A translator by trade, but also a film and comics freak. Since late 2007, I have worked full-time as a painter, mainly of portraits. Take a look at some of my drawings and paintings in my image albums.



Wife, three children (93, 95 and 99), two cats (used to have Persians, but have switched to housecats now) and a dog (border terrier/jack russell/Japanese spitz/papillon).

Favourite... (runners-up in alphabetic order)

... music: Elvis Costello or David Bowie. (Electric Light Orchestra, Jan Hammer, Elton John, Billy Joel, Giorgio Moroder, Mike Oldfield (man, making that list makes me realize what an 80's relic I am), Hans Zimmer)

... artist: Neal Adams or Moebius (Enki Bilal, John Byrne, Leonardo da Vinci, Henrik Elnegaard, Glenn Fabry, Lian Quan Zhen, Frank Miller, Jon J. Muth, Bill Sienkiewicz, Rembrandt van Rijn, Bill Watterson, Berni Wrightson)

... comic book: Watchmen or Adams' Deadman (the original Blueberry albums or anything else by Giraud/Gir/Moebius, The Dark Knight Returns, Les dents du recoin, The Killing Joke, Preacher, Sin City, Wrightson's Swamp Thing, Valérian)

... movie: The Dead Zone (An American Werewolf in London, Babe, Blow Out, Cat People, Evil Dead 2, Fight Club, Grand Canyon, The Hitcher, Ladyhawke, Parenthood, Sense and Sensibility, True Lies, What Lies Beneath)

... writer: Ray Bradbury (Clive Barker, Stephen King, Alan Moore)

... colour: black (red and green)

... feeling: that of having finished - i.e. made - a good drawing or painting (finding the right idiom for your translation, reading a good book (preferably by the fire), sex)

... clothes: the old paint-covered denims and sweater I wear to paint and make acrylic highlights in drawings (my almost worn-out leather jacket)

... tv series: Pride and Prejudice miniseries (Friends, Desperate Housewives, Judging Amy, Medium, NYPD Blue - I would include Twin Peaks, but that just got plain silly after #14)

... food: mashed potatoes with fried bacon and onion (cinnamon apple pie à la mode, lemon mousse)

... drink: Coke (Bailey's, Big Five, Glenmorangie, Irish Coffee, Margarita, water)

... animal: dog or cat - wow, there's a noncommittal definition, but it's true, I like dogs and cats the same, although not for the same reasons; they both have their strengths and weaknesses (if we're including fable animals, I guess you can't beat dragons)

... game: Sketchorama


And, just to round things off, a couple of good definitions:
1. Coffee (n.), a person who is coughed upon.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent
6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightie.
7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle (n.), an olive-flavoured mouthwash.
9. Flatulence (n.) the emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified demeanor assumed by a proctologist immediately before he examines you
13. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddish expressions.
14. Circumvent (n.), the opening in the front of boxer shorts.
15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), The belief that, when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Pokemon (n), A Jamaican proctologist.

...and a couple of daffynitions:
1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
3. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid (e.g.: "I'm a doctor...")
4. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
5. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
6. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
7. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
8. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease.
9. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
10. Glibido: All talk and no action.
11. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly
12. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.