SOL: WHO is your favorite artist?
ADP: Andy Warhol. Lots of reasons but the main one in my case is he is the artist that makes you think that anybody could do art if they want to. Since I do not have what I consider to be any traditional skill as an artist, that is a good message.
SOL: I have a mug with the Campbells soup design, if you had one like it would you se it for your coffee, tea and whiskey in honor of Warhol?
ADP: What I would really like to get a hold of is a decent Warhol wig to wear out a club or party once in a while, but I have had no luck finding one. The only ones available are really cheap joke looking ones. The ones that he actually wore were all custom made for him from someone in Italy from what I read, and there is no in-between.
SOL: What is your favorite comic?
ADP: If anyone asks I always usually describe Cow and Ivana as a cross between Peanuts, Doonesbury, and Angriest Dog In the World (the David Lynch strip). All of which are favorites. I think I would be hard pressed to pick a single comic book.
SOL: When did you start getting into art? Was it drawing, painting, or doodles at first?
ADP: First it was attempts at design, trying to make interesting looking flyers for the bands that I was in and for music events that I was promoting. I really am a designer as opposed to an "artist".
SOL: Do you like to doodle?
ADP: I wish that I could, every time I see someone who is good at drawing just sitting around doing it, being able to entain themselves that way, I get jealous. It looks very satisfying.
5) Is there an artist you relate to?
I think that would be Warhol too, though not after he got famous. more like the Warhol in those stories when Truman Capote first met him and could not get over how odd that he thought that he was.
6) What would you call your style?
Post-modern-neo-minimalist comic art.
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