Michael Mason

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Gender Male
Location North Carolina, United States
Introduction Illustrator
Interests Most everything - really!
Favorite Movies Any Jerry Lewis or Bob Hope film ever made. Pretty much all of Hitchcock's work. Any of the stuff by disneys 9 old men, hollywood 'classics' like Spartacus, El Cid, or Ben-hur. I also enjoy the old swashbuckler movies like Sinbad and Robin Hood. Big fan of Vincent Price (especially his villainous voice work in "The Great Mouse Detective"). Star Wars series, Indiana Jones series...once again just too much stuff I like.
Favorite Music Orchestrated, Jazz, Metal, 'Classic' Rock, Blues.
Favorite Books Tolkein, Kafka, C.S. Lewis, Hugo, Poe, Robert Jordan, Lovecraft, Hans C. Anderson, Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur C. Doyle, Orson Scott Card, C.J. Cherryh, (a lot of the old british plays)..too many to list. I have too broad of tastes in most things to claim any favorites but: A Few of My Artist Favorites: N.C. Wyeth, Harold Foster, Arthur Rackham, Frank Frazetta, Charles Vess, Michael Kaluta, Alex Raymond, Al Williamson, Jim Lee, Alfons Mucha, Any of the Hudson River, School artists, Franklin Booth, Norman Rockwell, William Stout, Mark Schultz, Wally Wood (all the old E.C. guys), Michael Whelan..the list goes on forever. Architecture: Arts and Crafts movement, Horta, Macintosh, Frank Lloyd Wright, Old Mayan, Old SE Asian, Castles and forts of Europe.