Biography: Ezra Claytan Daniels was born in Sioux City, IA in 1979. At 19, Ezra moved to Portland, OR to pursue a career as an illustrator. It was there that Ezra became a staple of the independent comics community with his self-published graphic novel series, The Changers as well as his game show-inspired live art spectacle, The Comic Art Battle. In 2006, Ezra founded Loaded Blanks Greetings, a greeting card line featuring both established as well as up and coming comics artists. Ezra currently resides in Chicago where he is hard at work on his second graphic novel, Upgrade Soul.

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Top Music: Stevie Wonder, Alain Goraguer, Public Enemy, Jerry Reed, Curtis Mayfield, Ennio Morricone, Funkadelic, Shelley Short, John Barry

Top Movies: Only Yesterday (Takahata), The Fly (Cronenberg), Badlands (Mallick), Stalker (Tarkovsky), M (Lang), Elephant Man (Lynch), Time of the Wolf (Haneke)

Top Books: Odd John (Stapledon), Kings in Disguise (Vance/Burr), Very Special People (Drimmer), Uzumaki (Ito), 100% (Pope), Nikopol Trilogy (Bilal), Pioneers of the Human Adventure (Boucq)

Top Video Games: Fatal Frame (PS2), Silver Surfer (NES) Gitarooman (PS2), Red Dead Revolver (PS2)

Top Radio Programs: Coast To Coast AM, X Minus One, 2000 Plus, Lights Out, Dimension X, Weird Circle, The Whistler

Top TV Shows: America's Funniest Home Videos, Freaks and Geeks, Anne of Green Gables