About

I created the fictional world of the Leitonese Empire when I was thirteen. It began with a teen-aged character named Tedrik Degustik and a tribe of vegetarian dragons. I wrote and drew their short adventure as a few dozen comic book pages that were so dominated by dialogue that I realized prose was the medium I worked better with. In college, I majored in art for one semester before dropping out to enlist in the army as a linguist. After the army, I returned to college, graduated with an engineering degree, and went to work. In my free time, I continued spinning my fictional universe while the Brominr family--spirited, corrupt, compromised, and indominable--replaced Tedrik Degustik as my favorite protagonists to write about. I wrote eight novels and eighteen short stories about them, completing the epic that I'd set out to tell about their triumph and fate.

Then, I stuffed all of that prose into a desk drawer (well, into a thumb-drive--but the thumb-drive went into that desk drawer!).

In the meantime, I found myself sketching again, dusting off (and improving) my long dormant skill. I wanted to know what my characters looked like, what their world looked like. Finally, I could resist the urge no more. I had to adapt my prose novels as graphic novels.

Five years later, I finished the adaption of The Rakshasha, book one of the The Seven Visions of Komishan, in which Uncle Brominr, "the Marshal", shows his niece that war is a picnic, but she learns the main course is human flesh.

I hope I can finish adapting the next six books in less than thirty years...!