Dagon James

Dagon James is an artist living in New York City after having lived in London, England, various cities in California and Texas and having travelled the United States with the circus. In the late 1990s he worked steadily as an actor and model appearing in such magazines as Vogue, Paper, Surface and numerous others. His film credits include Tarnation directed by Jonathan Caouette, Eight directed by Sarah Bassine and nearly a dozen other short films and television commercials. In 2004, Dagon co-founded Lid Magazine with fashion illustrator and photographer, David Croland. Lid is an independent, glossy, arts magazine which is sold in boutiques worldwide. Contributors to Lid include Gerard Malanga, Billy Name, Paul Morrissey, Klaus Voormann, Sam Haskins, Baron Wolman, Adam Peters, Jason Banker, Joseph X. Burke, Fred Folsom, Leee Black Childers, Stephanie Chernikowski, Marisa Berenson, Abbey Drucker, John Mailer, Carl Fischer, Sam Fogarino, Christy Bush and Dustin Pittman. Outside of publishing, Dagon is the founder of The Music Group "The Last Night". On his mother's side, Dagon James is a direct descendant of Lyman Hall who was governor of Georgia from 1873-1874 as well as a signer of The United States Declaration of Independence. Another ancestor of note is Hortense Ward, also known as Hortense Sparks who was a champion of women's rights and social reform measures in the early 20'th century. In 1925, Hortense was appointed the first woman Chief Justice on the Texas Supreme Court as well as the first woman to vote in the state of Texas. Dagon is also related to Astronomer, Asaph Hall who discovered the two moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos. Dagon is the son of the singer/songwriter known as Cricket who was a fixture in the 1960s New York folk scene with his close friend, artist Fred Folsom. Cricket performed in the Greenwich Village "basket" clubs with the other folk singers of the day including Bob Dylan and Peter, Paul and Mary. Cricket died at the hands of a mugger who wanted his guitar on the streets of Hollywood, California. At the time of his death, he had a recording deal by RCA records and was in the studio [...] demo's for his first album. His only known recordings, a collection of demo's of original songs as well as a few standard's including Muleskinner Blues was recorded by RCA. Only 5, white label, test pressings were pressed making it a rarity. His father, (Dagon's grandfather) was Ronald Killette, also known as Buck Trail. He was a successful songwriter who scored a hit in 1968 with the song Girl Watcher which was recorded by The Okaysions and peaked at #5 on the Billboard pop charts.