What drew you into making/wanting to make comics?

I was working in the video games industry for a while then transitioned to animation and films, but something in me always wanted to write as well, not only draw. That got me into making my current graphic novel. There were things I always wanted to be vocal about but don't know how to express myself in, in terms of media. I found that place in making comics.

ahhhhhhhh, I see what you did there ;)

A loooooooong time ago when I was a WEE lad, I had a good friend who was very into comics. He started making his own. I was surprised we could create comics ourselves, so I joined him with a very childish Batman-esque style, but more like... with hot dogs and other food.

ANYWAY, years later, he started up a new series(it's not online ;( ) and I made my own(monkey see, monkey do) that went along side of his. I wanted to make the series into an animation one day, so I became an animator... but... I wasn't super great at it...even though I worked for actual studios....

I felt like I wanted to make my own standalone series so I could do his series justice one day, but animation is VERY time consuming and hard work. Making online comics is hard too...but I found it more comfortable... so ...here we are. "Kenny the Curse" was made and I haven't looked back...well.. maybe a lil... but.. I'm still moving forward!!!!

I published my science fiction literary novel Ancient Illumination in 2016. I was advertising in Locus and Asimov's magazines which are science fiction and fantasy focused magazines for literary works so I figured that would be the best place to buy ad space. However, I was not getting at least the money invested into ads back each month. When my wife and I moved back to the continental US in Baltimore for the Virgin Islands I decided to buy a table in artist alley at Baltimore Comic con in 2017 since the table costed the same as my monthly cost for a quarter page ad in Asimov's.

I had only one book at the time, but I nearly tripled the table fee in three days at the event. I was extremely happy but kept hearing the same sentiment repeatedly as I kept going to other shows. Often people would approach my table because I had concepts drawn up of various characters from the book and would ask "Where's the comic?". Each time I would explain that there was none I only write books. Some would add that "The story sounds cool, but if I'm being honest, I'm not reading 300 pages. Can you draw it for me?"
Had I only heard this a few times I could have ignored it, but this happened a significant number of times to the point where I simply had to find a way to make the illustrated version of my book happen or risk losing out on some readers. Problem is that I have absolutely no skills as far as drawing is concerned. Luckily a couple years later an artist caught my wife's eye, and she advised me to check out his stuff. I did, we linked up a few weeks later and have been creating graphic novels and comics based on my books since 2019. I have since expanded into the fantasy genre and worked with other artists to create concepts, art prints and other things in addition to the illustrated expansions of my two universes.

love to draw, and it just became the logical evolution of that