As a small, demonic child, Roman Dirge used to draw all the time. What he drew caused a lot of worry in his parents and teachers, and Roman was told never to pursue a career in art, for his style was crude and he wasn't very skilled. Roman still continued to draw, and soon published 'Xenophobe', a low-budget magazine covering the San Diego arts ...
Enjoys taking children's tales and adding his own little macabre twist to them in his comics.
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Fact
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Caroline Thompson and Larry Wilson wrote an unused screenplay for the, later canceled, Lenore movie. Dirge's dislike of the screenplay was the main reason for cancellation. Caroline Thompson and Larry Wilson had worked previously worked together on The Addams Family (1991).
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He came up with his last name, Dirge, from Edgar Allen Poe's poem 'Lenore': "A Dirge for her, the doubly dead, in that she died so young."
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'Lenore' was picked up for a full-length motion picture by Sony Family Entertainment, but due to Roman's dislike of the idea, the project was scrapped.