Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Aug 29, 2015 20:27:08 GMT -5
Hello folks,
I'm Christian, 38, hailing from Paris, now living in the forest on an Island outside of Stockholm in Sweden. I used to work in a videostore, as a spindoctor writing speaches for politicians, copywriter for magazines, but in the past 12 years, I've mostly worked with my other passion aside from comics, music. SO i've been producing, DJing (radio and clubs), writing about it, selling it, releasing it, but mostly performing live around the world with my band which I just quit . So I'm taking a break on most things, starting a new label and new musical projects , building on my previously aquired profile. I'm also taking care of my mom.
So I have thousands of kids, aproximatly 12000, all of the shiny vinyl kind. I Buy new ones almost every day, cheap stuff to seriously expensive records, only wax, with maybe a few cassette exceptions. I'm mostly interested in jazz/free jazz, modern classical/experimental electronics, psychedelic folk, , dub, 88-93 indie, boogie, post punk, "industrial", house, techno, Cajun... I guess just about anything and spend an average of an hour each day listening online to new releases and a couple others to my owns if not more.
Comics came to me late, or did they? Well, I used to get bandes dessinées from the local library as often as I could around 6 years old. I bought some US comics translations mostly during summer holiday, but t wasn't until I discovered an anthology that published early Sandman, Hellblazer, Doom Patrol, Shade The Changing Man and some Swampy that I went nuts for it, sold all my french traditionnal stuff one week end and started to hit the LCS every week since then, 23-24 years ago. I don't follow series or characters, just the writers and artists, which means my collection (around 13000 floppies) spreads from the early 50ies (EC) to current days, with an early focus on Moore, Gaiman, Milligan, Whrightson, Jeff Jones, Corben, Frazetta, Alex Toth, Alex Nino, Jorge Zaffino, Ted McKeever, and quickly went on to embrace Jim Woodring, Dave Cooper, Hernandez Bros, Seth Ficher, Bagge, Wolverton, etc... Now I'm very happy with Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka, Michael Deforge, John Arcudi, and countless others.
My old parisian LCS gets weekly orders from me, which I tend to pick up every 4-5 months when I get a gig there. I also order online from the US, buy on ebay, and as I travel often for my work (live music gigs), I get to check many different comic shops (Toronto being my current favorite town for digging).
I also watch an unhealthy dose of movies and series an play boardgames with my friend and closest neighbour severeal times a week (he's a professional musician as well, currently sitting right by me). Oh and I stream online a good amount of football (soccer?), following my fave team of Lyon in the french league, through Wifi in the forest, what a wonderful world! Spent most summe so far doing all that, swimming and getting blueberries and mushroom from the forest, fishing from the sea in the evening. Lingonberry just started!
I guess that was thorough enough
I'm Christian, 38, hailing from Paris, now living in the forest on an Island outside of Stockholm in Sweden. I used to work in a videostore, as a spindoctor writing speaches for politicians, copywriter for magazines, but in the past 12 years, I've mostly worked with my other passion aside from comics, music. SO i've been producing, DJing (radio and clubs), writing about it, selling it, releasing it, but mostly performing live around the world with my band which I just quit . So I'm taking a break on most things, starting a new label and new musical projects , building on my previously aquired profile. I'm also taking care of my mom.
So I have thousands of kids, aproximatly 12000, all of the shiny vinyl kind. I Buy new ones almost every day, cheap stuff to seriously expensive records, only wax, with maybe a few cassette exceptions. I'm mostly interested in jazz/free jazz, modern classical/experimental electronics, psychedelic folk, , dub, 88-93 indie, boogie, post punk, "industrial", house, techno, Cajun... I guess just about anything and spend an average of an hour each day listening online to new releases and a couple others to my owns if not more.
Comics came to me late, or did they? Well, I used to get bandes dessinées from the local library as often as I could around 6 years old. I bought some US comics translations mostly during summer holiday, but t wasn't until I discovered an anthology that published early Sandman, Hellblazer, Doom Patrol, Shade The Changing Man and some Swampy that I went nuts for it, sold all my french traditionnal stuff one week end and started to hit the LCS every week since then, 23-24 years ago. I don't follow series or characters, just the writers and artists, which means my collection (around 13000 floppies) spreads from the early 50ies (EC) to current days, with an early focus on Moore, Gaiman, Milligan, Whrightson, Jeff Jones, Corben, Frazetta, Alex Toth, Alex Nino, Jorge Zaffino, Ted McKeever, and quickly went on to embrace Jim Woodring, Dave Cooper, Hernandez Bros, Seth Ficher, Bagge, Wolverton, etc... Now I'm very happy with Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka, Michael Deforge, John Arcudi, and countless others.
My old parisian LCS gets weekly orders from me, which I tend to pick up every 4-5 months when I get a gig there. I also order online from the US, buy on ebay, and as I travel often for my work (live music gigs), I get to check many different comic shops (Toronto being my current favorite town for digging).
I also watch an unhealthy dose of movies and series an play boardgames with my friend and closest neighbour severeal times a week (he's a professional musician as well, currently sitting right by me). Oh and I stream online a good amount of football (soccer?), following my fave team of Lyon in the french league, through Wifi in the forest, what a wonderful world! Spent most summe so far doing all that, swimming and getting blueberries and mushroom from the forest, fishing from the sea in the evening. Lingonberry just started!
I guess that was thorough enough
