Comic Books

Ziegfried The Wonder Struedel

My first experience creating a comic book was in the first grade.  I folded a small stack of paper in half and illustrated my own storyline to the cartoon “Star Blazers”.  At 7, I couldn’t draw people worth a damn, but I did alright drawing that WWII battleship flying through space, so the entire comic book consisted of drawings of the ship with word balloons coming from it.  I really wish I still had it.

During my freshman year in high school, I created a comic book called “Delta Factor”.  It was a typical post-apocalyptic mutant superheroes in tights kind of thing.  Chalk it up to reading Uncanny X-Men and watching Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone too many times.

A panel from the comic "Honey".

In late 1992, I co-created a comic zine called Pocket Lint.  It consisted of short illustrated stories from a variety of local comic book writers and artists.  I developed three ongoing stories for the book: “Edgar, The Eternity Maniac”, “Minor Gods” and “Ziegfried The Wonder Struedel”, as well as a few one-shots (see one of them here).  We published the first issue in January 1993, but could never get a second issue together.

Between 1999 and 2000, Christian Klusman and I created a comic book called “Honey”.  It was the story of two women traveling across the deep south in an 18-wheeler.  We billed it as “Smokey and the Bandit meets Foxy Brown“.  We put out two issues of a six-issue story arc before we ran out of funding.  We’re currently in discussions to adapt the storyline into a feature film.  Read more about Blonde Fetus Comics here.

“Honey” received write-ups in 14 newspapers when it premiered in 1999.  Read one of them, a feature interview in the Allentown Morning Call.