INFLUENCE MEME 2017

The major influences that I feel strongest about this year.

(left to right, top to bottom):  ElfQuest (ALWAYS), Battle of the Planets (Gatchaman), Locke & Key (which seized my imagination with its fairy-tale AND horror qualities), TV’s Wonder Woman (grace, beauty, strength, wisdom), Gargoyles (a revolutionary cartoon that taught us not to talk down to your viewers but instead, elevate and include them), Henry David Thoreau (because I too wish to live deliberately), Alpha Flight (my first Canadian super-team), The Bionic Woman (her stories felt deeper to me than her male counterpart’s), The Magician’s Nephew (C.S.…