and/inker. Drawing comics is the only thing I ever
wanted to do since the day before my fifth birthday.
That was the day I realized that people drew comics
for a living and they got to draw comics all day. After
that I wasn't the same. I grew up with different
heroes than the other kids. While they wanted to be
like Joe Namath, Pete Rose or even Davy Jones, I
wanted to be like my heroes in comics--not
Spider-Man and the like -- I wanted to be the next
Joe Kubert, Bob Kane and Jack Kirby.
So since then I've spent every spare moment with
pencil in hand. By the time I was out of high school I
realized that my style wouldn't really fit in the
mainstream comic market; it was a little too
cartoonish for it. So I thought instead about a
newspaper strip or animated studio. After a few
more years I had an EPIPHANY -- why couldn't I
draw comics superheroes in a cartoon way -- Batman
with a HB twist if you will? In the years to come,
working with other people in an APA
(Amateur Press Alliance) I belong to, and S-Tapa
(Super- team apa), I learned the joys of becoming a
inker/embellisher.
And now after finishing Joe Kubert's World Of
Cartooning inking course I feel it's time to try to
make my dream come true. Now I live in the best of
both worlds, getting a chance to ink over other
peoples more realistic style and drawing my own
funny books. Can life get any better than this? Well, I
could make a living doing this and quit my
lame day job, so if you have any input, good or bad,
please email me and let me know if I'm just kidding
myself or do I have the right stuff to
make it.
COMIC CON
