I graduated as valedictorian of the Savannah College of Art & Design in 2003 with a degree in Sequential Art. After graduating, I moved to Portland, Oregon and realized that I needed to relearn everything I learned in school.
Since then I’ve been freelancing as an illustrator and cartoonist. Some of my clients include the Asian Reporter, Hollywood Entertainment, Hyphen Magazine, Fantagraphics Books, the Willamette Week, the Portland Mercury, the Spokane Inlander, the Viet Nam Literature Project, the Seattle Metropolitan, mun2 [a subsidiary of NBC Universal], Tugboat Press, and Powell’s City of Books.
My work has been published in the second volume of the acclaimed BEASTS! book published by Fantagraphics Books, the comics anthology Popgun 2, published by Image Comics, the I Saw You… anthology, published by Three Rivers Press [an imprint of Random House], as well as numerous other small press collections.
My first graphic novel, Americus, which was illustrated by me and written by MK Reed, was just published by First Second Books. It’s been picked as an ABC New Voices 2011 title, and was nominated by the YALSA for a 2012 Best Graphic Novel for Teens award.
The first chapter was published in the Papercutter comics anthology and was nominated for an Ignatz Award.
There is a handy wiki entry on me at the Wikivietlit that includes a pretty complete list of published works and some write-ups and mentions online. It’s a little old, and only has stuff written pre-Americus. Check it out here.
I’m always looking for new work and challenges, so if you’d like to hire me, please drop me a line.
