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MICHAEL MANNING
Facebook
www.facebook.com/pages/The-Art-of-Michael-Manning
MySpace
www.myspace.com/michael_manning
Spider Garden Yahoo group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spidergarden
MM BOOKS
The SPIDER GARDEN and TRANCEPTOR series books are now available directly from me. To place orders, please contact me at my Earthlink address below. You can also order my books from these sites.
Last Gasp
www.lastgasp.com
Eros Comix
www.eroscomix.com
Blowfish
www.blowfish.com
Amazon
www.amazon.com
BOOKS/PUBLICATIONS
Two of the best international fetish publications that have consistently supported my work.
Skin Two
www.skintwo.com
Secret Magazine
www.secretmag.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
The San Francisco/Bay Area's premiere 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.patrickconlon.net
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
www.tristancrane.com/
Tristan Crane is a writer and photographer of exceptional talent. His collaboration with Ted Naifeh on the "How Loathsome" series remains a high point for alternative comix.
Ted Naifeh
tednaifeh.com
"How Loathsome" artist Ted Naifeh's solo comix work (Courtney Crumrin, Polly & The Pirates, Unearthly) is equally enthralling.
John Bergin
www.grindertool.com
Creator of Caliber's "Golgothika" comix series as well as the epic graphic novel "From Inside" (soon to be an animated feature). 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.
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 Xia
www.xiavox.com
Lovely natural-born dominant Xia's motto is carpe diem. Her blog Chronicles of Vox covers a wide range of subject matter, all written in her unique, insightful and intimately entertaining style.
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
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.planetmidori.com
www.fhp-inc.com
San Francisco's fetish diva travels the globe, inviting you into her world of classy kink.
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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