Withersin’s Damned Interview with:

Nick Tripiciano

I am a young illustrator looking to make it in the crazy world. I’ve graduated with an Illustration degree from University of the Arts in Philadelphia and I’ve done a few commissions since. I live in a cozy apartment with my loving wife and sneaky mini Aussie.

List published works/accomplishements:

Covers and interiors for Shroud Publishing (www.shroudmagazine.com) and Withersin Press

Interior for Cemetery Dance Magazine (www.cemeterydance.com)

List website: www.tripiciano.com

How can we contact you? I can be contacted at nick@tripiciano.com.

In your own words, define Withersin.

Dark, intriguing and mysterious

If you were a sideshow act, what would you be?

I might make a good geek.

What is your greatest non-literary influence?

Horror movies. I love horror movies. And videogames involving vampires.

Describe your most irrational fear.

I’m actually afraid of running out of cereal, believe it or not.

How about your most guilty pleasure?

I may have already covered this, but I have a weakness for Reese’s Puffs cereal, but I don’t really feel guilty about it.

Name the most disturbing nursery rhyme/fairy tale you can recall.

Humpty Dumpty is pretty messed up. Poor guy couldn’t be helped by anyone; even the horses tried!

Do you eat meat?

Only of those creatures too slow to escape

What were the skies like when you were young?

The skies were carefree and full of wonder and magic. Now they’re just full of bills and smog.

Name your favorite garden tool.

Gardner

Name your least favorite color, first job and worst job.

I dislike all colors equally. My first job was at a CVS. I ran the register and took out the trash. My worst job was as a caddy at the local golf course. Borring.

Favorite:  Author, Movie, Music Group, Song, and Quote.

HP Lovecraft; Army of Darkness, Mastodon is my fav right now, maybe long term its Blind Guardian or Testament; A Well Beside The River by Skyclad; “Right now all your leading is Jack and Shit; and Jack left town…”

If you were a loaf of bread what kind would you be?

Hobo Bread

Weirdest news you have read in your local newspaper:

“Want to be a Coroner? Anybody can!”

Why horror?

It’s just plain fun.

Here’s a photo titled, “INEDIBLE NOT INTENDED FOR HUMAN FOOD” 

You have 112 words.  Go.

In the dark of the night a man is issued a new mission: Find the Dreaded Swamp Monster in the wild Forbidden Marshlands. He sets forth looking for the appropriate bait for such a beast, and quickly remembers that several children have gone missing over the past few months. Many man hours were spent searching the mysterious marshlands, shrouded in mist. In the end, no children were ever recovered. To catch a specific prey, one must use a specific bait. Several more children would go missing over the next several weeks and that just added fuel to the fervor to catch the beast. Truck loaded, he set out to find his monster.