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Leonard Cachola was born and raised in Houston, TX. After graduating from high school in 1990, he attended the University of Houston, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in studio art. In the summer of 1998, after returning from three months of world travelling through Europe and the Philippines, he moved to Los Angeles and attended the Royer Studios' Animation Institute of Los Angeles' one year vocational training program in animation. He is currently working as a production artist.

His favorite hobbies include sketching in clubs and bars, reading banned texts, swing dancing into other people, taking pictures and hanging out with gang members, driving off various cliffs and bluffs, staring blankly at his computer for hours on end and experiencing the world that is Southern California.

His artistic and writing influences include but are by no means limited to (not in any order and by no means a full list):

  • Hayao Miyazaki (Kiki's Delivery Service and My Neighbor Totoro)
  • Japanese animation: Robotech, Star Blazers
  • The wonder that is nature
  • Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes)
  • Berkeley Breathed (Bloom County)
  • Arthur Adams (Comic book artist)
  • Frank Miller (Comic book writer/artist)
  • Alan Moore (Comic book writer)
  • Rob Reiner (When Harry Met Sally, Princess Bride, This is Spinal Tap)
  • Walt Disney / Disney Feature (Alice in Wonderland, Beauty and the Beast)
  • Chuck Jones (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck)
  • Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide)
  • Neal Stephensen (Snow Crash, The Diamond Age)
  • Literature from the fiction section of my favorite bookstore
  • California, Texas, Europe, Philippines, Thailand
  • Family, Friends, co-workers, enemies, acquaintances
  • Games (Chess, Yahtzee, Poker, Monopoly, Battleship, Trivial Pursuit, and many more)
  • Work
  • Architecture
  • Technology
  • Science
  • Transportation
  • Quake 3 and the [poop] anti-clan

 
  • Grrl music (Team Dresch, Sarge, Sleater-Kinney, The Reputation)
  • Power Pop, alternative rock, post punk music, indie rock (Beatles, Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, Big Star, The Velvet Underground, The Replacements, XTC, REM, The Posies, F*ck, Barenaked Ladies, The Cure, New Order, Depeche Mode, They Might Be Giants, Moxy Fruvous, Cub)
  • Jazz, Big Band, Swing, Blues, Jump Blues, and Oldies music. Plus: a hint of Folk, Celtic and Bluegrass
  • John Lassetter (Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2)
  • Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr. Strangelove)
  • Classic films (Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Chinatown, It's a Wonderful Life)
  • International films (Kristof Kieslowski's Trois color trilogy, Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring, Akira Kurosawa films)
  • Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game)
  • Brad Bird (The Iron Giant)
  • Sports (Basketball, Football, Baseball, Bowling, Tennis)
  • Computer Games (SimCity, Quake, Black and White)
  • The Media (Newspaper, Radio)
  • Museums
  • Photojournalism
  • Economics
  • Politic
  • Testicular cancer

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