March 12th, 2025
You can say a lot of things about Eric and I (and we’ve heard it all, knock it off!), but you can’t say we don’t try big things!
When I was a kid, I promised myself that when I made my own comic, I would do it the “right way”: with paper and pencils and ink, and I would do everything.
That’s how I made my first graphic novel, The Weirdos, along with blood, sweat, tears, anxiety, adrenaline, a complete lack of experience and a certain naïveté.
I drew it all on giant sheets of watercolor paper (because I had big dreams of coloring the comic with paint!), went to my local FedEx to scan every single page by hand, and used an old computer to do the rest.
The result was nothing less than art, an absolute expression of who I was at the time: a newly sober person who had to start deconstructing and then rebuilding himself the right way after completely changing (and saving) his life. It looks like nothing else on the shelf, because it was made by me, and I am nothing if not a weird little outsider with little talent, a lot of passion, and a heavy heart.
On May 10th, 2025, we’re going to be doing an art gallery at Mind’s Eye Comics in the Burnsville Mall; you’ll be able to see all the pages as they are, the purest expression of what I created from 2018 to 2020, when The Weirdos: Volume I was released.
Eric and I really believe in the value of art and comics and community, and this event is just the latest expression of those deeply held beliefs. We’ll have coffee and snacks and top shelf conversations. Come hang out and celebrate the idea of getting better through art with us.
The Den 