It's not that I am - or have ever been - anywhere near smart enough to have some sort of grand design in my creative life. I didn't pay much attention in school, choosing instead to bury my face in books and comics of my own fancy.
Off the top of my head: The Cold Six Thousand, Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, Brown's Requiem, Under the Banner of Heaven, Akira, The Dark Knight Returns, Lord of the Flies, Choirboys, Sin City, Watchmen, Fight Club, Haunted, Survivor, The Boys, DMZ, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Kingdom Come, Origin, Sin City, The Red Star, the Heir to the Empire Trilogy, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Jarhead, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, My War Gone By I Miss it So and Flags of our Fathers.
Favorite Authors
James Ellroy, Neal Stephenson, John Krakauer, Chuck Palahniuk, Garth Ennis, Brian Wood, Stan Lee, Christian Gossett, Frank Miller, Anthony Swofford, and Jeff Lindsay.
What I'm Reading
The first collected volume of Preacher, and DMZ volume seven.