So, I've decided to try the Influence Map meme out, for popular demand. Needless to say this was pretty difficult to work with - picking out particular artists here and some I know as friends wouldn't be an easy enough task. Generally, if you can draw or do things I can't - I very much hold you in high regard, especially if in tandem you can teach me to do that. Even if my front page comes off as being a pompous jerk, there's still some insight there.

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Disney's Gargoyles is included because, quite frankly, I think it may have been the only show on the block Disney had at the time that I enjoyed most. Bonkers was okay too, but Gargoyles was something you could look at and confirm that Disney didn't always need talking mice and goofy dogs to sell a story. It lasted long well after it's prime into comicbook form, and I thought the well-explained, well-implied universe and mystiscism was what had me hooked.

The Carmen Sandiego cartoon by DiC and the game show on PBS will always be my definite favorites. I'm kinda bummed that I never played most of her games (I sucked at them), but the cartoon really made Carmen sexy as well as intelligent enough to run laps amongst the most skilled players and detectives in the world. And who can forget the catchy accapella music from the game show? :3 I've always liked the villainous anti-hero, or villains in general. Heroes are cut and dry these days. She's the inspiration to my Patrick, but oh, there's more...

PBS Mystery was a good series that ran on, well, PBS, back when me and my mom and sis used to live in San Jose. I didn't have cable until much later when I was a teenager, but back then we survived wonderfully on public television stations -- too many fun memories! PBS Mystery had everything from allure and curiosity and well-written endeavors, some primarily from the BBC. I don't think I'll ever not forget the classic animated sequence intro... xD Creepy enough to be awesome.


As a kid, I used to think Toons were real, lol. That sense of imagination has to have been around for everyone else for sure. Ever remember walking up to a manhole and calling out for Donatello and company to come out with Master Splinter? Who Framed Roger Rabbit appeared late night on TV [and the previous week was Ghostbusters!] on those late night Saturday movie night blocks and I watched the whole thing, stayed up late. There's so much clever use of interactivity and the writing, feeling of a good mystery made this worth it. I don't speak a lot about this movie anymore, but rest ssured, it's a classic in my book.


Although the picture i chose is of the video game, I honestly don't like the WWF Attitude video game by Acclaim. xD It's shit. However as a kid growing up, I can say to you that regardless of what you may think about WWF's 'Trash TV' -- the sex jokes, the weapons, the blood, the boobs, the devil-may-care attitude of the World Wrestling Entertainment's BEST time on telelvision... I think that was WWE's ever best time to shine. Ever. I frankly don't give a flying fuck about John Cena, PG-TV, watered down violence and bad scripts and bland wrestlers in today's new TV. Wrestling is like the Simpsons - it's best years were and will be the 90's.


Kevin Smith... you and your Jay and Silent Bob, your Dogma, your Randall and Zacki and Mimi Make a Porno, that weirdass perverted clown at the end of your film credits. I don't know why, but your films are crafted with enough realism writing that feels close to home to me. That's pretty much how quirky my times recollections were for me. Crazy, sad, strange times.


Say what you will, but Cool World is a guilty pleasure of mine. An 'animated horror' was last seen being done very well on Tales from the Crypt, why couldn't they have let Ralpha Bakshi do his thing over at Paramount? At least we all left with thoughts of Holli Would, the next best thing since Jessica Rabbit, but I have to admire Bakshi's effort to just go along with it. Risk is apart of the game if you want to sit in that chair, and he might not have liked it, it's the adversity to just have to suck it up that I liked the most. Exactly what I'm doing with KUWT: people may not like it, or me, the fact that I'm doing it, but I'm still gonna do what I keep doing.


Matt Stone and Trey Parker - did you know these guys finish most of their episodes at the very last minute, and they still attract and audience for South Park? Impressive. Sadly, I think it's my very own habbit of doing that; feeling so unprepared for the next thing to happen that my stuff happens on the fly. It's probably not in my best interest to follow that kind of work ethic, but still, it's the fact of pumping out your overall best on the fly that I admire.


Without the manga or anime Lupin III, we'd have no KUWT. Lupin III takes the Arsene Lupin stories and put them in a modern (or then-modern, depending what you check out) situation with all sorts of zany, 'FUCK THE POLICE' action. The absurd style of Monkey Punch changes considerably as do in the shows, and this, my friends, is the exact and precise influence over KUWT. Patrick's sex lust, ability to craft amazing heists, and still coming out on top - man, Pat owes Lupin something. It's for that reason I simply just can't get into Sherlock Holmes or Basil the Great Mouse Detective at all... they're too clean-cut, too dry, too boring. Lupin gives you a party and everyone's invited!