2018: YEAR OF THE COMIC Thank you for being a part of my storytelling journey! For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to write and illustrate my own stories. Thanks to the encouragement and support of family and friends, I’ve been able to create 15 books for young readers over the last…
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Get Free Comics – This Saturday!
The first Saturday in May is upon us, which means…FREE COMIC BOOK DAY! Swing by Dragons Keep this Saturday for free comics. I will be drawing pictures and selling books at the Provo location from 10am-Noon. See you there! Click for a complete list of Free Comic Book Titles.
HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
2014 has been my busiest year yet, and there’s still plenty to be done over the next week! Thanks for sticking with me and for supporting me and my work. It means so much to me to know that all the hours I’ve spent in my sketchbook and on the computer mean something to someone…
COMIC JAM #4
Last night was the fourth Comic Jam at Dragons Keep in Provo, Utah, and it was AWESOME! Each month we meet together as comics fans to make comics together. Rather than sitting to work on our own comics, we make collaborative pass-along comics with a new twist each month. September’s Challenge This month we created a 5-panel page….
LET’S MAKE COMICS TONIGHT!
Come Make Comics TONIGHT Community Comic Jam at Dragons Keep Join me tonight (September 17, 6-7:30pm) for the fourth comic jam at Dragons Keep in Provo! Each month we join together as students, families and comics-makers of all ages to make comics together. Each jam features a fun new challenge that turns comics into a…
COME MAKE COMICS!
Come Make Comics Community Comic Jam at Dragons Keep Join me this Wednesday night (September 17, 6-7:30pm) for the fourth comic jam at Dragons Keep in Provo! Each month we join together as students, families and comics-makers of all ages to make comics together. Each jam features a fun new challenge that turns comics into…
SALT LAKE COMIC CON 2014 RECAP
The Greatest Comic Con in the World! Stan Lee himself said it and I couldn’t agree more: Salt Lake Comic Con was “the greatest Comic Con in the world”! I’ve been participating in conventions, symposiums, festivals and fairs related to books and comics for the last four or five years and this year’s Comic Con…
BATMAN COMIC JAM
To celebrate the very first Batman Day (and the character’s 75th anniversary) yesterday, I hosted a special comics jam at Dragons Keep in Provo, Utah. 40 comics-lovers showed up to make their own Dark Knight pass-along comics and the results were amazing. Rules of the jam: 1) Cut out a panel from an existing Batman comic…
Zombie Haiku
Last Saturday was a great day, and it all started with the Zombie Apocalypse at the Provo Library. Okay, okay, so it wasn’t a real zombie apocalypse, but horror authors Jonathan Maberry and Susan Beth Pfeffer sat down for brunch with students of the Provo School District, then fielded texts from the audience. I may never…
FREE COMIC BOOK DAY IS HERE!
Free Comic Book Day is tomorrow, Saturday May 5! Free Comic Book Day is a single day – the first Saturday in May each year – when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world give away comic books absolutely free to anyone who comes into their stores. Find a comics shop near…
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