I make comics.
FROM COMIC STRIPS TO A GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES
I’ve been reading and drawing comic strips since I was little. I would save newspaper clippings of comics I loved and collected all the comic strip books I could get my hands on, dreaming of one day having my own syndicated comic strip. Comics are the best because they bring all my skills to bear: writing, design, composition, illustration, coloring and lettering. What I do not enjoy is how much time they take to create. I now have at least three fully developed stories fighting for space in my head and butting up against the spare time I have to realize them on the page.
STUDIO: Personal Project
ROLE: Creator, Writer and Illustrator
PREY.
Prey is a fantasy story of swords and sorcery where all the characters are forest animals. I’m not entirely clear on where this story came from, I just know I had the spark of an idea that grew and grew into a full-on inferno and my job was to get it out and tell the story. And there’s a lot of it rattling around in my head too.
For a while, I was publishing a page a week to my website preycomic.com in my spare time, but I lost my home studio when we did a full renovation to our basement and my daughter decided she wanted my studio as her bedroom. Two years later my desk is in the dining room, my studio is in boxes and the renovation is still ongoing. I am so looking forward to completing the renovation of my home studio so I can get back into working on this story.
Atlas Security Squad
A sci-fi series of mini-comics about kids and their robots on a space station trying to protect it against organisms of malicious intent.
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When I was attending General Assembly and learning full-stack web development I created a short series of comic strips about a disgruntled otter who codes. This is not an ongoing series, just a couple of fun ideas turned into comic strips.
Small Arms Studios is the tiny independent publishing company I created to publish my comics under. As a designer, I have to make a logo for everything. It’s part of the contract, right?