Jeff Heermann

Paste-Up Artist

The Graphic Artists' Guild of America (GAG) won't have me. The Masons wouldn't let me polish their keystones. I'm barred from Kiwanis picnics, ice-cream socials and weenie roasts. For a time I numbered among the ranks of the Rudos (the first literary movement of the 21st Century) and have the black lucha libre mask to prove it.

Art (painting, pen-and-ink illustration, printmaking, digital tomfoolerly), 1950s pulp science fiction, Batman toys from the 1940s-1970s, Melmac kitchenware, skinny ties, black jeans, fake Beatniks, French symbolist poets, Victorian ghost stories, Daugerrotypes, neglected comic books and Pernod with water.

Down and Out in Paris & London, Titus Groan, The Stars My Destination, Paris Spleen, The Monk, A Scanner Darkly, The Pick-Up, You Can't Win, Dracula, Maldoror, Diary of a Nobody, Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Where I'm Calling From

Alphaville, La Dolce Vita, The Third Man, Pandora's Box, Nosferatu, La Jetee, Forbidden Planet, Repo Man, Le Samourai, Night of the Living Dead, Double Indemnity, Stranger Than Paradise, The Blue Dahlia, and all three of them Peter Jackson LOTR movies.

Most pre-British Invasion rock 'n' roll, most early country, most early punk (with the emphasis placed on techincal incompetence). Stuff like the Consumers, Swell Maps, Pagans, Gories, Jimmie Rodgers, Maddox Brothers & Rose, Crime, Germs, Ernest Tubb, Link Wray & the Raymen, Pretty Things, early Damned, Numbers, Seeds, pre-Rollins Black Flag, Metal Urbain, and weepy/wimpy guys like Scott Walker and Jacques Brel. I value enthusiasm over technical ability.

The Addams Family, Father Ted, Eastenders, Tom LeBries' Night Comfort Theater, Life on 45, the 1960s Star Trek, the 1960s Batman, History's Mysteries, Secrets of the Dead, and others. I used to be very into Captain Cosmic when appeared on KTVU in the 70s.