Some favorite movies: Mulan, Fanny and Alexander, Ran, Henry Fool, Duck Soup, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf, Cyrano de Bergerac<\/a>, Bullets Over Broadway, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Sideways, Singing in the Rain, West Side Story, Pulp Fiction, City of Lost Children, Brazil.<\/p>\n Some favorite TV: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Deadwood, The Sopranos, Absolutely Fabulous, WonderFalls, Dead Like Me, Roseanne, Pennies From Heaven, Six Feet Under.<\/em><\/p>\n Some favorite musicals: Sweeny Todd, Follies, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Assassins, Company, Merrily We Roll Along<\/em> (notice a pattern?). Also Falsettos, The Secret Garden, Candide, Parade, Avenue Q<\/em>.<\/p>\n Some favorite comics: Cerebus <\/em>(despite itself), From Hell, Zot!, Dicebox, Maus, Dykes To Watch Out For, Stuck Rubber Baby, Love and Rockets<\/em>, the Weirdo-era R. Crumb, Peanuts, Pogo, Calvin and Hobbes, Krazy Kat, Barnaby, Cages, Understanding Comics, Finder<\/em>.<\/p>\n Some favorite books: Guns, Germs and Steel, The Riddle Master Trilogy, The Secret History, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Accidental Tourist, Breathing Lessons, Red Mars, Duluth, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, all the Harry Potter books (but especially “Prisoner”), Misery, Doomsday Book<\/em>.<\/p>\n I live in a big house with a bunch of my friends (including “Alas” posters Kim (basement variety!), Bean<\/a>, Charles, and Elkins) in Portland, Oregon; the house is painted bright blue with bubble-gum pink trim. Aside from that, I watch too much TV, work for a non-profit historic society (among my other hats, I’m a wedding coordinator), write about feminism, fat equality, and whatever else catches my interests, and beyond that I just hang out a lot.<\/p>\n You can send me email at barry (at) amptoons (dot) com.<\/p>\n I (Ampersand, a.k.a. Barry Deutsch) was born to a queen in 1968. Well, not really, but I was born in Queens, which is even better. I’m a cartoonist; you can find more about my cartooning on my home page. Of … Continue reading 
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