Data Sheet: Alex Ness

NAME: Alex Ness
BIRTHPLACE: Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, Methodist Hospital

AMBITIONS: To be a great poet, great writer, and a great father

TURN-ONS: Beauty

TURNOFFS: Ugliness

GREAT COMICS: Doom Patrol by Grant Morrison, Animal Man by Jamie Delano, Scout by Timothy Truman,

FAMILY LIFE: Beautiful wife, incredible son, two cats.

FAVORITE FOOD: Sushi, Irish Whiskey

WHAT I LIKE IN COMICS: Beautiful art, brilliant writing

WHAT I DISLIKE IN COMICS: Collectors who do not read, pin up minded art, writing for the lowest common denominator, Publishers who value regurgitation over new

FAVORITE CREATORS: Jack Kirby, Moebius, Timothy Truman, Grant Morrison, Mike Grell

FAVORITE MUSICIANS: Billy Corgan, Marvin Gaye, Joe Strummer

IDEAL EVENING: Sushi dinner, adult time with wife, and cuddles with kid and cats

FAVORITE MOVIES: Seven Samurai, Amadeus, Excalibur, Last Man Standing

FAVORITE WRITERS: Ernest Hemingway, Lord Dunsany, William Carlos Williams, Robert E. Howard, Yukio Mishima

FAVORITE GRAPHIC NOVELS: MAUS, FROM HELL, WILDERNESS, KINGS IN DISGUISE