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Artists
Ashley Wood. This guy is awesome!
Barry-Windsor Smith. Great artist, definately unique style.
Basil Gogos. A great early horror artist!
Bernie Wrightson. Awesome horror artwork.
Bill Sienkiewicz. A real inovator, brought a fine art surrealist style to comics and graphic novels.
Brian Bolland. Great comic artist. Cleanest linework I’ve ever seen.
Donato Giancola. This guy does fantastic realistic art.
Frank Frazetta. The master of fantasy artwork, and truly an inspiration.
H.R. Giger. A huge inspiration on underground art, the virtual inventor of biomechanics.
Jeffery Jones. Great artist who shared a studio in the ’70s with Michael Wm. Kaluta, Bernie Wightson, and Barry Windsor Smith. Frank Frazetta called him “the greatest living artist”
Jeremy Geddes. Nice style, and great guy whose art I was just recently turned onto.
John Harris. One of my biggest influences, this artist’s work has a depth and volume few rarely achieve. This is a link to his art dealer, it’s the only site he has unfortunately.
John Totleben. One of my all time favorite artists, and a huge influence on the way I draw.
M. W. Kaluta. Great artist, and nice guy. I’m a big Shadow fan, and this guy does the best rendition of him I’ve ever seen.
Authors
Ayn Rand. The biggest single influence on the way I think. An extremely important philosopher.
Clive Barker. His Books of Blood are amazing-filled with creative and goulish stories-you would make a mistake in not picking them up!
I haven’t read the rest of the Dune novels. I’m not sure I want to, but the first one, by Frank Herbert, is one of the best books I’ve ever read.
George Orwell. If you haven’t read 1984, you should kill yourself now!
H.P. Lovecraft. My single favorite writer. A genius with the word, and true inspiration for generations of horror writers to come.
John Steinbeck may not write the kind of fiction I normally read, but his style of telling a story is a huge influence on the way I write.
Neal Stephenson. I love this guys early cyberpunk work.
Neil Gaiman. i was always a fan of The sandman, but i think he really blossomed when he started writing horror novels.
Groundbreaking, and inpirational author, Philip K Dick.
Richard Matheson. Legendary horror author.
William Gibson. Creater of cyberpunk, and one of my early favorites!
Music Artists
All Else Failed. They only have a Myspace page, but the band is way too good to let pass. One of my all time favorites.
Trajically underrated death metal band BoltThrower, and one of my all time favorites.
From their heavier, more metallic early days, to their more rock, sarcastic current form, Clutch has always been an awesome band.
Converge. One of the first and best bands doing the chaotic/metal thing.
Corrosion of Conformity. They started out as a mediocre hardcore/thrash band, and became an awesome southern metal band.
Heavy, gloomy, and ahead of their time, this band put out some amazing records.
The bluesy singer of the Misfits, Sam Hain, and finally Danzig!
Spacoius and gloomy like Neurosis, but more nihilistic and personal. Dead and Gone was only around briefly, but they were an amazing band.
Short lived, but massively influential, this is still my favorite band.
Guitar master Chuck’s brilliant death metal band named simply Death.
Deftones. I don’t care what anyone says, this is an awesome metal band.
Sadly missed, this band was one of the first doing the heavy, dark metallic style. Members would go on to Martyr AD
Trajically underrated, and relatively unknown band. They were on Amphetamine Reptile back in the day. Thinking man’s metal-a distopian mindset, and abrasive indie rock, they were awesome live, and desereved far more. like their labelmates Helmet
This bands first few albums were both groundbreaking and amazing. Plenty of people have tried to copy them, but few have gotten it right.
Johnny Cash. If you don’t like the man in black, there is something wrong with you.
The best drug-rock band ever, Monster Magnent.
Obituary. Great death metal, sludge band.
If you don’t like Slayer, get the hell off my website!
Social Distortion. Rockabilly, punk, and rock’n'roll, all mixed together into great songs.
Suicidal Tendencies. Back in the day, this band was the shit! I own their first 5 albums!
The Unsane. One of my all-time favorite bands. Violence, noise, sludge, and controlled chaos all melted into one.
Today is the Day. Mind-fuck twisted metal, their album Temple of the Morning Star is a classic.
Turmoil. Great choatic/Deadguy influenced hardcore band.
Other
Dan Henk’s page on Deviant Art- They Will Kill Us
Five’s web site
Sponsors
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Tattoo Artists
Aaron Caine. Great artist, tattooist, and machine builder. His art is almost solely responsible for getting me into tattooing.
Bili Vegas. A good friend and upcoming artist-definitely check out this guys stuff!
Nobody does black and grey as smooth as Bob-and he’s the nicest guy you’ll meet in tattooing!
My current favorite black and grey artist, and an amazing painter as well, Carlos Torres!
Jay Wheeler. Awesome tattoo artist, great realism. His work was also part of the reason I first got into tattooing.
Jeff is blowin it up! Great style!
Monica. My late wife, killed in a hit and run. The site is long since down, but I miss her too much to remove it.
Nate does awesome color realism, and he’s a really nice guy to boot!
Nick Baxter. Nice guy, truly original style.
Friend of mine, and awesome horror tattoo artist Paul Acker
Good friend of mine, good tattoo artist, and fellow horror fan Ron!
Friend and good black and grey artist Scott Trerrotola
Steve Moore. This guy is amazing, check him out!
Timmy B. Also known as Chester the Molester! Check out his sweet stache. Oh yeah, and he’s a great tattoo artist too.
Tom Renshaw. Awesome realistic black and gray.
Not the Motley Crue drummer, but an awesome artist and friend of mine Tommy Lee, so we’ll let it slide. Check out his fine art as well as his tattoos, great stuff.
Tattoo Shops
My new shop in Philadelphia!