Greg Shchepanek

For the Love of Swamp Creatures Everywhere My weapon of choice is the pencil . I have been drawing with the pencil since I was a very small boy. Later I went onto my main choice of painting which is watercolour . But the pencil is still the base of the illustration . When I went to College I learned to draw with many pencils ' to create my illustrations .. . What ? There is more than the HB Pencil ?? One of my favourite subjects is the Swamp Monster or Creature from the depths of the swamp the living embodiment of that most wonderful wetland . I fell in love when I first saw the Man-Thing , he is now the base of my comic book collection . The very first character I ask my Mother to purchase for me when I saw him on the magazine shelf ... He forever battles with the evil that lurks on the planet ! He is big, menacing & strong. He is the most startling Swamp Creature of all ... Nobody dies forever ! The Man-Thing was Marvel 's response to the ever so pop...

 Great American Actor : Gregory Peck My Mother named me after the great American actor Gregory Peck   (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003).  He was one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s. In 1999, the  American Film Institute  named Peck among  25 Greatest Male Stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema , ranking him at No. 12 . So I can only rave about this man & his movie career. Peck first gained critical success in  The Keys of the Kingdom  (1944), a  John M. Stahl –directed drama which earned him his first  Academy Award  nomination. He starred in a series of successful films, including romantic-drama  The Valley of Decision  (1944),  Alfred Hitchcock 's  Spellbound  (1945), and family film  The Yearling  (1946). He encountered lukewarm commercial reviews at the end of the 1940s, his performances including  The Paradine Case  (1947) and  The Great Sinner  (...

 Swamp Creatures Ever since I was a wee boy I was totally fascinated & had a great love for the Swamp Creatures . Even before I could read I would tug on my Mother and tell her I need book and she would always fulfill my great need to have the precious treasure of the Swamp Monster books. It all started with a comic book of The Man-Thing Volume 1 back in 1974 , I was six years old, and my Mum bought it for me 💚 I have since lost that amazing comic book but I am pleased to say it will soon return to my collection since I have just purchased the famed said book eBay just yesterday and I am anxiously awaiting its arrival ... it has arrived and it is so very beautiful. Next purchase is House of Secrets #92 in 1971 when the   Man-Thing first appeared. The  Swamp Thing  is a fictional  superhero  in American comic books published by  DC Comics .  A humanoid/plant elemental  creature , created by writer  Len Wein  and artist...

 For my Mother ... she was born in 1946  My Mother , was born Cheryl Dawn Byce with ten other brothers & sisters in the small town of Chapleau, Ontario, Canada of Northern Ontario. She was my educator in life and my very best friend I had ever known. She was an amazing powerhouse in life and held down a job of Teacher's Aid @Centennial School here in Ottawa. But most of all her most important job was to raise me & my sister as my Father concentrated on work in our Nuclear Family . Me, I was conceived at Montreal Expo 67 and I was later born on June 17, 1968 making me a Gemini-Monkey and a Cheeky one at that. I can't believe the most beautiful life she gave me with pure love & support . She was the one to visit me @every workplace I had ever worked ... just to check out and see what was going in my life. When I was stressed & anxious she would settle me down with the words " Cool it ! and take it easy ." I still live by those words today ...