Patrick Farley
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Patrick Sean Farley is a freelance illustrator and Web page designer working out of Portland, Oregon.
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[edit] Biography
Patrick Farley is the creator of comics under the anthology Electric Sheep Comix. Scott McCloud cites him as an early pioneer of the webcomics movement.[1] He is the author of a semi-autobiographical webcomics graphic novel The Guy I Almost Was and of several other Web based comics or stories, listed below.
In addition to the traditional strip format Farley has presented work in the infinite canvas mode peculiar to the more innovative web comics, and he has done many stories using 3D tools such as Poser and Bryce.
The Web Comics Examiner wrote a story about Farley's work in December 2004 titled "Patrick Farley, Apocalyptic Utopian".[2]
[edit] Electric Sheep Comix
Electric Sheep Comix is a Web-based anthology of Farley's work. The name was taken from the title of Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?". It was originally hosted at the domain e-sheep.com, but the domain registration lapsed, and after being offline for 2 years, the site was restarted in August 2009, at a new domain. [3]
One unusual project from this collection is Apocamon: The Final Judgement, a satirical, stylized presentation of the Book of Revelation in a graphic style similar to the Pokémon trading card game and a writing style similar to the comic book tracts of Jack T. Chick.
[edit] Works
As of August, 2009, only some works are available on the new site:
- Apocamon: The Final Judgement (2003, still in progress)
- Barracuda: The Scotty Zaccharine Story (2002)
- The Spiders (2001 - 2003, still in progress)
- Terrors of the Night (2000)
- The Guy I Almost Was (1998)
- The Jain's Death (1998)
- Overheard at the Rave (1998)
- Thanksgiving Special or, "How Nature's Turkey Came to Inhabit the Abandoned Industrial Park" (1998)
- Chrysalis Colossus (1998)
Others are available with a few gaps from the Internet Archive[4]
- Delta Thrives (2002, still in progress)
- Saturnalia (1995)
- Shapeshifter (2000)
- Rush Limbaugh Eats Everything (2000)
[edit] References
- ^ Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form (2000, ISBN 0-06-095350-0)
- ^ "Patrick Farley, Apocalyptic Utopian", Web Comics Examiner, December 2004, retrieved August, 2009.
- ^ electricsheepcomix.com, retrieved August 4, 2009
- ^ archive.org's Wayback Machine cache of the old e-sheep.com]
