I have been a cartoonist for over twenty years working for my family's comic
book owned company where I have completed a dozen book publications as
well as cover designs/business ads/logos/shirts and various other works for
newspapers and local Illinois businesses.
Current strips and comic works in progress:
http://blitzhowser.the-comic.org/
http://thecritters.thecomicseries.com/
http://legaldef.thecomicseries.com/
Current and recent client work can be seen on my facebook album:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=125534&id=729935078&l=fa685a145a
Deviant art gallery:
http://nerwonduh.deviantart.com/
Guru profile with Client Reference and Resume:
http://www.guru.com/freelancers/ifcomics
My personal comic book company's site:
http://www.ifcomics.com
My specialty is cartooning/illustration with photography and graphic design as side
specialties.
I have been mostly working in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and various
other design programs for more than a decade.
My work leans heavily on the imaginative side as my influences are
cartoonist such as EC Segar (Popeye), Sergio Aragones (Mad Magazine,
Groo), Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes) Theodore Geisel (Dr
Suess), George Herriman (Krazy Kat) and multitude of others. I have
recently studied briefly at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
and stated earlier, self publishing books since 1991.
Special Skils
Mac OS, Windows 98+, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Works, Wordperfect, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Pagemaker, QuarkXpress, Dreamweaver, Photography (Digital/Manual)
2010 GradImages Tallahassee, FL
Photographer
• Close up head shoots of graduating students of local colleges.
2009 School of The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL
Digital Resource Assistant/Part time
• Digitalization (through scanning and photography) of books from the Joan Fasch Artists’ Book Collection and other digital projects
2008-2009 School of The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL
Photography Cage Worker/Part time
• Utilized customer service skill, lab monitoring, handing photographic equipment to students for individual use, mixing developing chemicals, minor in house graphic design
1991-Present Ink & Feathers Comics Streator, IL
Part time Graphic Design Artist
• Page layouts, Artist, Writer, Inker, Photographer, Pagination, Web Design
1993-1994 Star Newspapers Dwight, IL
Part time
• Opaque film negatives, stuffer, free lance photographer
Published Works
• Poster for National Guard’s Guardian Bear Project
• Logo Design for Ink And Feathers Comics
• Published art in Ink & Feathers Comics Publications: The Mask Conspiracy, The Crystal Skull Files, Escape in a Dirigible, Superlative Tales, The Magic Press
• Pagination/Graphic Design for In Search of the First Teddy Bear, Superlative Tales
• Photography for news publications: Herscher Press/Reddick Essex Courier, Streator Times Press, Ottawa Daily Times, The Paper, The HeartBeat
• Photography in publications for Ink & Feathers Comics: In Search of the First Teddy Bear, The Teddy Bear Conspiracies, Superlative Tales
• *Designed two websites: www.ifcomics.com, www.midwestcattledog.com
• Personal Websites:
Comic Book Company: www.ifcomics.com
Sequential Comic Work: http://blitzhowser.the-comic.org/
Freelance work: www.guru.com/freelancers/ifcomics
Comic Pinups and Photography: http://nerwonduh.deviantart.com/
Photography Only: http://afeinman.daportfolio.com/