@JasonDeroga

Hey everyone, JasonDeroga from OmniLegend Tales here.

I'm a good friend of Matt Zimmer's, and I happened to meet him just as my two comic series were really taking off. I was in a bit of an uncomfortable place creatively at the time, and Matt (as well as many others, among them Lady Jess, who created the series "Promised Memories", which I highly recommend) was one of the anchors who guided me though my struggles.

Though Matt is critical of the art style in this work, I was immediately enamored when I read the first episode of Gilda and Meek and the Un-Iverse. Maybe it was the unique way he writes it, or maybe it's the super-cuteness of the character designs (Gilda and Bernadette are two flippin' adorable examples), but there's something really special about this story. The biggest thing is that "Gilda and Meek" actually challenged me to look at many things through a different lens; seriously, by the fourth or fifth episode I found myself challenging a lot of the viewpoints I'd been holding onto for most of my life, and given the real-life issues I was facing, to say that this series allowed me to "loosen up" would be a big understatement.

And along with challenging me to think differently about many things, "Gilda and Meek" also provided solid entertainment. Every character is so unique, you can almost FEEL them, for lack of a better word. From Gilda's determined mindset and strong values to Bernadette's surprisingly perception despite her age to the Pirahna's customary inquiries about light bulbs, it's hard to find a single character that's a carbon copy of another. Emotions are raw, moments of darkness are all-consuming, and soulmate love shines. And most of all, there is a common theme in the series as it pertains to prophecies, specifically depicted in Gilda's catchphrase: "Once You Know A Future Is Coming, You Can Change It."

As someone who discovered the concept of the "self-fulfilling prophecy" -- which had dogged me countless times in my youth from ninth to eleventh grade -- in college before graduating, I gotta say: that quote was a virtual lifesaver for me going forward. Who says comics don't teach you anything?

As I've told Matt countless times, there's something really special about "Gilda and Meek", so much that I usually word my praise as follows: "Gilda and Meek and the Un-Iverse is a comic so unlike any that I've read." In a time where so many people are feeling the fatigue of monotony in comics, if you're looking for something unique, something "avant-garde", something different from the status quo in comics these days (and I do mean STATUS QUO), this comic is a great place to start.

Hey! I'm new here, just call me JD.

I'm a hobbyist artist with a love for comics/graphic novels, been drawing 'em since elementary school. It took me a while to get my feet off the ground, but it was worth it when I won a PDF comic contract with a publisher (Alterna Comics, if anyone wants to know). The work in question that earned the contract was my first story, "Lil' Hero Artists", which I've brought here after parting with my publisher on good terms.

I'm trying to get as much exposure for this work as I can, not for fame or money, but simply because I'm so flippin' proud of it. I've got a huge backlog, but since I've got a great job that still manages to wear me out at the end of the day, I can't promise a consistent update schedule. Forgive me, but I'm a busy dude!

Anyway, hope you like my stuff, and I look forward to learning about all of you!

JD

https://globalcomix.com/c/lil-hero-artists