Amy McKay


I'm just going to list a few of my favourite things here, it's all media/culture/entertainment by the looks of it. Oh, and before you get creeped out by that photo of me posing over there, have a click on it, it's a parody. Though I have to say that the first time I saw that advertisement six years ago I ripped it out of the magazine and put it in my keeps-box, I think subconsciously I have wanted to look like that for years. Not the skinniness! No, it was Erin's face that made me 'wow!' artists and illustrators- Ronald Searle, Quentin Blake, Posy Simmons, Tony Ross, Edward Ardizzone, Fritz Wegner, David McKee, Al Hirchfeld, Charles Addams, David Hockney, Millais, John Singer Sergeant, Norman Rockwell, Cezanne. children's books- Fred by Posy Simmons, The Dog Who Thought he was a Boy by Cora Annett and Walter Lorraine, Pierre by Maurice Sendak, Lazy Jack by Tony Ross, The Baby Catalogue by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, Stanley and Rhoda by Rosemary Wells. books- Catch-22 by Joeseph Heller, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse, Harpo Speaks by Harpo Marx. comics- Beryl the Peril Annual 1969, Batman the Killing Joke by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland. films- Withnail and I, The Elephant Man, Duck Soup, The Bishop's Wife, Arsenic and Old Lace, Sherlock Jr, Ed Wood, Die Hard, Glengarry Glen Ross, Amadeus, Twelfth Night, Empire of the Sun, Napoleon Dynamite. For some reason I still list drawing as a hobby, I suppose now that that's work, my main hobby is going to the cinema but I'm also a keen theatregoer, writer, amatuer-actress-for-three-glorious-overacted-years-but-not-anymore, radio 2 listener, domestic goddess and couch potato. My favourite TV series is the long since finished TV newsroom sitcom Drop the Dead Donkey, sometimes when I watch the news I like to imagine what the Globelink team would make of it. I also like cornflakes, Roxy Music and The Beatles.	The Interview... In my work I like to use some things over and over again. I'm fond of double-acts, I don't think I could write a book about a singular character even though I'm quite a solitary person. My characters are always; 'Anna and Scaleface', 'Lauren and Susie', 'Stan and Froggy', 'Amy and Kirandeep'. These double acts are always the same though, one's the sarcastic angry one and the other one is fun-loving and carefree- and sometimes a bit dim. Something I've noticed lately is dinosaurs. They crop up an awful lot, sometimes as characters, main or supporting, sometimes just lurking in the background or on packaging. I've always been a fanatical sort of a person and the first thing I was crazy about was dinosaurs (see tiny photo of me and Dad-Y and dinosaur book!) Comedy is so important to me when it comes to literature. Are any of my favourite books not comedy? Only one of those books is non-fiction and it's Harpo Marx's autobiography, I don't really think that counts against me!

I'm just going to list a few of my favourite things here, it's all media/culture/entertainment by the looks of it. Oh, and before you get creeped out by that photo of me posing over there, have a click on it, it's a parody. Though I have to say that the first time I saw that advertisement six years ago I ripped it out of the magazine and put it in my keeps-box, I think subconsciously I have wanted to look like that for years. Not the skinniness! No, it was Erin's face that made me 'wow!'

artists and illustrators- Ronald Searle, Quentin Blake, Posy Simmons, Tony Ross, Edward Ardizzone, Fritz Wegner, David McKee, Al Hirchfeld, Charles Addams, David Hockney, Millais, John Singer Sergeant, Norman Rockwell, Cezanne.

children's books- Fred by Posy Simmons, The Dog Who Thought he was a Boy by Cora Annett and Walter Lorraine, Pierre by Maurice Sendak, Lazy Jack by Tony Ross, The Baby Catalogue by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, Stanley and Rhoda by Rosemary Wells.

books- Catch-22 by Joeseph Heller, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse, Harpo Speaks by Harpo Marx.

comics- Beryl the Peril Annual 1969, Batman the Killing Joke by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland.

films- Withnail and I, The Elephant Man, Duck Soup, The Bishop's Wife, Arsenic and Old Lace, Sherlock Jr, Ed Wood, Die Hard, Glengarry Glen Ross, Amadeus, Twelfth Night, Empire of the Sun, Napoleon Dynamite.

For some reason I still list drawing as a hobby, I suppose now that that's work, my main hobby is going to the cinema but I'm also a keen theatregoer, writer, amatuer-actress-for-three-glorious-overacted-years-but-not-anymore, radio 2 listener, domestic goddess and couch potato. My favourite TV series is the long since finished TV newsroom sitcom Drop the Dead Donkey, sometimes when I watch the news I like to imagine what the Globelink team would make of it. I also like cornflakes, Roxy Music and The Beatles.

The Interview...

In my work I like to use some things over and over again. I'm fond of double-acts, I don't think I could write a book about a singular character even though I'm quite a solitary person. My characters are always; 'Anna and Scaleface', 'Lauren and Susie', 'Stan and Froggy', 'Amy and Kirandeep'. These double acts are always the same though, one's the sarcastic angry one and the other one is fun-loving and carefree- and sometimes a bit dim.

Something I've noticed lately is dinosaurs. They crop up an awful lot, sometimes as characters, main or supporting, sometimes just lurking in the background or on packaging. I've always been a fanatical sort of a person and the first thing I was crazy about was dinosaurs (see tiny photo of me and Dad-Y and dinosaur book!)

Comedy is so important to me when it comes to literature. Are any of my favourite books not comedy? Only one of those books is non-fiction and it's Harpo Marx's autobiography, I don't really think that counts against me!