Ray Frenden is an illustrator guy that is able to make really good drawings. You can view his portfolio here: frenden.com. He also is the madman genius behind the hilarious web comic voorhees a jolly good fellow. An exerpt (LOL):

Anyway, I have had the pleasure to talk to him a little bit over the interweb as we are mutually involved with Oddica and several design message boards. I recently took the opportunity to ask him a few questions:

1) what is your favorite color
I never have a good answer for this. I immediately think black, but black is boring. My next instinct is to pick something garish, but then I start to

Ray Frenden is an amazing illustratorthink about its compliment and I digress. That’s your answer.

2) if you could kill anyone in the world, who would it be?
Alive, now? My childhood arch nemesis comes to mind, but that would just be gloating. Last I heard, he ended up in a real bad way. In all probability, the sort of “people” deserving a death sentence are actually corporations.

3) what is your art-making process?
Depending on the sort of art, I typically find some reference, throw it on my second monitor, and go to town with my tablet. I pencil in light blue first and either finish off with ‘inks’ in Painter or Manga Studio or paint in Photoshop. It’s a totally digital process. I work at about 1200 dpi, so if I need to make something vector it’s one easy step away.

4) do any of your animals ever help make art with you ?
I live out in the boonies and I have four dogs, five cats, fifteen chickens, and a horse; there aren’t many people to draw, so my lifedrawing comes from them!

5) if you had a time machine, and you could go back to any time period since the beginning of time, but you could not interact with anything… and only observe, where and when would you go?
I’m an armchair history buff with a penchant for the period that dealt with manifest destiny and the push westward. I’m supposedly 50% native american, but I’ve never had the genetic tests done. Their culture has always interested me. I realize that pursuing a chance to witness romantic nationalism at work is an entirely selfish answer. The atheist in me would be better served to get some definitive proof that organized religion is a sham.

6) what are you listening to right now?
Right this instant? The Decemberists. All Colin Meloy’s body of work set to shuffle. I really like sea shanties. You asked!

7) be honest, when you hear about huge natural disasters that happen to kill lots of people out in china, or indonesia or something, does a little part of you get excited to witness such a historic event ?
I’ll be as tactful as possible. I’m not a huge fan of humanity.

8) what inspired you to create voorhees a jolly good fellow ?
I really like the concept of Jason having an internal dialog that we never get to hear. I had a really rudimentary paint app open and Jason was the first thing that came to mind. It was a given.

9) what is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word “inordinate”
Too much. I’m simple.

10) what is your favorite childhood memory, EVER
I have a picture of me sitting on Smurf sheets, wearing pleather pants, sporting a bowl haircut, playing with an Ewok playset. Consumer whore for the win!