I met Nik at a Tower Records in the mid
1990’s, the go to place for a job for
musicians, artists and those who loved the
freedom of the relaxed dress code. Tower was
one of my all-time favourite places to work,
a haven or an enabler to those of us who
collecting toys, magazines and obscure music
were a part of our daily life. He was a
coworker of my best friend and spiritual
muse Heather Oswald in which the 3 of us had
many fun adventures. Foggy beaches
and cemeteries come to mind. I remember
visiting Nik when he lived in Colma, a city
just north of San Francisco, that was
literally a city of Dead. It boasted more
graves then living people and in fact is
where most of San Francisco was re-buried
when developers moved many of the original
cemeteries in the city itself.
He is funny and fascinating and I am so
excited that he took me up on offering his
works and words for my blog. I still have
all the little wacky and weird gifts he
would always bring me when we’d hang out,
lunch boxes full of spooky ephemera and
vintage findings that still make it into my
pieces today. I am over the moon at his
success which I find most inspiring, a true
story of artistic success that is so rare
these days.
How do you describe what you do?
I'm a fulltime artist and illustrator; I've
done over 250 shows and have sold over 3,000
pieces of art. My web comic Mosquito and
Spider (http://www.scary-art.com/Mosquitoandspider.htm)
was featured in the Cartoon Museum's
Monsters of Webcomics show. I also work on
movies, I won an audition to be Milla
Jovovich's sketch artist for a film called
Clocktower and you can see my Scream Serpent
in Scream 4. I produce art books, zines and
graphic novels (http://www.scary-art.com/scaryartpublishing.htm)
and am a regular contributor to
WordPlayThursday, Save the Bedbugs and
Shlocksuckers. I've shown my work everywhere
from adult boutiques to the Moss Library in
Norway to The Mutter Museum and you can
catch me regularly every 3rd Tuesday at
Kaleid Gallery's Two Buck Tuesday in
Downtown San Jose.
How do you receive your inspirations?
When I was growing up in the Bay Area I
watched a TV show called Creature Features
with Bob Wilkins religiously. I was always
interested in monsters, dragons and haunted
houses and the movies screened on Creature
Features only cemented that there was
something else. Monsters existed in a broken
reality. They were the things that shouldn't
be there but they were. And so my
inspiration comes from speculating what
could be there in the dark.
When did you first notice your
connection to the Spirit World?
My family was never religious so I sought
out spirituality, even joined a punk rock
church. I knew there was something out
there, something undefined but I could never
put my finger on it. I was even a tour guide
at the Winchester Mystery House just trying
to get close to them. There were little
omens that came out of gumball machine
prizes, there was always a safety net under
me in life. There have been so many times I
could have been homeless or dead yet after
losing everything again and again somehow
everything became right. I was very good
about making bad decisions but in the end
there was always an invisible wall to myself
destruction. I studied the new age, quantum
physics, and philosophies only to come to
the conclusion that I'm no closer to
understanding it than anyone else. There are
spirits and they speak in subtlety. I've
accepted that they're never going to pop out
and go "Booga booga!" but I know they're
there every time I have a thought hammering
at me.
If you feel comfortable, can you share
your faith or path with us?
I think we exist so that god is consciously
aware of itself. Imagine if god was glass
and we shattered it into a million pieces,
each piece is a part of god and the physical
world. One of the reasons we're always aware
of a spiritual side is because we're
enveloped in it. And it's legion. It's
peace. It's unfathomable filled with spirits
both holding on and letting go of their
egos.
How does this faith/path express
itself through your art?
You know those movies about the psychic
shouting at the dead, telling them one at a
time? In my head, in my soul they're all
talking at once and they don't shut up
unless I push them all out in canvas, even
cartoonish. It's kind of a reluctant
symbiotic relationship. I think creativity
is the other side trying to get through,
even just to say "It's going to be ok"
How can you be contacted about your
work from interested collectors? 
http://www.scary-art.com/nicolascaesarshop.htm
http://www.hyaenagallery.com/scaryart.htm
Nicolas Caesar was the curator and one of the artists for Scream 4. His webcomic Mosquito and Spider was a selection for the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco. His work is collected internationally.
Shop now!
http://www.scary-art.com/nicolascaesarshop.htm
http://www.hyaenagallery.com/scaryart.htm
Mosquito and Spider - Daily
http://www.scary-art.com/Mosquitoandspider.htm
Danson with Wolves every Friday!
http://iwasmadeinkorea.com/danson-with-wolves/
Other places you can get my work:
http://www.gallerysevven.com
https://www.facebook.com/psychodonuts
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Funhouse-Gallery-Detroit/119535524795776
http://www.hyaenagallery.com/scaryart.htm
Nicolas Caesar was the curator and one of the artists for Scream 4. His webcomic Mosquito and Spider was a selection for the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco. His work is collected internationally.
Shop now!
http://www.scary-art.com/nicolascaesarshop.htm
http://www.hyaenagallery.com/scaryart.htm
Mosquito and Spider - Daily
http://www.scary-art.com/Mosquitoandspider.htm
Danson with Wolves every Friday!
http://iwasmadeinkorea.com/danson-with-wolves/
Other places you can get my work:
http://www.gallerysevven.com
https://www.facebook.com/psychodonuts
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Funhouse-Gallery-Detroit/119535524795776
I thought that painting looked familiar!!