BillRiling
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Story Artist |
| Location | California, United States |
| Introduction | Born and raised in Philadelphia, I am currently employed as a Feature Animation Storyboard Artist but my first passion was to do a comic strip. My influences are relegated mostly to the comics page and Mad Magazine. Artists from Sergio Aragones, Harvey Kurtzman, Charles Schulz, Brant Parker and Johnny Hart, Bill Watterson, Gary Larson, Milton Caniff, Walt Kelly, Bill Peet, Kevin Fagan, Mike Peters, Tony Auth, Jeff MacNelley, Brian Basset, Tom Armstrong, Hal Foster, Todd Kurosawa, Frank Ridgeway, Mort Walker, Paul Coker, Marty Murphy, Jim Davis, James Thurber, Mell Lazarus, Don Dougherty, Bob Thaves, Bob Foster, Tim Downs, Berke Breathed, Don Martin, Stan Sakai, Jack Davis, George Booth, Charles Barsotti, Fontaine Fox, the list goes on. If I could draw or write half as well as they do I'd probably be working as a syndicated cartoonist. |
| Interests | Hockey, NFL Football, Fly Fishing, The cartoons in Playboy, The Civil War history, World War Two History, Science and Nature programs, Money and a good sandwich. |
| Favorite movies | It's a Wonderful Life, Casablanca, Three Days of the Condor, Little Big Man, The Godfather I & II, Robin Hood (with Erroyl Flynn), Captain Blood, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Outlaw Josey Wales, High Plains Drifter, Once Upon a time in the West, The Good the Bad and The Ugly, Dances With Wolves, Marathon Man, GoodFellas, Rocky, Gunga Din, Trading Places, Young Frankenstein, The Grapes of Wrath, The Third Man, The Producers (original), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Animal House, Caddyshack, The Pink Panther Movies (Peter Sellars), The Party, Patton, Full Metal Jacket, Parenthood, Toy Story, The Incredibles, Iron Giant and Ratatouille, The Departed, Raging Bull, Aliens, Superman, Spiderman 2, Predator, and only because I love Artie Lange...Beer League. |
| Favorite music | Bruce Springsteen, J. Geils, Rolling Stones, Vince Guaraldi, Motown, Green Day,Dave Mason, Led Zeppelin, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, CSN&Y, Dylan, Sinatra, Dean Martin, Glenn Miller, Beethoven, Cat Stevens, Bach, John Williams, Mozart, Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie, Crash Test Dummies, Moody Blues, Grant Parker and The Rumor, Elvis Costello, Elton John, The Hollies, War, Elo, Thin Lizzy, The Beatles |
| Favorite books | Sherlock Holmes, The Works of Charles Dickens, O. Henry Short Stories, Of Mice and Men, Catcher in the Rye, World According to Garp, Shadow Divers, Huckleberry Finn, Another Roadside Attraction, Still Life with Woodpecker, Hitchhiker's Guide, The God Delusion, Lord of the Flies, Masturbation for Dummies and any biography on Lincoln, Ben Franklin or Lewis and Clark |
Describe the sound of a moist waffle falling onto a hot griddle.
KASCHPLITZZZZZ! (apologies to Don Martin)