My Influences

I have a page at a failed social media site that I almost never check, but it still has a few good things that I am going to be transferring over to this site, which I plan to be much better at editing in the future. Here is the first import - a list of my influences, with a few more additions than was on the original. It may keep getting updated as I go along, but here it is at this point in time:

Influences:
Douglas Adams
Ben Avery
Johann Sebastian Bach
the Bible
John Bunyan
Kurt Busiek
John Byrne's 1980s oevre
Lewis Carroll
Johnny Cash
GK Chesterton
Chris Claremont's X-Men #96 to #200; New Mutants 1-22
classical music
Ray Comfort
classic fairy tales
my family
classic fantasy
Todd Friel
my friends
golden age comics
Ken Ham
Harry Houdini
hymns
Jesus Christ
Jim Kreuger
late 80's to early 90's Christian indie/rap/metal/industrial music
David Letterman
CS Lewis
John MacArthur
Scott McCloud
Megazeen
Alan Moore (not his porn, though...)
old-time radio
Denny O'Neil
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Ripley
science fiction
Secret Wars, issue #8, page 23, panel 5
Walt Simonson's run on Thor
The Simpsons (first ten years)
Star Wars (A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back)
Steve Taylor
Terry Scott Taylor (Swirling Eddies, Daniel Amos, Lost Dogs, et al)
JRR Tolkien
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Orson Welles
Charles Williams

Almost all of these come with a caveat, of course. Just because they influenced me doesn't mean that they are all good, and some influenced me in spite of not being very good at all. But that would be a discussion for another time.