Inaugural Post and Favorite Authors

While I did it later than I expected, here is my initial post into the wild world of experimental creative-writing-for-a-college-class blogging.
For the fans at home who are confused, this is for an Advanced Creative Writing class at William Paterson University.
Enjoy.

Cliff Notes: I'm Neal Ronaghan. I'm in my junior year at WPU. I'm an English (Writing) Major with a Philosophy Minor. Supposedly that means I have to go to grad school. I don't want more school. **** it. (Is it cool if I curse?) I work on campus as an STC (the people in the red vests who hand you print-outs) and I also work at Nintendo World Report as a Staff News Writer. While it escaped me at class last week, I actually am working a job where I write blogs. I'm a big fan of the Green Bay Packers. I wear pants occasionally. I live on campus. My Thursdays generally suck because I'm basically going from 9 AM to 9 PM (roughly) but this class should prove to be fun.

I believe we are supposed to start this off with some sort of profession of love for writers. My list will probably be a different one.
While I do enjoy a good novel every now and then, my favorite writers are generally of the graphic novel persuasion. In that sort-of-imaginary realm of not quite novel, not quite comic, there exists the graphic novel. My favorite author in that realm is Brian K. Vaughan who is currently a staff writer on Lost. My favorite work of his is Y: The Last Man. It is a story of a 20something slacker and his monkey who wind up being the last two males alive. I swear to God it's actually good. There's also Amazons, ninjas, pirates, politics, and an adventure that spans practically the entire world. It's really good stuff. Supposedly they're going to make a movie of it with Shia LaBeouf.
Brian K. Vaughan is also responsible for the equally awesome series, Ex Machina, which is about an ex-superhero who decides to become the mayor of New York City. Once again, I swear this is actually good.
I'm also a fan of a few other graphic novel/comic authors, but that's for another time.

As far as novels go, I'm a fan of Gregory McDonald's Fletch series, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Chuck Pahlaniuk (or however the hell you spell it), Offbeat Robert Ludlum, Offbeat Sports Fiction (Sparky Lyle's The Year I Owned The Yankees), The Harry Potter Series (a fan as far as I've read them all), and a bunch of other random books. This list is probably incomplete.

And Professor Quinlan, if you are reading this, I might have the oppurtunity to get an all-expenses paid trip to Los Angeles to go to a Guitar Hero press event. That would involve me missing a class on September 25th. Is that cool?