Meet Your GeekWeek Contributors: Richard Fairgray
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Jan 1 2010, 12:01 AM
What do you do when you fail at being a teacher? I became a drawer of (as my grandmother puts it) 'silly little pictures of dinosaurs'. I'm 24 years old, legally blind and lacking the physique for any kind of physical labour.
Writing
an introduction for yourself is sort of like writing a profile for a dating
site. Until now I’ve never done either
but if this goes well it may serve as both.
Hello, gentle listener, I’m Richard Fairgray. I fill my days co-writing and illustrating an
independent comic called Blastosaurus as
well as toiling away on about a dozen other projects. I live on the bottom of the world in a
country that has only five comic shops and enough geek culture to fill a small
novelty mug.
Reading
good comics is like getting into a particularly hot bath. You have to do it slowly or you’ll get burnt
and puffy and be a hideous mess forever.
I unfortunately am the living example of this puffy mess. In my first week of reading comics I was
given Sandman, Watchmen, Dark Knight
Returns, Transmetropolitan and Miracleman. When you start out like that it is nigh
impossible to find enjoyment in mainstream, modern titles. But I have persevered (well, retreated really)
and now I happily spend any free time I get reading collected volumes of Silver
Age DC.
As
I mentioned I am stuck on the arse end of the globe and my time is too precious
(time spent drawing dinosaurs) to me to spend it trying to stay ahead of the news. So instead I’m going to bring you reviews and
analysis of some nice old things and maybe some alternate readings of films I
have a particular distaste for (think anything involving anthropomorphic
animals/machines).
So
that’s me. I hope you enjoy my postings
and that you get to read my little book about a dinosaur who fights crime.
What do you do when you fail at being a teacher? I became a drawer of (as my grandmother puts it) 'silly little pictures of dinosaurs'. I'm 24 years old, legally blind and lacking the physique for any kind of physical labour.
Writing an introduction for yourself is sort of like writing a profile for a dating site. Until now I’ve never done either but if this goes well it may serve as both. Hello, gentle listener, I’m Richard Fairgray. I fill my days co-writing and illustrating an independent comic called Blastosaurus as well as toiling away on about a dozen other projects. I live on the bottom of the world in a country that has only five comic shops and enough geek culture to fill a small novelty mug.
Reading good comics is like getting into a particularly hot bath. You have to do it slowly or you’ll get burnt and puffy and be a hideous mess forever. I unfortunately am the living example of this puffy mess. In my first week of reading comics I was given Sandman, Watchmen, Dark Knight Returns, Transmetropolitan and Miracleman. When you start out like that it is nigh impossible to find enjoyment in mainstream, modern titles. But I have persevered (well, retreated really) and now I happily spend any free time I get reading collected volumes of Silver Age DC.
As I mentioned I am stuck on the arse end of the globe and my time is too precious (time spent drawing dinosaurs) to me to spend it trying to stay ahead of the news. So instead I’m going to bring you reviews and analysis of some nice old things and maybe some alternate readings of films I have a particular distaste for (think anything involving anthropomorphic animals/machines).
So that’s me. I hope you enjoy my postings and that you get to read my little book about a dinosaur who fights crime.
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