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What do you do for a living?: Pre-press technician

What are your favorite graphic novels/comics/books?: Cerebus, The Invisibles, Stray Bullets, Bacchus, Enigma, Xenozoic Tales, Plastic Farm, Metropol, Tale of One Bad Rat, Marville, Signal To Noise, Rare Bit Fiends.

One of these is a lie.

Where do you hail from?: Originally from New Jersey. Now in Maryland by way of South Carolina.

About Me:: Rafer Roberts is an ordained minister who will gladly marry you to whomever or whatever you wish. His only fee (on top of compensation for travel and lodging) is that both he and his wife be invited to the reception and be allowed to eat and drink as much as they desire.

If you have a dry wedding, his fee is One Thousand Dollars.

When not perfoming wedding ceremonies between a man and a fencepost, Rafer writes and often draws the comic book Plastic Farm.

Website:: http://www.plasticfarm.com

Favorite Music:: Ecelectic.

Apocalyptica, Ennio Morricone, Johnny Cash, Th' Legendary Shack-Shakers, Be Good Tanyas, Dick Dale, Esquivel, Gogol Bordello, Jethro Tull, Mojo Nixon, Monster Magnet, Dan Hicks And The Hot Licks, NOFX, Of Montreal, Ravi Shankar, Richard Cheese, Asylum Street Spankers, Donovan, Johnny Thunders, Southern Culture on the Skids, Kronos Quartet, Apples In Stereo, Willie Nelson, Jimi Hendrix, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Black Sabbath, Chuck Berry, Ella Fitzgerald, Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, Iron Horse, John Coltrane, John Lee Hooker, Pizzicato Five, Beck, Led Zeppelin, Frank Sinatra, Faith No More, Nirvana, Peter Gabriel, Primus, Reverend Horton Heat, Roy Orbison,, Atomic Bitchwax, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Misfits, Pogues,, Traveling Wilburys, The Who, Squirrel Nut Zippers, James Brown, Aquabats, Fantômas, Helge And The Firefuckers, Rappy Mcrapperrson, Friends Of Dean Martinez, Ween, Man Or Astroman?, Guy Forsyth, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, G. Love and Special Sauce, Gabby La La, Pink Floyd, Tenacious D, Beatles, Jolie Holland, Guns N' Roses, 2 Skinnee J's, Those Darn Accordians, Bob Dylan, Seu Jorge, Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, Jeff Wayne, Mister Bungle, Rasputina, R.L. Burnside, R. Crumb And The Cheap Suit Serenaders...I have, as of 07/21/07, 125.4 days worth of music on my computer.

I listen to a lot of music when I draw.

Favorite TV Shows:: Twin Peaks, The Office, Firefly, Traffik, 24 (seasons 1-5), Prison Break, documentaries about space or science or dinosaurs or war or other things that happened or that people thought was important enough to make a documentary about, that episode of WifeSwap with the crazy fundamentalist lady, and home movie shows where people get hit in the nuts.

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Plastic Farm on The Comic Book Attic

The interview I recorded with Michael Pindell at Comic Book Attic is now up.

http://comicbookattic.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=266065

(You can also subscribe through iTunes)

I think I went crazy about halfway through and went on an obscenity filled rant against Delta Airlines. At one point I think I declared my intention that Plastic Farm, in addition to the digital downloads, at some point in the future, will be available from a cow's ass. All of this, I believe, was wi…

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Posted on October 24th, 2007 at 5:23pm — No Comments (Add)

Plastic Farm, SPX, and you!

SPX is this upcoming weekend, and Plastic Farm Press will be at table A-10. Click here for the map... http://www.spxpo.com/floor2007b.pdf

On Friday only, from 2pm to 6pm, we will be joined by the one and only Danielle Corsetto. You all remember Danielle, right? She draws this: http://www.daniellecorsetto.com/gws.html

And she also drew this:

So make sure you swing by early!

With the new publishing deal…

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Posted on October 9th, 2007 at 11:45pm — No Comments (Add)

Hooray for comics! Hooray for Plastic Farm!

Hooray! The free online serialization of Plastic Farm has begun over at the main Ambrosia site.

For those of you who have forgotten, Plastic Farm is now being published by Ambrosia. There will be four collections comprised of the first 12 issues of the comic, followed by new stuff. There will also be free online serializations of the comic as well as digital download version… Continue

Posted on October 3rd, 2007 at 12:58am — No Comments (Add)

Plastic Farm Comic Book Dance Party

The Plastic Farm podcast has returned with a brand new format. I am now doing a "director's commentary" style podcast where I ramble on incoherantly about each issue of Plastic Farm while trying to drown out the sounds of monkeys and roosters and industrial machines. Each episode, which is planned to be monthly (but we'll see how that goes), will also feature a few tracks from the various Plastic Farm soundtracks as well as a few tracks that were left off. In this first episode of the Comic Bo… Continue

Posted on August 6th, 2007 at 10:51pm — No Comments (Add)