Kevin Pyle
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | author/illustrator |
| Introduction | Graphic novelist (Katman and Blindspot) and creator of "docu-comics" (Prison Town and Lab U.S.A.) and occasional teacher. |
| Interests | Books, comics, art, music and ruins. Searching for stories that resonate. Teaching. |
| Favorite movies | 400 Blows, 8 1/2, Rashomon, Ikiru, Touch of Evil, The Third Man, Citizen Kane, Glen Garry Glen Ross, Momento, Eternal Sunshine on A Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Raging Bull, Spirited Away, The Castle in the Sky, Brazil, Blade Runner, A Simple Plan, Pan's Labyrinth, The Lives of Others, Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, Amores Perro, City of God, Rear Window, Amelie, The Battle of Algiers, The Trial, Elephant Man, Eraser Head, Blue Velvet. |
| Favorite music | 70's punk: Wire, Gang of Four, the Fall etc. Jazz: the 3 M's: Miles, Monk and Mingus (and so much more) Recent favs: M.I.A., Muslim Gauze, FC Kahuna, Royksop, Lemon Jelly, Deerhoof, Art Brut, The Hives, Artic Monkeys, Green Day, The Rapture and all that post punk pop, Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, Elf Power, Sleater Kinney, Le Tigre, The Amps, The Go Team!, Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah, Gogol Bordello, DeVotchka, Konono No.1, Anything on Sublime Frequencies label, The Hungry March Band, Balkan Beat Box, The Flaming Lips, Medeski, Martin and Wood, Charlie Hunter. |
| Favorite books | Never Let Me Go by Kuo Ishiguro, Kafka On the Shore, Wind Up Bird Chronicle and anything by Haruki Murakami, Notes for a War Story by Gipi, Jimbo by Gary Panter, Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban, Brief Encounters with Che Guevera by Ben Fountian, Pastoralia and anything by George Saunders, anything by Joe Sacco, God Lives in St. Petersburg by Tom Bissel, Snow by Orhan Pamuk, 5 is the Perfect Number by Igort, Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone, White Noise by Don DeLillo, Bend Sinister by Nabakov, anything by W.G. Sebald. Could go on and on |