Biography: Ezra Claytan Daniels is a writer and illustrator based in Chicago, IL. His critically acclaimed graphic novel series, The Changers, began a unique comics career peppered with a number of collaborative multimedia projects including, with interactive artist Erik Loyer, the groundbreaking experimental iPhone App, Ruben & Lullaby. Ezra is also the creator of the popular live art spectacle, The Comic Art Battle, and Loaded Blanks Greetings, a line of fill-in-the-blanks comic-art greeting cards featuring both established as well as up and coming comics artists. Ezra is currently working on the narrative art meets live chamber music concert series, Black Violet, with Chicago-based chamber group, Fifth House Ensemble.

ADDITIONAL FACTS:
Top Music: Stevie Wonder, Alain Goraguer, Public Enemy, Talking Heads, Chad VanGaalen, Alfred Schnittke, Alexis Gideon, Jerry Reed, Curtis Mayfield, Ennio Morricone, Funkadelic, Shelley Short, John Barry, David Bowie, Roger Miller, Mary Jane Girls, El Perro Del Mar, Staple Singers

Top Movies: Only Yesterday (Takahata), The Fly (Cronenberg), Badlands (Mallick), Stalker (Tarkovsky), M (Lang), Elephant Man (Lynch), Time of the Wolf (Haneke), The Thing (Carpenter), Wings of Desire (Wenders), Billy the Kid (Venditti), Being John Malkovich (Jonze), Diabolique (Clouzot), Robocop (Verhoven), Fantastic Planet (Laloux), Gods Must Be Crazy (Uys), Fargo (Coen), Road Warrior (Miller), Night of the Hunter (Laughton), Rosemary's Baby (Polanski), Stroszek (Herzog)

Top Books/Comics: Odd John (Stapledon), Kings in Disguise (Vance/Burr), Geek Love (Dunn), Domu (Otomo), Very Special People (Drimmer), Uzumaki (Ito), 100% (Pope), Nikopol Trilogy (Bilal), Pioneers of the Human Adventure (Boucq) Black Hole (Burns)

Photograph by Eric Snoza