I've been painting since I was in third grade, and writing full novels since I was in fifth grade. I'm sure all that would be horrible now, but it was a start! I lived a fairly spartan existance on various army bases as a kid, subsisting on a heavy diet of comics and books. Alan Moore, HP Lovecraft, Neal Stephenson, Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, Anne Rice, and Frank Miller were all authors I followed voraciously.
At eighteen, I was a little rebellious punk rocker, and my super religious parents kicked me out of their, then moved to another country. After an eight month stint of ho more...