Influences

Chris Dee and Cat-Tales influences from fiction, non-fiction, movies, television and other media:

Comics:  Doug Moench, Jeph Loeb, Geoff Johns, Devin Grayson, Bob Kane, Alan Brennert, Len Wein, Karl Kesel, Brad Meltzer, Dick Giordano, Harlan Ellison, Jim Aparo, Joe Staton, George Freeman, Tom Mandrake, Bill Finger, Alan Davis, Tim Sale, Jim Lee, Michael Bair, Ty Templeton, Marv Wolfman, Gerry Conway, Chuck Dixon, Grant Morrison (1997 only)

Fiction:  Jane Austen, P.G. Wodehouse, E.F. Benson, Simon Brett, Umberto Ecco, Kazuo Ishiguro, Daphne Du Maurier, Margaret Atwood, Arthur Golden, Dominick Dunne, Agatha Christie, Choderlos de Laclos, Paul Gallico

Television/Movies: J. Michael Straczynski, Aaron Sorkin, Alfred Shaughnessy, Jeremy Paul, John Hawkesworth, James Goldman, Joss Whedon, Sam Hamm, Warren Skaarenl, Daniel Waters, Kenneth Branagh, Rita Rudner, Martin Bergmann, Paul Dini, Michael Tolkin, Akira Kurosawa, Christopher Hampton, Ronald D. Moore, Brannon Braga, Hilary Bader, Alan J Adler, Vanessa Greene

Non-Fiction:  Richard Feynman, Brian Greene, Stephen Birmingham, Dennis Miller, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Joseph Campbell, David E. Jones, Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Theatre:  Wendy Wasserstein, James Lapine, Stephen Sondheim, David Mamet, Tom Stoppard, Howard Ashman, Alan Mencken, David Spencer, Christopher Hampton

Games:  Nick Sagan (Zork Nemesis)