Jim Thompson
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Law |
| Occupation | Attorney and Academic |
| Location | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Introduction | I am a lawyer and an academic (a double black mark to some). I taught film/genre theory for Duke University for 15 years, but managed to sneak in the study of comics every chance I had. More importantly, I READ comics - old ones, new ones, American and foreign, super hero and experimental. I currently co-moderate the Comic Book Historians Facebook Group in between divorcing clients and professoring to a single student - my four year old. |
| Interests | film, politics, comics, art, Westerns, Noir, Hong Kong cinema, Science-Fiction in all mediums, early comic strips, televison, anime, genre, and all things that have little to do with real people. |
| Favorite movies | The films of Fuller, Ulmer, Whale, Lang, Hitchcock, Bava, Jack Arnold, Carpenter, Tarrentino, the Coen Brothers, Wes Anderson, Romero, Godard, Jane Campion, Hawks, Ford, Lynch, Michael Powell, Bunuel, Pedro Almodovar, Robert Altman, Renoir, Welles,Akira Kurosawa, Anthony Mann, Wilder, Sturges, Ray Harryhausen, Peckinpah and Sergio Leone. |
| Favorite music | Johnny Cash, Dylan, Sinatra, Tom Waits, Joplin, Public Enemy, The Beatles, White Stripes, Sex Pistols, They Might Be Giants, Gershwin, Ben Folds, X, Lou Reed, Phil Ochs, the Ramones, Zappa |
| Favorite books | The collected works of Philip K. Dick, Howard Zinn, E.L. Doctorow (especially Ragtime), John Updike, Richard Matheson, Paul Auster, Michael Chabon, Larry McMurtry, Hunter S. Thompson, Jim Thompson (the other one), Jonathan Franzen (at least The Corrections) DeLillo, Nick Hornby, Dave Eggers, All writers with the last name Burroughs, Paul Ackroyd, Mark Twain, Carolyn See, David Foster Wallace,James Ellroy and Dashiel Hammet, Windsor McCay, Charles Schultz, Will Eisner, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, and any comic written by Alan Moore or Grant Morrison. |
Unlike a dog, how can a turtle ever be naked?
when he comes out of his shell?