How does creating your works make you feel?
I must've been about 8 or 9 when I decided I wanted to be an artist - well more a cartoonist and illustrator. It was also around that time I decided I wasn't that much into sports and other rigidly organised childhood activities too.
I get a kick out of it, makes me laugh.
What's your day job? I'm the resident cartoonist at Luna Park Sydney, where I've been since 2008. Aside from that I freelance and study Digital Animation at JMC Academy.
What is your favourite medium to work with? Mostly just a pencil and paper, it's fairly inexpensive and it can really help if you need to back up your files.
Who are you inspired by? I was a typical 90s kid and I grew up with a lot of low brow alternative weird, watching a lot of cartoons and as an animation student I do to this day. The animated work of Don Bluth, Bill Plympton, Steven Silver and John Krisfaluski (Creator of Ren and Stimpy), Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Liquid Television, Beavis and Butt-Head. Comics like The Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes or basically anything I'm Googling at the time. www.eddyer.com
Ed Dyer 20
NOVEMER 2011
Images courtesy of Ed Dyer.
When did you first know you wanted to be an artist?