Nice thread. JC One, I'm with you on the old stars of the wild style, dondi and doze were two idols of mine as a kid, coming from the middle of nowhere in the UK, it was always like NYC was a long way from home, but I was given the 'Subway Art' book aged 9, in 1985, and it blew me away!

My other inspirations are... Keith Haring (unrestricted creative fun), Brian Cook (amazing 1940s bookcover illustrator, painted british landscapes in wild colours), Airside (uk design studio that i actually ended up working for for a while), Takeshi Murakami (legend), Schultz (Charlie Brown, the simplest, most wonderful character ever created), Jeff Soto, Pixar, old graf, new graf (Daim especially for breaking the flatness and Phibs from Melbourne who took a great city and made it greater), a million and one great current illustrators, vintage food packaging (mostly candy and cereal packets) and nature, just getting outside and looking at the world. And lots and lots of music, mostly The Polyphonic Spree and The Beatles and Adem. Hmmmm, reckon that's it.

Yo wassup ev'rybody!
Okay inspiration and influence, have you got a mo'! Coz once you got me started...
From the first cave paintings, Aboriginal art, Aztec and Maya art and glifs, African statues, Cubism: Picasso, Braque. Surrealism: Dali. Da-Da: Kurt Schwitters, Paul van Ostaaijen. De Stijl: Piet Mondriaan, Rietveld. Pop-art: Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg.
Ukiyo-e (Japanese woodprints): Ando Horishige, Katsushika Hokusai. Graffiti artists: Futura 2000, Phase 2, Rammelzee, Keith Haring, Basquiat.
The Old School Funk Mob: James Brown, The J.B.'s, George Clinton, ***Parliament/Funkadelic***, William "Bootsy" Collins, Maceo Parker, The Horny Horns, Sly Stone, Roger Troutman and Zapp, Trouble Funk.
Hip Hop: Sugar Hill Gang, Afrika Bambaataa, Jungle Brothers, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Digital Underground, Biz Markie, Dough E Fresh, Slick Rick, The Roots, Razhel, Scratch, Busta Rhymes.
DJ's: Grand Master Flash, Kool DJ Red Alert, Mark The 45 King, Funkmaster Flex, Q-Bert, Mix Master Mike.
All the B-boys & Fly Girls.
Kraftwerk, The Art Of Noise, Lee "Scratch" Perry.
Paper: Shin, Phil, MCK, Nice Bunny, Jonny Chiba, 3 Eyed Bear, Macula TV, Mat Hawkins, Marshall Alexander, Ben the Illustrator, Sjors Trimbach, Nick Knite and the list goes on and on and on, till the break-a-break of dawn.
CHECK THEM ALL!!!!!!!!

Inspirado! What gets my creative juices flowing?

I like graphic design and typography a bunch... my favorites are The Designers Republic, Buro Destruct, and The Attik.

I play a lot of Japanese role playing games. Series like Final Fantasy and Shin Megami Tensei. Systems like the PC-Engine CD and MEGA-CD. 16 bits. I like manga too, especially Go Nagai and Kaori Yuki.
I love the work of CLAMP and Junko Mizuno!

I like both punk rock and gothic music, and I like the artwork of Pushead and Jhonen Vasquez.
Other musical genres that continue to inspire me are glam rock, industrial, shoegaze, britpop, and disco! Not just the sound, but the aesthetic as well...

I have read a lot of comic books, my favorites feature art by Bill Sienkiewicz or Dave McKean. I like superheroes!

I collect Bearbricks and Qees!

Tokidoki!

SANRIO!