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 | | (Artist - Sonic the Hedgehog; Sonic X) | |  | |  Ever since I was little, I knew that I wanted to create comics. In high school I probably spent more time drawing my own projects than working on schoolwork. I entered SCAD in 1997 with the goal of creating a comic strip for syndication in daily newspapers. I did a strip while in SCAD called "Life in the Fast Lane" which ran for a while in SCAD's "Georgia Guardian" newspaper. Of course, syndicated cartooning is a monumentally difficult thing to do professionally, and I soon turned my efforts toward comic books. I interned at Zylonol Studios here in Savannah and learned a bit about the computer coloring aspect of the comic biz, and through them, I got a few freelance illustration jobs doing art for White Wolf Publishing's "Exalted" role playing game books.
Having busted my hump for 4 years, I was a little burned out after school, but a few years later, I wound up doing caricatures for Fasen Arts at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. A job I would recommend only to those who really, really love working with the public. After my short stint there, I moved back to Savannah to work with my friend Nate Bowden, a gifted storyteller, on a self-published comic book entitled "Nate and Steve," a book about Nate, a hard driving, wise cracking cartoonist, and Steve, a telekinetically powered computer animator and their strange adventures at SCAB: The Southern College of Art and Business. We took "Nate and Steve' to conventions and sell the books at nateandsteve.com. Our good friend Ross Campbell, who was working with Tokyopop, directed an editor to our website, and this eventually got us a contract to do work with Tokyopop ourselves.
After a long creative process, we began production on "Riding Shotgun," a tale of two brash young hitmen trying to make it big in the legalized assassination business. The first volume was released in July, 2006 and the second volume was released in January, 2008. While promoting "Riding Shotgun" and "Nate and Steve" at a convention in 2005, I made a connection that led to my dream job of working with Archie Comics on the Sega licensed property, "Sonic the Hedgehog", "Sonic X.", and their newest I've always been a Sonic fan and have wanted to draw the book since I first read it when I was 13, and I have now worked with Archie Comics for five years. I’ve drawn over 72 issues on all three Sonic books, plus covers for most of the issues I’ve done and I got to write 3 issues of Sonic X and I’m slated to write a 4 issue arc of Sonic Universe that will come out in 2011. | | | | | | | | |
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