Gender	Male
Industry	Arts
Location	New York, United States
Introduction	Graphic artist, writer, avant musician. Illustration clients include: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Boston Globe, American Lawyer, USPS, Audubon, Nickelodeon, Women's Wear Daily, Smithsonian, Consumer Reports, Washington Post, Princeton Alumni Weekly, Corporate Counsel, Scholastic. My band is JD King & The Coachmen. We have two albums out on Ecstatic Peace. I'm currently shopping around my novel, The Sound of the Shadows, which, along with many of my short stories, can be found on the site, Splice Today.
Interests	Felines, Classical, Jazz, Novels, Visual Arts, Mods, Cinema, Cycling, Hiking, Guitars, MINI Coopers, Christianity, Postwar-era, Neo-Ultra, Paleo-Crypto, Conservation, etc.
Favorite movies	How Green Was My Valley, Turn the Key Softly, La Strada, La Dolce Vita, Rabbit's Moon, All About Eve, Sabrina, Roman Holiday, Sunset Boulevard, The Magnificent Ambersons, A Touch of Evil, The Trial, Psycho, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, The Birds, Laura, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, The Bank Dick, The Flying Deuces, Seven Samurai, Knife in the Water, Triumph of the Will, Pickup on South Street, Nightfall, Scandal Sheet, The Naked Kiss, Death in Small Doses, Shane, Journey to Italy, The Bicycle Thief, East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, The Young Savages, Come Back Little Sheba, Splendor in the Grass, Peyton Place, The 400 Blows, A Taste of Honey, The Third Man, Dirty Harry, Play Misty for Me, Breakfast at Tiffany's, You're a Big Boy Now, The Panic in Needle Park, Carnival of Souls, The Sleeping Tiger, Pushover, The Naked City, The Asphalt Jungle, Tammy and the Millionaire, Fourteen Hours, The Dark Mirror, Lolita, The World of Henry Orient, Persona, Breathless, The Piano Teacher, L'Atalante, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, Fantasia, Song of the South, Annette, The Moon-Spinners, Gone With the Wind, Ninotchka, Born Free, Casablanca, To Have and Have Not, The Maltese Falcon, Sullivan's Travels, Grand Illusion, The Bells of St Mary's, Annie Hall, etc.
Favorite music	The Carpenters, Lee Wiley, Sauter-Finegan, The Paris Sisters, JS Bach, The Shadows, Singers Unlimited, Chris Connor, The Neon Philharmonic, Antonín Dvořák, Patti Page, Pet Sounds, Richard Wagner, Beverly Kenney, Beatles '65, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Johann Strauss II, Stephen Foster, Hildegarde, Aaron Copland, The Four Freshmen, Laura Nyro, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Richard Strauss, Jackie & Roy, Ludwig van Beethoven, Benjamin Britten, Andrés Segovia, The Fleetwoods, Chad & Jeremy, Igor Stravinsky, Erik Satie, Maurice Ravel, Ricky Nelson, Morton Feldman, Joaquín Rodrigo, Richard Rodgers, The Jam, Peter & Gordon, Stereolab, Paul Desmond, June Christy, Johannes Brahms, Cole Porter, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The Cyrkle, etc.
Favorite books	Brideshead Revisited, Lucky Jim, I Want it Now, Girl 20, Jake's Thing, Stanley and the Women, Other Voices Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Selected Writings of Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich, Rabbit at Rest, The Witches of Eastwick, S, A Month of Sundays, Goodbye Columbus, Play It As It Lays, A Book of Common Prayer, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, A Year of Magical Thinking, The Killer Inside Me, The Thurber Carnival, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Moviegoer, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Rally Round the Flag Boys, The Human Comedy, Appointment in Samarra, A Rage to Live, The Ewings, Sermons and Soda-Water, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Razor's Edge, Lolita, Ada, Herzog, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, John & Mary, Laura, Dubliners, A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, A Moveable Feast, The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, Miss Lonelyhearts, A Cool Million, The Day of the Locust, Revolutionary Road, The Easter Parade, Blackboard Jungle, Savage Streets, The Desperate Hours, The Bell Jar, The Price of Salt, The Blunderer, This Sweet Sickness, Deep Waters, My Antonia, The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, Tortilla Flats, Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre, Our Man in Havana, Chocolate Days Popsicle Weeks, Salvage, Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, Candide, Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, The Sterile Cuckoo, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, This Boy's Life, Great Expectations, The Big Sky, Song of the Silent Snow, Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn, Malcolm, The Nephew, Animal Farm, Bert Breen's Barn, Little House on the Prairie, Go Set a Watchman, Lord of the Flies, Winnie the Pooh, Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Ordinary People, Auntie Mame, The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll, God and Man at Yale, The Unmaking of a Mayor, The Jeweler's Eye, etc.