MY INFLUENCE MAP

I've been wanting to do one of these for awhile now, and finally sat down to take the time to do it. There's plenty more influences that I couldn't fit in, but these are the core.

From top to bottom, left to right, in no particular order...

1. DAVID CATROW--Children's book illustrator (The Boy Who Looked Like Abe Lincoln) and editorial cartoonist
2. SERGIO ARAGONES--Creator of Groo the Wanderer
3. POPEYE--My favorite cartoon character of all time
4. TIM BURTON--Director of "Beetlejuice", former animator
5. DON BLUTH--Animation director for Secret of Nimh
6. JAY WARD PRODUCTIONS--Producers of Rocky and Bullwinkle
7. MIKE MIGNOLA--Creator of Hellboy
8. TWICE UPON A TIME--One of my favorite animated films
9. BILL MELENDEZ--Director of the original Peanuts specials and films, voice of Snoopy and Woodstock
10. CHARLES SCHULZ--Creator of Peanuts
11. STEPHEN DESTEFANO--Cartoonist, co-creator of 'Mazing Man
12. RICHARD WILLIAMS--Animation director, "The Thief and the Cobbler", animation for "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"
13. JIM HENSON--Creator of the Muppets, my all-time hero
14. VAUGHN BODE--Creator of underground comic Cheech Wizard
15. GAHAN WILSON--Macabre cartoonist of Playboy
16. RALPH BAKSHI--Animation director, "Wizards"
17. JOHNNY HART--Creator of comic strip BC
18. CHRIS SANDERS--Animation director "Lilo and Stitch"
19. KYLE BAKER--Comic book artist, commercial artist (The Bakers)
20. BRIAN FROUD--Fantasy illustrator (The Dark Crystal)
21. GLEN KEANE--Animator (Beauty and the Beast)
22. AL HIRSCHFELD--Theatrical caricaturist
23. WALT KELLY--Creator of comic strip pogo
24. BRAD BIRD--Animation director (The Incredibles)
25. DIK BROWNE--Creator of comic strip Hagar the Horrible
26. HANNA-BARBERA STUDIO (Scooby Doo)
27. CHUCK JONES--Animation director (Looney Tunes)
28. NELVANA ANIMATION STUDIO (Rock & Rule)
29. JIM BORGMAN--Editorial cartoonist, co-creator of comic strip Zits
30. ERIC GOLDBERG--Animator (Aladdin)