Luis M. Influence Map

I don't have too much influences. I know about different artists, but not ALL of them influenced my work, just some of them, but as far I see, I need to study more people to learn even more.

Influences in order of importance in my work

R. Crumb. -His taste for music, the kind of drawings I would like to achive someday (Except for some of those dirty comics; those aren't of my taste) and I feel identified with him by some reason. Learned too much with him.

Otto Mesmer. -Felix the cat was the second cartoon I knew of after Warner Bros. cartoons. Awesome comics and great cartoons. I discovered here that if I ever work in animation, I would like to bring back silent cartoons with exciting hot jazzy music for a while.

Ed Benedict. -Gosh! Just look the charm of everything he does! A master

H. Kurtzman. -My truly inspiration and motivation since I discovered his "Hey Look!" comics. He experimented a lot with other styles and stories. That's why I tend to draw different as much as possible.

Pepo. -Another guy with extreme god given talent for drawing and for punchlines.

Carl Barks. -Dynamic stuff. Fun on each panel. A genius, better than W. Disney.

Hergé. -No words for him. Superb and... GAH! AWESOME!

Nicolas de Crécy

Toriyama. -I started to draw animé and then cartooning turned on my passion for drawing, also I liked the work he did, except Dragon Ball Z. The first artist that motivated me to draw.

Jean Claude Forest. -Have you seen his brush inking? God Damn

Dave McKean.

Jay Ward. -Rocky and Bullwinkle

Rogelio Naranjo. At a beginning, back in 2005, I used to draw political cartoons but then I realized that is very dangerous in a country like this one. Naranjo has a lots of guts to still doing it, and, just see his beautiful drawings

Magú. -Another political cartoonist. He's a genious, he can make a caricature of you with a very personal and distorted style but keeping you face totally identical. Hell yeah! Also I like his lines.

Jim Davis. -Yes, he influeced me, a lot and taught me a lot about drawing comic strips.

George Herriman. -I didn't knew that you could have that fun with comics changing the layout, writing bizarre jokes and gags. My hero

Chuck Jones. -I just envy his superpowers

Carlos Nine. -He's the guilty for giving me days of depressions and felling small. His body of work is astonishing and I tried to achive that kind of drawing, but is impossible for me.

Fontanarrosa. -Comic artist from Argentina. And one of the best. Inspired me to create Seth and Poncho.

Baseman.

E.C. Segar. -No words for him as well. Just marvelous.

Will Eisner. -The Spirit and his epic "picture writing". Thanks to this genious I'm drawing my own comics now.

Jacques Tardi. -More inspiration for Seth and Poncho.

Wobert Clampett. -He did the cartoons of cartoons, that's it.

All kinds of old music from United States, France and Mexico. -Always as backgroud music while drawing. When I feel demotivated, this generation of musicians are on my computer and records to cheer me up. God Bless that music forever.


-Luis