I chose Harry Clarke's artwork for this site for several reasons. One, he is a major influence on my own style, and two, he captures the weirdness of the Fantasy and Horror genres in which I work better than just about anybody else. The only other artist who might do this as well is Lee Brown Coye. Both Clarke and Coye have a cartooniness that is not currently popular in our comic book superhero style world but appeals to me greatly.

Harry Clarke was an irish stain-glass artist primarily. He did several important illustrated books from which these images on this site are taken. Illustrations of this caliber have insured that Clarke is mentioned in the same breath as Kay Nielsen, Edmund Dulac, Arthur Rackham and Aubrey Beardsley. These books include:

Hans Christian Andersen's Andersen's Fairy Tales

Goethe's Faust.

Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination