Behold, the autobiographical comics I’ve been making off and on since 2005. I used to call them my Emo Comics. Some are serious, some are silly. Some of them are about me as a toddler, some of them are about being a parent, but most of them fall somewhere in between. Basically I am extremely awkward and incapable of being happy, but maybe my dumb misfortunes and insecurities will make you chuckle.
My newer stuff is available in print, while some of the older material is posted down below. If you need even more autobiography, visit the In Print and Minicomics pages.
Print Comics
Back in ye olde olden days of 2007, I was persuaded to shop my comics around to publishers by a guy I liked. I received a very nice rejection letter from one publisher, and no response from the others. The rejection letter suggested I self-publish, and that is the origin of Hearts & Stars #1. The only problem is that I was too shy at the time to actually distribute this thing, so here we are eighteen years later. Better late than never, right?? 24 pages.
Contents: Handwriting, Memorial Day, Nyquil, and more!
Comics from 2023 and 2024! Art is a little rusty in spots as I am drawing on the regular for the first time in years, but it’s never been good lol. 28 pages. Awkward crushes, social awkwardness, food poisoning, etc.
Contents: Hay Ride, ACAB, The Third Wheel, Hong Kong Buffet
Hearts & Stars #3
Coming soon! More material from 2023 onward, but mostly from 2025. 40 pages of pain.
Contents: Chambersurg Mall, Hourly Comic Day 2025, Ski Club, Lookout, Oh, Negative.
Hearts & Stars #4
Probably coming in early 2026! Aiming for about 40 pages.
Contents will include: Beanie Mania, In the Cards, Junk, OregaNO
Archive
Some old stuff that still holds up.
Thesis Comics
I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in creative writing in 2008. My thesis project was a collection of personal essays, half of them done in comic form. I was the first person at my school to make comics as part of the writing program, and I wound up being far from the last, as my school now offers a graphic novel writing course. Kind of cool.
Anyway, you can click below to read each story:
Roller Skates: A cheesy children’s novel set in the 1890s spurs me to become a librarian.
Senior Pictures: Trials and tribulations of an ugly teenager sitting for their senior pictures, ha ha.
Confirmation: My experience as someone who attended Catholic school, but didn’t really buy into organized religion.
The Mall: About my obsession with old shopping malls.
Shorties: Single-page comics and false starts that didn’t make the final cut. My Laura Ingalls Wilder costume, getting day drunk at the beach with my dad, etc.
Shorties
A whole bunch of single-page comics. The page formatting on Webtoon doesn’t really work for this material, so I’m reproducing them here, too. I made a ton of these, but many of them are too embarrassing to put here.
