Patrick Farley
Interviewee and Artist

Patrick Farley is a freelance illustrator and web page designer who currently focuses on film work. He actually studied cinema in college, but he preferred creating comic books. The name of his original website (now defunct), www.e-sheep.com paid homage to science-fiction author Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the basis for Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner. Farley plans to resuscitate his site with the name www.electricsheepcomics.com soon.

Farley was cited in Scott McCloud's Reinventing Comics as a pioneer of the webcomics form. On his website, he was the author of a variey of strips. Among them, The Guy I Almost Was is an autobiographical graphic novel. The Spiders was a war hi-tech storyline. Delta Thrives, featured in Adventures Into Digital Comics was an expanded canvas style webcomic where the readers had to scroll along many feet to follow the entire story. Farley used many 3D tools such as Poser and Bryce to develop his sci-fi universe.

However, his most famous work remains Apocamon (also shown in the film) a retelling of the Book of Revelation in the Pokemon school with an extravagant writing style. The first episodes of the strip allowed Farley to full experiment the potential of Flash for the webcomics form, whereas the more recent episodes where done in a more conventional way.

One can only hope that after his cinema adventures, Farley will come back to the webcomics field. Farley appears in Adventures Into Digital Comics.