Name:  Ryan Heshka
Location: Vancouver, B.C., Canada
DOB:  Sept. 22, 1970
Profession/Primary Skill: Illustration/art
Preferred Medium: Gouache, Acrylic/collage
Your URL:.www.ryanheshka.com

***Inspirations:
Favorite Music/Bands: Old jazz and 1930's music (in particular Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith), The Pixies, White Stripes, electronica, classic film soundtracks (esp. "Bride of Frankenstein" by Franz Waxman)
Favorite Comic Artists:  Chester Gould, Bill Everett, Jack Kirby, Lou Fine, E.C. Segar, Bob Kane, Joe Shuster, Alex Schomburg, Basil Wolverton, Alex Raymond, Carl Burgos
Favorite non-Comic Artists: Frank R. Paul, H.J. Ward, Norman Saunders, Marcel Dzama, Neo Rauch, Christian Northeast, the Clayton Brothers, Mark Ryden, Camille Rose Garcia, John Vassos
Other inspirations:pulp magazines, old advertising, old radio shows, graphic design, industrial design
Favorite Cartoons/Comic-books: any cartoons by the Van Bueren studio, pre-1935 Disney cartoons, Golden Age comics from Marvel, Fox Publications or Centaur Publications
Favorite Linkswww.roqlarue.com, www.blabworld.com