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ABOUT THE MAN...
According to Image Plus #1, 19??
 
 
STATS

*FULL NAME:  Erik Jon Larsen

*BIRTHDATE:  Dec. 8, 1962

*BIRTHPLACE:  Minneapolis, MN

*HOMETOWN:  Oakland, CA


 
PERSONAL FAVORITES

*MOVIES:  Summer of '42

*FOODS:  Cap'n Crunch with Crunch Berries, Hostess Snowballs, Coffee Crisp

*RESTAURANTS:  Rosie's (local Mexican joint), Tommy's (local hofbrau), Zachary's (pizza)

*ATHLETES:  Oakland A's

*COMIC ARTISTS:  Kirby, Kane, Simonson, Miller

*COMIC ISSUES:  Hulk #156, Thor #337, What If #3

*COMIC CHARACTER:  The Dragon

*WHAT QUESTION ARE YOU ASKED MOST OFTEN?  "Do you draw like that?"  I hold my pencil funny, and by the way, the answer is yes!

*WHAT ARE YOUR PET PEEVES?  Having my name spelled wrong.  Answering questionnaires.


 
BIOGRAPHY

    If not for comics, Erik Jon Larsen says he would have been a dishwasher, ditch digger or a tedious, menial laborer.  He started drawing seriously at birth, and broke into comics when he published a fanzine, Graphic Fantasy.  After reading it, Gary Carlson contacted him and the rest was history.  His first professional work was Megaton #1, Nov. 1983.
    "Getting married and Savage Dragon 1-3 are my greatest accomplishments," Larsen says.  He spends four hours on full pencils and uses a Mars Lumograph 2H Clo-erase non-photo pencil.  He joined Image so he could have comlete control over his creations, with no editorial interference.
    In twenty years, he'd like to be doing Savage Dragon #240.  And he wants to be remembered as a "burned out old hack who's totally lost it... whining about the new young punks who are outselling him."


 
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
 
Doom Patrol #6-15 (DC)
Amazing Spider-Man #287, #329-350 (Marvel)
Punisher #21-25 (Marvel)
Spider-Man #15, 18-23 (Marvel)
 
    Erik has shown tremendous versatility over the course of his career, working on a variety of characters and books.  Erik gained his popularity during his tenure on Amazing Spider-Man and Spider-Man.  What makes Erik's career rise so special is the fact that in both cases on Spider-Man, he followed a successful run by another artist, Todd McFarlane, and continued to establish sales records utilizing his own personal style and rendition of the Spider-Man character.
 
 
TO ASPIRING ARTIST
 
    "Learn to draw... learn to draw everything.  Drawing comics is a very demanding profession.  Take classes, study anatomy and perspective.  Learn to draw!"
 
 
TO MY FANS...
 
    "Thanks for your support.  I'm having a hell of a time doing these comics and I hope you like them!"
 
 
 
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