BongoDog
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | cartoonist/animator/designer |
| Location | Seattle, WA, United States |
| Introduction | I’ve been drawing and doodling since before I could crawl. One of my earliest memories is of laying on the shag carpet - tracing the likenesses of Mickey, Goofy and Donald onto bits of scrap paper from dad’s office. Like most children of the 70's, I was enamored with comic books, MAD magazine & Saturday morning cartoons and I’d gladly spend all day sketching my favorite characters from Planet of the Apes, The Lone Ranger and Batman (Adam West's Batman... I am THAT old!). Later, I began to develop my own characters based upon my favorite artists of the period: Don Martin, Sergio Aragones, and Shel Silverstein. Every day after school I would flip on the TV and bathe in the cathode wonder of Hanna Barbera, Fat Albert, Super Friends, Speed Racer, and vintage Popeye and Harvey Toons. I spent my teens and twenties chasing a career in rock & roll but after settling down and starting a family I have returned to my first love: cartoons! |
| Interests | music, film, art, literature, gadgets, travel, family |
| Favorite movies | anything from Hitchcock, Kubrik, Scorsese, Tarantino, Anderson, or PIXAR! |
| Favorite music | British Invasion, Beatles, Kinks, Zombies, Harry Nilsson, Lee Hazelwood, Stephen Malkmus, Andrew Bird, Beck, Wilco, Garage Rock, Vintage Country |
| Favorite books | Dharma Bums, Geek Love, Another Roadside Attraction, A Confederacy of Dunces, Martian Chronicles, Walden, and anything by Kurt Vonnegut, Shel Silverstein, David Sedaris, Gary Larson, Elmore Leonard |
For your birthday, your aunt gave you a maple syrup dispenser shaped like a rooster. Please write her a thank-you note:
Thank you Aunt Matilda for the lovely gift. Even though I am hypoglycemic and alektrophobic - I will truly always cherish this rooster shaped syrup dispenser. Thanks, really. You're too thoughtful.