I gave my life to creating long ago, in many forms. My main passion is for telling stories and making art which illustrates them...or, the other way around. I have written plays (some produced), illustrated plays, novels, graphic novels, storybooks, novels/graphic novels, and most any other format you can imagine.

My greatest influences include Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", "Carrie", "Rebecca", "Marnie", "Psycho", "The Birds", "Dogville", "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?", "The Night of the Hunter", vintage jazz, from 1920s-60s, silent films (the lost 1927 film "London After Midnight" is a personal favorite), black-and-white photography, expressionism, dysfunctional families and relationships, evil mother figures, girls in long white dresses, detectives, and forbidding, Gothic mansions.

With that said, I held off making a "comic" per se because I have no interest in making the type of comic which has always been popular. I am not into superheroes, superhuman powers, other worlds, or, least of all, science fiction. I just wanted to try my hand at telling a story like those I enjoy most...a suspenseful mystery, with psychological overtones, a vintage setting, quirky characters, and lots of tension-ridden scenes, all presented in the format of an old, damaged filmstrip.

And so I created my first web comic, "Bad Medicine", with sketches and photos and all kinds of photography tricks which allowed me to feel like a kid of ten again, playing with action figures.

Please feel free to offer comments or just say hello. I know very few creative people of my type in the area where I live. In fact, I know very few creative people anywhere.