I'm not really sure if others who create are have the same early influences as myself, but I suspect that is the case. However, often when I share my early influences with those "serious" artists, I'm greeted with blank stares, expressions of surprise, either real or feigned, and sometimes outright contempt. I guess it's because I never really knew much about classical art until I was well into adulthood. One of my very early infulences was a magazine all about cinematic monsters. I decided to look it up on the net and while I think it went out of business for some time, it seems it has risen from the dead. How appropriate.

                                           

                                                                            Famous Monsters of Film Land