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Links
MICHAEL MANNING
MySpace
www.myspace.com/michael_manning
Inked Nation
www.inkednation.com/spidergarden
Spider Garden Yahoo group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spidergarden
Thanks to Dana/Phelion for initiating this forum dedicated to the discussion of my Spider Garden series.
Prints and Original Artwork
ObesessionArt
www.obsessionart.com
ObsessionArt's on-line gallery features fifty images of mine that can be ordered as high-quality prints in a wide variety of sizes.
Art @ Large
www.artatlarge.com
My New York rep with an on-line gallery of my original works for sale.
BOOKS/PUBLICATIONS
Five great sites from which to order my books and two of the best international fetish publications that have consistently supported my work.
NBM Publishing
www.nbmpublishing.com
Last Gasp
www.lastgasp.com
Eros Comix
www.eroscomix.com
Blowfish
www.blowfish.com
Amazon
www.amazon.com
Secret Magazine
www.secretmag.com
Skin Two
www.skintwo.com
EVENTS
I make appearances at these events on a semi-regular basis. Please check my LiveJournal and the Events section for updated information.
San Diego Comic-Con International
www.comic-con.org
The comix industry's biggest annual event.
Alternative Press Expo (APE)
www.comic-con.org/Pages/APEWhatsNew.html
San Francisco's rapidly growing alternative comix show. A must for fans of small press and independent publishers/creators.
Wonder Con
www.comic-con.org/Pages/WCWhatsNew.html
A Bay Area institution - now in downtown San Francisco.
Seattle Erotic Art Festival
www.seattleerotic.org
A four day celebration of erotica in all mediums with an art auction, sexy performances, lectures and signings by participating artists and much more.
STORES/GALLERIES
All of these venues have featured shows of my work at one time or another. Several also offer my graphic novels in their on-line catalog.
Madame S
www.madame-s.com
Good Vibrations
www.goodvibes.com
Stormy Leather
www.stormyleather.com
La Luz De Jesus
www.laluzdejesus.com
ARTISTS
Conspirators, collaborators, and kindred creative souls.
Patrick Conlon
www.totalknockoutproductions.com
Tattooist, illustrator, and co-creator of "Tranceptor". Check out the preview of his new solo graphic novel "Swarm" (NBM/2004).
Lyn Gaza
www.gazaphoto.com
Lyn's photography - beautifully surreal and erotic - explores the world of dreams though portraiture, landscapes, and manipulated imagery.
Bonnie Heath
www.bonheath.com
Bonnie was one of the organizational masterminds behind the Fantasm
events and was responsible for bringing Lyn and I to Atlanta as guest
artists in 2003 & 2004. She is also a very talented editorial/portrait
photographer and web designer who helped create and maintain my Spider
Garden site.
Tristan Crane + Ted Naifeh
www.howloathsome.com
"Courtney Crumrin" artist Ted Naifeh teams up with writer Tristan Crane to produce this exceptional comix series featuring transgendered heroine Catherine Gore.
John Bergin
www.grindertool.com/GrinderHome.html
Creator of Caliber's "Golgothika" comix series as well as the epic graphic novel "From Inside". A multi-media artist and musician whose nightmarish visions possess a dark venomous beauty.
Eric Noctifer
www.mercuriusrex.com
Eric is a mystic visionary who has been (among other things) a Butoh
dancer, video game actor, high couture fashion model, and Light Warrior.
His photography documents the inner and outer fringes of Japan's
music/performance scene and a personal world whose focus is upon the
miraculous, fantastic, and the magic of light and shadow.
David Aaron Clark
www.davidaaronclark.com
Author, actor, performer, musician, editor for Screw magazine and award-winning porn director, David was one of the first people to write reviews and articles about my work. His 1994 interview with me is reprinted in Lumenagerie.
Michele Serchuk
www.photodiva.com
Michele's erotic portraits reveal tantalizing glimpses of a sensual and shadowy inner world.
DOMINATRIXES/MODELS/PERFORMERS
Some of the beautiful muses who haunt my dreams and inspire my illustrations.
Mistress Via Vox (aka. Xia)
www.xia-bdsm.com
www.xiavox.com
Natural-born dominant Via Vox's motto is carpe diem. Dare to submit to this exquisite and talented mistress and be prepared for an adventure in submission you won't soon forget.
Black Widow
www.blackwidowsweb.org
Toronto-based fetish model Black Widow ensnares you in her web of hot sexy images. Shimmering corseted curves and poisoned kisses...
Zille Defeu
www.zilledefeu.com
www.darkplay.net
The decadently playful visions of fetish photographer and model Zille Defeu. Her paysite Dark Play is well worth the price of admission.
DeeDeeluxe
www.deedeeluxe.com
Lithe and lovely DeeDee brings a glamorously perverted twist to classic burlesque.
Aiden Starr
www.aidenstarr.net
Co-producer and star of the Vicious Vixens erotic BDSM line, petite voluptuous Aiden puts her latex-clad slave girls through their paces
Reina Aurora
www.reinaaurora.com
Leather-clad domme by day and hard rock bassist by night, Aurora is the real life inspiration for my Metal Web character of the same name. Her site features many of my photographic portraits of her.
Amanda Wildefyre
www.amandawildefyre.com
The Twin Cities' queen of predicament bondage and radical transformation. Mistress Amanda can break the unruliest human pony and will bring your inner latex maid to her knees.
Midori
www.fetishdiva.com
www.fhp-inc.com
San Francisco's fetish diva travels the globe, inviting you into her world of classy kink.
Jade Blue Eclipse
www.jade-blue.com
From the stages of local fetish clubs to the center ring of the modern-day avant circus, the incredibly sexy Jade Blue Eclipse brings her androgynous and sensual contortions to the people.
Kumi
www.kumimonster.com
Web model/fetish goddess extraodinaire Kumi's beautifully-proportioned skull has been photographed by some of the best in the business.
MUSICIANS
People often ask me what I listen to when I draw. Here's a small sampling of musicians whose work has influenced mine.
Languis
www.languis.com
Los Angeles-based electronic/ambient/dream pop combo are a band and a DJ collective. Their releases on Plug Research and Simballl Recs are well worth seeking out.
DubLab
www.dublab.com
Follow the Dubstream to an underwater fantasy world of liquid beats and deep sea ambience.
Atom Heart
www.music.hyperreal.org/artists/atom_heart
www.atom-heart.com
www.hyperreal.org/music/lists/mother
Enter the world of ultra-prolific electronic musician Uwe Schmidt aka: Atom Heart, ATOM, Se�or Coconut, Eric Satin, Roger Tubesound, Lisa Carbon, Midisport, Flanger, Geez 'n Gosh, Los Samplers, and so many more. Styles for miles and all uniquely his own.
Totimoshi
www.totimoshi.com
East Bay hard rock power trio Totimoshi are my idea of a good night away from the drawing board. Their site features artwork and photography by both Lyn and myself.
Oxbow
www.theoxbow.com
"Trouble that will trouble the world". A four-man Jesus Lizard/Birthday Party-style aural fuckfest. When these guys and Totimoshi share a stage, you'd better watch your face.
I Am Spoonbender
www.iamspoonbender.com
San Francisco's avant/electro/telekinetic brain children. The sound of the Seismic Seance.
Helios Creed/Chrome
www.helios-creed.com
www.staticwhitesound.com/chrome/discography.htm
The music of legendary Chrome co-founder/guitarist Helios Creed was one of the reasons I chose to relocate to San Francisco. He has since moved on but continues to gift the world with his signature dirty industrial space punk.
MUSIC
On-line sources for sonic goodies and informative reading that may have you wasting hours of browsing time and all your rent money. You've been "warned".
Arthur Magazine
www.arthurmag.com/news/index.php
The well-spring for much of what is free, freaky, and thought-provoking in the world of underground/alternative music and beyond. Back issues can be downloaded as PDF files.
Holy Mountain
www.holymountain.com
One of the best underground record labels around. An alternate universe of darkly-shining stars such as Om, Residual Echoes, Six Organs of Admittance and more.
Aquarius Records
www.aquariusrecords.org
A neighborhood gem in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District. If you can't make it there in person, they have an enormous on-line catalog with fun and informative reviews and a top-notch mail-order staff.
Forced Exposure
www.forcedexposure.com
Forced Exposure was originally a print zine that exhaustively documented underground music and art with mean-spirted zeal during the decade-long conservative-Republican-MTV-nightmare known as the 1980's. FE the website continues the tradition of bringing the noize to our new dark age.
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