My artistic influences in a grid by Zak Zych
1st row: Buckminster Fuller; my dad holding me and our grandmother’s dog Django; my mom with my sister
2nd row: One of my earliest drawing of two boxers; Me and my sister; One of my earliest drawing of a T-Rex; a painting of a T-Rex by Rudolph Zallinger; E. E. Cummings; a poem by E. E. Cummings; cover art from the Tea for the Tillerman album by Cat Stevens; a frame from the Master of Kung Fu comic book by Paul Gulacy: self portrait by Vincent van Gogh
3rd row: Simon & Garfunkel; Albert Einstein; director of our Jr high school Rich Vejvoda; classmate Brenna Oberman, Samuel Beckett; James Joyce, cover art from “I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison by Leo and Diane Dillon; Man-Thing and Howard the Duck by Steve Gerber and Val Mayerik; sage advice from Jim Starlin from the pages of Warlock; Neil Young
4th row: Janis Joplin; the song “O Lucky Man!” by Alan Price; movie posters for “O Lucky Man!”, Elvira Madigan, The Ruling Class and They Might Be Giants; cover art for Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett; Rich Vejvoda as King Lear; XTC; comedian Lenny Bruce; science fiction writer Alfred Bester; Joe Vetrone as Macbeth; a painting by Amedeo Modigliani
5th row: cover art for the play Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco; Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss; one of my loneliness drawings from age 12 or 13; Zak Zych performing as the fool in William Shakespeare's King Lear; F. Scott Fitzgerald, opening quote from “On Moral Fiction” by John Gardner; Nikolai Gogol; co-director of the Satellite School Toni Cardamonw; Walt Whitman; quote from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman; animator Caroline Leaf; the Satellite School production of Every Soul’s A Circus; South African novelist Alan Paton; writer John Gardner; Billie Holiday and a piece of wisdom from one of her songs; Berlin Alexanderplatz by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
6th row: Ernest Hemingway; painting by Pablo Picasso; Kate Bush; Jetta and Maurits Cornelis Escher; Charlie Chaplin; Fyodor Dostoevsky; cover art and quote from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet; cover art for ”The Persistence of Vision" short story collection by Jon Varley
1st row: Buckminster Fuller; my dad holding me and our grandmother’s dog Django; my mom with my sister
2nd row: One of my earliest drawing of two boxers; Me and my sister; One of my earliest drawing of a T-Rex; a painting of a T-Rex by Rudolph Zallinger; E. E. Cummings; a poem by E. E. Cummings; cover art from the Tea for the Tillerman album by Cat Stevens; a frame from the Master of Kung Fu comic book by Paul Gulacy: self portrait by Vincent van Gogh
3rd row: Simon & Garfunkel; Albert Einstein; director of our Jr high school Rich Vejvoda; classmate Brenna Oberman, Samuel Beckett; James Joyce, cover art from “I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison by Leo and Diane Dillon; Man-Thing and Howard the Duck by Steve Gerber and Val Mayerik; sage advice from Jim Starlin from the pages of Warlock; Neil Young
4th row: Janis Joplin; the song “O Lucky Man!” by Alan Price; movie posters for “O Lucky Man!”, Elvira Madigan, The Ruling Class and They Might Be Giants; cover art for Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett; Rich Vejvoda as King Lear; XTC; comedian Lenny Bruce; science fiction writer Alfred Bester; Joe Vetrone as Macbeth; a painting by Amedeo Modigliani
5th row: cover art for the play Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco; Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss; one of my loneliness drawings from age 12 or 13; Zak Zych performing as the fool in William Shakespeare's King Lear; F. Scott Fitzgerald, opening quote from “On Moral Fiction” by John Gardner; Nikolai Gogol; co-director of the Satellite School Toni Cardamonw; Walt Whitman; quote from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman; animator Caroline Leaf; the Satellite School production of Every Soul’s A Circus; South African novelist Alan Paton; writer John Gardner; Billie Holiday and a piece of wisdom from one of her songs; Berlin Alexanderplatz by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
6th row: Ernest Hemingway; painting by Pablo Picasso; Kate Bush; Jetta and Maurits Cornelis Escher; Charlie Chaplin; Fyodor Dostoevsky; cover art and quote from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet; cover art for ”The Persistence of Vision" short story collection by Jon Varley
