Patrick Farley

Infobox Person
name = Patrick Sean Farley


website = http://pfarley.livejournal.com/

Patrick Sean Farley is a freelance illustrator and Web page designer working out of Portland, Oregon.

Biography

Patrick Farley the creator of comics under the anthology Electric Sheep Comix. Scott McCloud cites ["" (2000, ISBN 0-06-095350-0)] him as an early pioneer of the webcomics movement. He is the author of a semi-autobiographical webcomics graphic novel "The Guy I Almost Was" and of several other Web based comics or stories, listed below.

One unusual project of his is "Apocamon: The Final Judgement", a satirical, stylized presentation of the Book of Revelation in a graphic style similar to the Pokemon trading card game and a writing style similar to the comic book tracts of Jack T. Chick.

In addition to the traditional strip format Farley has presented work in the infinite canvas mode peculiar to the more innovative web comics, and he has done many stories using 3D tools such as Poser and Bryce.

The [http://webcomicsreview.com/examiner/ Web Comics Examiner] wrote a story about Farley's work in December 2004 titled [http://webcomicsreview.com/examiner/issue041213/farley.html "Patrick Farley, Apocalyptic Utopian"] .

As of 2007, Farley has taken a hiatus from comics work to pursue projects in the film industry.

Works

In November 2007 Farley's registration of the domain http://www.e-sheep.com/ expired and his work became inaccessible. The Internet Archive has [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.e-sheep.com archived fragments] of the site for historical reference. On January 1, 2008, Farley wrote [ [http://pfarley.livejournal.com/103367.html pfarley: A Happy New Year to All ] ] that his works will return under a new domain name, http://www.electricsheepcomics.com.

The following links point to pages on the defunct domain e-sheep.com. When the website at the new domain electricsheepcomics.com is populated with Farley's work, they should be corrected.

*" [http://www.e-sheep.com/moab/ The Mother of all Bombs] " (2005, with Justine Shaw)
*" [http://www.e-sheep.com/apocamon/ Apocamon: The Final Judgement] " (2003, still in progress)
*" [http://www.e-sheep.com/spiders/ The Spiders] " (2001 - 2003, still in progress)
*" [http://www.e-sheep.com/delta/ Delta Thrives] " (2002, still in progress)
*" [http://www.e-sheep.com/zaccharine/ Barracuda: The Scotty Zaccharine Story] " (2002)
*" [http://www.e-sheep.com/shapeshifter/ Shapeshifter] " (2000)
*" [http://www.e-sheep.com/rusheats/ Rush Limbaugh Eats Everything] " (2000)
*" [http://www.e-sheep.com/terrors/ Terrors of the Night] " (2000)
*" [http://www.e-sheep.com/almostguy/ The Guy I Almost Was] " (1998)
*" [http://www.e-sheep.com/jain/ The Jain's Death] " (1998)
*" [http://www.e-sheep.com/chrysalis/ Chrysalis Colossus] " (1998)
*" [http://www.e-sheep.com/rave/ Overheard at the Rave] " (1998)
*" [http://www.e-sheep.com/turkey/ Thanksgiving Special] or, "How Nature's Turkey Came to Inhabit the Abandoned Industrial Park" (1998)
*" [http://www.e-sheep.com/Saturnalia/ Saturnalia] " (1995)

References

External links

* [http://www.e-sheep.com/ "electricsheep comix"] (defunct)
* [http://www.futurealstudio.com/bio/patrickfarley.html Patrick Farley on Futurealstudio.com]
* [http://www.futurealstudio.com/films/aidc/artof/deltathrives.html Delta Thrives on Futurealstudio.com]