About Me
I’m a thirty-eight year old freelance artist living in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. I’m from a Navy family and consequently grew up in various locations throughout the U.S., but I’ve lived in North Carolina for most of my adult life and call it home.
I studied philosophy at Davidson College, but finding the job market for professional philosophers somewhat lacking, I joined a rock band after graduation, made a record for an indie label, and spent a couple of years touring the Southeast in a Chevy van with a transmission that would occasionally, and without warning, burst into a cloud of smoky burnt transmission fluid.
In an effort to ward off practical pursuits for a few more years, I decided to return to school to study “Sequential Art” (an unfortunate term for cartooning and comic book art) at The Savannah College of Art and Design.
Since then I’ve been working as a freelance artist…
- My portfolio: www.trainedchimp.com
..published some comics…
- My most recent graphic novel, the 136-page historical fiction book published by SLG Publications (aka: “Slave Labor Graphics”), Midnight Sun
- My first full-length solo comic book: Farewell, Georgia
- My story “Count Stinkula: Hobo Vampire” is in Wide Awake Press #666
- My story “Toast” is in SPX 2004
- My story “Herding Cats” is in 24-Hour Comics Highlights
- Occasional contributions to the anthology “Strange Eggs” for SLG
…done some additional drawing…
…helped put together a non-profit comics-in-education advocacy organization…
- The National Association of Comics Art Educators: www.teachingcomics.org
…made several significant acquisitions…
- Cat
- Dog
- Home: Crackhouse
- Daughter
…and occasionally I do some teaching as well.
- The Sawtooth School for Visual Art www.sawtooth.org
