Stephen Bissette

• Age: 54
• Gender: Male
• Astrological Sign: Pisces
• Zodiac Year: Sheep
• Industry: Arts
• Occupation: Writer/editor/artist/cartoonist/teacher
• Location: Mountains of Madness : Vermont : United States

About Me

I'm a Native Vermonter who drew and wrote from a tender age and loved dinosaurs and monsters, none of which I've ever outgrown. I graduated in 1978 as a member of the first-ever class at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon & Graphic Art, Inc., entered the comics profession and carved out a career until my retirement from the field in 1999. I made (and left) my mark with SWAMP THING, TABOO, '1963,' and TYRANT, among others. As a writer, I've written for a variety of zines (including VIDEO WATCHDOG, DEEP RED, FANGORIA, etc.) and books (THE MONSTER BOOK: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, UNDERGROUND USA, etc.) amid occasional bouts of fiction (the Stoker Award winning novella ALIENS: TRIBES, short stories). My current pet project is GREEN MT CINEMA, dedicated to VT and New England films and filmmakers. I write constantly, draw occasionally, and now teach at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Jct., VT. I live with my wife Marjory, whom I love -- and I sure love my son Daniel and my daughter Maia, too.

The squish of mud between your toes; how would you live your life as a frog?

Quite blissfully, and far away from the roads, pretty much as I live now. Hmmm, wait, I AM a frog...

Interests

• Life; All things horrific; People; Comics; Cinema; Drawing; Writing; All things that live under rocks.

Favorite Movies

• The formative holy trinity was
• The Beast from 20000 Fathoms
• Them!
• and the Korda Brothers The Thief of Bagdad
• Then there's Mario Bava's Black Sunday
• the first film to terrify me hence it is beloved. Other faves: Anything by Ray Harryhausen
• Mario Bava
• Maya Deren
• Don Siegel
• Robert Aldrich and Sam Fuller
• Sergio Leone's The Good The Bad and the Ugly
• and Once Upon a Time in the West
• King Kong (1933 and 2005)
• George Romero's Dead quartet
• El Topo
• Eraserhead
• Fargo
• The Big Liebowski
• Existo
• and more than I can possibly name here.

Favorite Music

• Captain Beefheart
• Ennio Morricone
• Frank Zappa
• Bernard Herrman
• Brian Eno
• Tom Waites (for no man)
• Miles Davis
• Eric Dolphy
• Pere Ubu
• thousands of soundtracks
• and too many others to name!

Favorite Books

• Too many to name

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