FOR AS LONG AS I CAN RECALL, I’VE BEEN drawing and consuming and analyzing comics and ephemera.
THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, MY PASSION FOR DRAWING HAS GIVEN ME A TOUCHSTONE THAT HAS ALLOWED ME TO SURVIVE MORE THAN ONE CHALLENGING MOMENT IN MY LIFE.
AFTER SPENDING MY ADULT LIFE CREATING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DESIGNS FOR TEE SHIRTS, POSTERS, LOGOS AND MORE, I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A LUNG DISEASE.
MY DIAGNOSIS IN 2023 ESSENTIALLY ENDED MY ABILITY TO DO COMMERCIAL WORK. SINCE THEN, I’VE BEEN WORKING ON RECOVERING AND REDEFINING MYSELF CREATIVELY.
AS WITH OTHER TIMES IN MY LIFE, MY IDENTITY AS AN ARTIST WAS AN IMPORTANT PART OF MY SURVIVING AND DEFINING MYSELF.
MY POST-LUNG DISEASE STAGE IS WHAT I’M REFERRING TO AS “BIG BOT 3.0”. I’M PUTTING A GREATER EMPHASIS ON PERSONAL WORK AND STORYTELLING THROUGH ZINES AND COMICS.
MY ILLUSTRATION AND DESIGN WORK HAS ALWAYS BEEN INFLUENCED BY COMIC BOOK ART AND RETRO PRINTING PROCESSES. I’M EXCITED TO BE ABLE TO FOCUS ON PERSONAL WORK THAT FINALLY INTEGRATES EVERYTHING I DO INTO A COMPLETE PERSONAL PACKAGE.
THIS WORK HAS BEGUN WITH THE CREATION OF MY comic ZINE “RANT”. WITHIN THE PAGES OF RANT, I FOCUS ON A SUBJECT I’M INTERESTED AND EXPLORE IT WITH COMICS, WRITING AND GRAPHICS.
FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS I HAVE BEEN DEVELOPING A MEMOIR COMIC ABOUT MY DISEASE COINCIDING WITH MY WORK IN THERAPY and OVERCOMING CHILDHOOD PTSD AND ABUSE.
ABOUT ME
