I grew up all over Texas and parts of Tennessee and New Mexico during the 80s and 90s when video stores were everything. From the time I could hold a crayon I have drawn on anything that sat still long enough. As my grandpa says, “times were hard” and most of the art on our walls were of my design...houses dwarfed by cats, people with no torsos, often incorporating my latest celebrity obsessions. Doesn’t every home need 3 or 4 dozen drawings of the Ghostbusters? 

In high school, like most teens, I discovered The Beatles (albeit 30+ years after Beatlemania) and really began to try different techniques and mediums mainly just to see if I could. My room was papered in hand drawn scenes from Yellow Submarine, the Revolver album cover and a framed pastel of Ringo Starr, he’s my favorite. 

In 1993, I saw Tombstone and fell in love with old west icons, or at least Val Kilmer’s depiction of one, so I started drawing in the style befitting of that era, pencil and charcoal. I’d found my niche. Spring of 1995, I had seen Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight about 6 times and, like most, realized Billy Zane is beautiful and I had to draw him. Unbeknownst to me, this would also cement my love for drawing horror. 

My kinship with movies, particularly horror, has only grown. I revel in the juxtaposition between my quirky sense of humor and dark subject matter. Nervous Pretzel is the culmination of that relationship. Sharing art created for pop culture nerds by a pop culture nerd.

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Starla