shane oakley
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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Illustrator, comic book artist, writer and obsessive compulsive |
| Location | Stoke Marshlands, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Worked on and off in the comics industry for over thirty years: writing and drawing for some of the BIG guys (DC and Dark Horse), and some of the microscopic like Caliber Press...no, I didn't make a penny either. Hate and love the biz with a passion. |
| Interests | Comics, noir, ignoring the phone, lurid pulps, myth, folklore, ghostly tales, animation, re-animation, black and white movies late at night and playing a guitar without a full set of strings. |
| Favorite movies | Dr. Phibes, City of Lost Children, If, The Beyond, Santa Sangre, The Life Aquatic, Quatermass and the Pit, Dellamorte Dellamore, Barbarella, Our Man Flint, Street Trash, The Tenant, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, The Mask of Satan, Captain Kronos, Dracula('58), Bride of Frankenstein, Videodrome, The Thing('51 and '82), It's a Wonderful Life, Amarcord, Dead of Night, Iron Giant, The Good The Bad and the Ugly, Suspiria, Phantasm, Groundhog Day, Angels With Dirty Faces, Yellow Submarine, I Drink Your Blood, zillions of others... |
| Favorite music | Ennio Morricone, Add N To(X), Joy Division, Mike Patton, The Cramps, John Barry, Goblin, Laibach, Duke Ellington, The Kinks, Tom Waits... |
| Favorite books | Eerie, Creepy, By Bizarre Hands, Frankenstein, 100 Bullets, Sin City, Criminal, The Demon (Kirby), Swamp Thing, Eightball, Love and Rockets, Parker, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, El Borbah, BPRD, Hellboy, The Spirit, Wind in the Willows, 1984, Clockwork Orange, Kim Newman, Ray Bradbury, Lovecraft, Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Moorcock, Poe. |