“The Dreams of a Super-Hero” Test Panel for my Comc
When I was 5years old I began to draw, I drew almost everyday and people noticed that I was into it. When I was 5 I saw an episode of Fairly Odd Parents that involved Super-Heroes and Comic Books I was really into it. In 1st Grade I was making my own Picture Books. In 3rd grade I read Captain Underpants obsessively and started making my own comics because of it I really was a big fan of it and I resonated with the writer. In 4th Grade I read my first REAL comic the Avengers by Lee and Kirby in a Dollar Store reprint and it was fantastic. In 5th Grade I read my first Manga BoBoBo-bo-bo-bo. I then made even more comics, some teachers liked it and some didn’t. in 5th Grade I made what I considered my greatest idea and it still around in my head and notebooks. in 6th Grade I read Kingdom Come and had access to more cool mature comics and other forms or writing from books to movies thanks to my local library. In 10th Grade I realized I wanted to work in Cartoons and animation and at 18 when I left High School it’s been hurdles and tip toes because I made the stupid decision to work as a cartoonist and now at 24 I don’t regret any of those hurdles and experiences.
That’s a one paragraph introduction to my life with comics, cartoons, and drawing. I’m 24 and still love them and I still draw. And at 24 I began work on my first ever Comic Book (which I plan to publish) The Death of Super-Star. I was inspired with the admiration and praise of peers and friends and the cool group of indie comic artists on Instagram and the Cartoonist Kayfabe fandom who all went through this same boat and came out with actual works, and you know what a lot of those beat out Marvel and DC in quality of writing and art.
Test Panel for my Comic
The journey to being a cartoonist and writer has and still is long and scary, I wanted to give up and sometimes it seemed like the only option. I tend to be a bit more stubborn then i tell myself because I never was one to throw the towel so easily. It is hard to do when it takes awhile for you to have all these ideas but constant writers block and personal hurdles. Sometimes you don’t like what you do and have no choice and well I actually wrote thirteen pages of Issue 1 then hilariously decided to start over the other week and while it’ just two pages I think it’s one hundred times better but now things are even slower but I think it’ll end up making a better story it’s all very exciting. Am I worried- maybe but I don’t think i made a mistake.
right now I’m just venting (thanks if you are still reading).
Panels from my Page 1 Rough
Death of Super-Star is a story about me, I had spent a long time trying to find the one comic idea to jumpstart my dream career and I finally did after reading two comics- Satan’s Soldier by Tom Scioli and Flex Mentallo by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely. Satan Soldier made me realize you can publish small independent books no matter the plot and Flex made me realize my first published comic should be a observation of myself.
Flex Mentallo 
Satan’s Soldier
Morrison was looking at himself when writing Flex Mentallo and through it I too saw myself. I realized that my first comic should be as personal as I can make it. Flex was (or at least I thought so) an autobiography of Morrison with a creation of his childhood(or Adulthood) so I too decided to make a story about a childhood super hero of my creation going through what I think I or even most of us went/am going through and he’s a super-hero too because that’s what i’m into.
Hope you dig that.
I felt 2020 would be a big year of change and I think it is, not just for the world but for me. I finally think i’m good enough to try to make a REAL comic and so I began work on it, a story about a super-heroes final week of super heroeing. There’s more to it then that but I’m not going to spoil my own story. You might have to wait awhile though.
With all that said and done I’m finding this to be quite an intense but educational journey. I’ve started reading novels again plus plenty of how to guides and books on Writing and Comics/Manga making to really understand what to do while still making it my own. I’m putting a lot of my soul into it so I hope it comes out beautiful no matter how long it might take or how bad it could be haha.
My plan is a 4-6 maybe even 12 issue or uh chapter- story in graphic novel form ready to read online for free but can be purchased in book form through, whatever way you do these things. Either way I’m hard at work with the comic now and drawing each page and idea, I hope you enjoy reading it when it’s out.
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Cartoonist's Man-Cave 