also run a small casual desing business type thing(Blackball design).Im also a painter , illustrator and a radio DJ.

Most of my work can be found on my myspace (website coming soon) including my comic 'Blackball' which has been running for around 3 years now over two publications.

http://www.myspace.com/blackballcomics

i have yet to make any money of it..haha...so im also a struggling artist. ;)


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-17T01:26:41-08:00
My real name is Simon Burke. You can call me Carl. Haha, look at you; Calling me Carl, how embarrassing.
I study everything at a University by day and kill people by night (in dreams... or in writings... plays, comic bits, short stories). Let's see if I have a picture...
Simon
My shirt has my name on it because I'm awesome by my standards. Why would I be anything else?
The campaigners are all evil


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-17T07:38:43-08:00
Hey everyone! my name is Dan and im English, but am going to college in the US 

right now i am working on a new web comic called Paco & Smooch, it should be really cool when its finished!

if anyone wants to check it out please go to Whitey Pro 2


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-17T07:42:03-08:00
Ok im not so good with the link think LOL

www.myspace.com/whiteypro2





Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-17T08:32:41-08:00
Isaac Sher, still figuring out what sort of creative work I want to do. 

That's my new nephew Jeremy that I'm holding, and my dad's face along the edge.




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-17T10:19:54-08:00
Toby Jay Kernan, occasional writer of poetry, possibly a comic in the near future, short stories, and other works. Painter. World's Greatest Wingman. I even sell lumber and hardware to pay the child support bills...




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-17T10:36:05-08:00
My name is Dusty.  I make television commercials for a living and I'm a smartass for free.




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-17T10:52:43-08:00
Hello all, me Salgood Sam, and be backwards in mirror. Me draw and sometimes write, edit sound, take pictures, stuff like that. not feel to loquacious today, so me be basic.





Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-17T11:13:27-08:00
Hello, my name is Jethro Henry Stamps. I record audioburps under the pseudonym Jethro Furvert and was on Warren's 4am (3, I think). Ta Warren. I'm a cameraman for pennies and enjoy skulking round cinemas in the afternoon, hoping no-one shouts at me for being an un-productive shifty ginger bum. 



Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-17T12:42:47-08:00
Hi, I'm Kayleigh, aspiring writer of transgressive/bizzaro things and hopefully a lecture in two years.  My first book is coming out next March, for which my Catholic grandmother might be getting excommunicated for showing round her church group.

Photo is from pissing around in the studio.




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-17T12:48:40-08:00
I joined solely to pimp my wife's college funding business, after months of thinking I should really just join because Internet Jesus told me to... Internet Jesus commanding me to open up a market stall in his Temple? I'm there.



I listen to a crazy selection of noisy music, I spend more time behind a camera than in front of it, I'm an accidental computer geek, and I'm thinking about finally going back to school so I can learn more about science. Homeopaths piss me off, and I need more ammunition.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-17T13:09:27-08:00
Andria Corvid. Photographer, artist, occasional writer of...things.




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-17T13:25:54-08:00
zoem // zoembie // sevenbridges // elizabeth

((zoem is the sound of humming electronics and bees))

photographer // other 




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-17T13:33:28-08:00
I'm Curiosity, you can call me Curi. 27 years old, living in Chicago. I'm a Gothic Lolita who makes music and artwork. I'm currently accepting boyfriend applications. My diet consists exclusively of marbits. Why not hear my music right this second? myspace.com/curiosityband

Curi.




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-17T14:22:58-08:00
My name is Helaine. I'm from Australia, currently living and going to school (for illustration) in Lancaster, PA.

I do a lot of things, including but not limited to, drawing and writing.


The rats are Brain, Muscles and Methhead.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-17T15:49:51-08:00
@redwhiteblack

Your rats are awesome!


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-17T17:44:55-08:00
I'm Jenn Rodgers. I just joined today. I'm an illustrator. Sometimes a colorist. I also make a weird line of Greeting Cards. Hello there.

This is one of the last pictures taken of me. By J.R. Blackwell:



Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-17T18:54:52-08:00
Hi everyone.  My name is Jay Carvajal and I'm a writer, artist and owner of Cinemacomics.  I'm on the left in the pic in case there is any confusion.  The other is named Wally and he's the brains behind the outfit.




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-17T19:25:56-08:00
Let's see if it works now!




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-17T21:07:18-08:00
You can call me Kat, Kitty, Katelan or Kate. I'm an illustrator, writer, lover, and a fighter. I'm a pinup model living in NYC.
I also make a bangin' cup of coffee. 



Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-17T21:49:34-08:00
Hello, I am Sean.  I live in Massachusetts.  I've been watching people be interesting on the internet for years now, particularly on sites created by (or about) Warren Ellis.




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-17T22:36:29-08:00
Howdy.  I'm Jon.  I live in enemy territory, aka- Texas.  I'm an aspiring writer, an aspiring comic creator, and an aspiring agoraphobic.

I've never aspired to be a photographer.




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-17T23:53:31-08:00
Hi, I'm Thorrific.  I am originally from Dallas, Texas but now I live in Seattle.
I am a visual artist and musician.

I create web-based audiovisual artwork that is interactive and animated. Most of the works are about cultural pathologies and dangerous archetypes.  The soundtracks of the works add more levels of correspondences and meaning to the experience.  

I also make artwork in traditional natural media such as oil painting, drawing, and sculpture.

My photographs are about the physical body, the sufferings and the pleasures associated with the physical body, the methods that humans have evolved to survive and make themselves more comfortable (like flourescent lighting and air conditioning), the spaces that people gather to buy things they need or want, distribution of goods and services, consumption and overconsumption.

I make my art and music as acts of sorcery directed against totalitarians of all types.    

Here I am in my messy room, before I got my hair cut recently:



Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-18T09:01:59-08:00
Hello, my name is Nick Allen, originally from Perth, Scotland: I've been an expat since 2001, however.  I now live in...of all places...Houston, Texas.  If you don't know where Perth is, you're all the better for it.  And if you don't know where Houston is, or even Texas, don't worry, because I'm just making the place up.

Like most of you, I'd like to say I'm a writer, but really I'm more like Chuck Norris: I never have to touch the keyboard, I just stare at the alphabet quite brutally, and out of fear, they simply form the words and sentences for me.

I like a lot of stuff, but I'd be buggered to think that you'd find any of it interesting.  Oh, well, maybe that I served in The British Army, during 1993-1995, in n. Ire.  And I can also embalm dead people legally.  Yes, I certainly can.




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-18T09:52:17-08:00
Hello. I'm 17 years old, my birthday is September 19th, 1990 and I live in Finland.
I like to draw and I'm addicted to comic books.


Picture was taken at Hamburg.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-19T04:47:44-08:00
Sean Elliott.  I'm a part time writer and full time science communicator.  

That's me, with the beard.



Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-19T06:48:39-08:00
Hello.  I am Ewan.  I am 24 years old.  I know Mr Duffield, we were at school together.

I am a sound designer and spare-time musician.  I have a Drama degree and am studying Soundtrack Production in Bournemouth at the moment.

I saw Akira when I was maybe ten and since then have been into anime and manga.  I've only more recently started reading western comics.  My favourite comic of all time is Lone Wolf and Cub.




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-19T09:19:37-08:00
hey, my name is André, i'm a 27 year old musician from Montreal. currently drumming in yet another band, and studying electroacoustic composition at Université de Montréal. i run the music department in a local chain of bookstores, and i spend way too much money on comics and vinyl. 



cheers!


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-19T21:28:08-08:00

my name is lauren. i play lead guitar in an imaginary rock band. i'm the one with the smaller mustache.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-19T21:43:37-08:00
I'm Tim, and... oops.

Registered in a frenzy, following the Engine's funeral and neglected to make my first post my "intro" post. However, said frenzy resulted in only a solitary post before this one...

Anyway, I'm Tim, an accountant as far as the IRS is concerned, but an inveterate comics reader as well. 

In real life, I looked like this once (after slipping on an issue of Brian Vaughan's Runaways in my driveway while jumping out of a moving vehicle in a drunken state):



Thankfully, I've got some talented friends who graphically redesign my lemons into lemonade:



I apologize in advance.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-19T23:53:15-08:00
My name is Benel Germosen. I am a unemployed waste of time. 

Professional unemployed waste of time.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-20T09:45:08-08:00
Hi. I'm Tobey. 36 years old and currently a college student working on a multimedia degree, debating a change to a computer science degree because I find programming to be something I'm much more interested in. Comic book fan and part-time writer as well, currently working on my first script (which I'll eventually get done after school stops, hopefully).

I'm not a big fan of having my picture taken, but this is one I took with my laptop because people bitched about not knowing what I look like.




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-20T09:52:52-08:00
Kristoffer/Stoffer, 25 years of fun from Copenhagen, Denmark.
I'm a projectmanager of culture and chaos.
Work with youth democracy at a local youth house, lobbying for the young in Copenhagen.
Use free time on LARP, urban exploration, comics, internet crack and more projects.

Not always wearing only pastries and fake teeth.



Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-20T16:00:06-08:00
Pablo Díaz, 20 year-old college student, pop culture junkie and all around Warren Ellis fan. I'm afraid I don't have a picture at the moment.

EDIT: Alright, here's a crappy cellphone picture from a few minutes ago:




Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-20T16:08:31-08:00


Matt Weber, PhD student in mind-reading and supercooled magnetism ("cognitive neuroscience" to the proles), not-quite-unpublished writer, reflexive joiner of Warren Ellis-driven online communities. I am probably not the only person on these boards who has appeared in an anthology with WE, but I'm prepared to milk it for a lot more than it's worth.

mjw


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-20T16:15:28-08:00
I'm Sean Archer (currently being held out of the top Google listings for my name by that shite John Travolta movie where he switched faces with Nick Cage, and rather bitter about that thank you)

Here's me with a cat that is now dead, but at the time was the only cat I knew of that would gladly sit on your shoulder for hours at a time.  Miss that cat.




I sing, with a vocal group:  Stripped - Progressive Jazz Vocal Band
I art, by myself:   Sullied Reputation
I blog:  All Hopped Up On Goofballs
I sell shit that I made/painted:   ChilledMonkeyBrains


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-20T16:17:31-08:00
Hello people - Steve here. 35 yr old graphic designer living in Cambridge, UK but originally from the northern wastelands.
A fanboy of Warrens since the Lazarus days and longtime receiver of the unhinged messages from the ether (Bad Signal), I thought I should finally join in. Lover of all things new and interesting and rabid consumer of info - sometimes this hinders progress rather than helps.

Me 10mins ago looking tired...



Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-20T16:58:27-08:00
Brian R. Salazar. Please call me Sal. Podcaster and amateur smart-ass.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-20T17:24:57-08:00


Chris, from the UK. Born in Grays a long time ago, now living in Cambridge. I make some of the little bits that go to make up television sports programmes. I hate my job, but I have a family to support.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-20T19:19:39-08:00
Martin j DeKay AKA Jimmy




Struggling Writer/Artist type. Comic Book Hustler. Frequently whoring myself out for work in comics and whoring other peoples comic work out. I damn near live in the comic shop I work at as the Asst. Manager six days a week. Good thing too, as frankly I've been reading comics since I was four and I really don't know how to do anything else.

http://martinjdekay.livejournal.com/
http://www.blackcat-comics.com/


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-20T21:15:56-08:00
I am now and always have been nobody, people call me Dewayne.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-20T22:36:32-08:00
My name is Sarah. 
I am a 21 year old narcissist, painter, digital editor, and temp. 

I live in Berkeley, California with the only two animals in the world more cold blooded than me: a Uromastyx lizard and a video game producer. 

this is them:


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-20T23:47:56-08:00
Name's Dina, New Yorker by birth, Angeleno by way of a job transfer this past summer.  I spread evil for a living (aka sell celebrity pictures to magazines), and spend free time defending my love of comics.

I look like this:

...but only when you're looking at the girl in the middle.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-21T05:24:56-08:00
@Ninjet  Oooh!  That's a rather numerically aesthetic birthdate.  Very nice.


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-21T06:52:49-08:00
Hello. I'm Cody, dead-eyed layabout. I'm 22 years old and live in New Jersey.

This are me:



Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-21T07:08:44-08:00
Hi, I'm Phill Sea. 
Well, Sea is the sound of the first letter of my last name. 
I'm supposed to be working, writing procedural manuals for the free audio software 'Audacity' , but frankly, I don't want to be a grown up today, so I'm subtracting that out of me just enough to futz about on forums and write not-procedurals 
(per se.)

At the request of a delightful young woman, there are pictures of me online at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eight_blocks/

For a posted image, though, we'll go with:


I joined Whitechapel a few days ago due to the 'shagpunk' thread and have been pleased otherwise.

Cordially yours,
Phill


Introduce Yourselves
2008-01-21T07:48:08-08:00
Florent, 28, french, history teacher wannabe, books and movies addict, who dreams to make a trip to Iceland someday..