Adventures in Comic Strips
My illustrious comic strip career began at my highschool newspaper, "Arvo's Parts." My first comic strip was a 'Lil Orphan Annie parody entitled, "Orphan Annie."
Arvo's Part's was my highschool's first and only school newspaper. Front page articles included hard hitting subjects such as misspellings in Berkeley High's newspaper. The paper regularly printed my comic strips, panel gags, and illustrations of Arvo Part. I wrote a science column, an anagram section and a puzzle corner as well. A total of six issues were put out before the newspaper collapsed.
Youth Outlook!
My work on Arvo's Parts prepared me well for my first professional cartooning job at "Youth Outlook," a monthly newspaper put out by Pacific News Service. I currently work for them as a freelance cartoonist and illustrator. Although at most newspapers, copy is the priority, YO! has been extremely generous with space, letting me print full single or even double page comics.
Powerstudents
I currently have a semi-monthly strip running at powerstudents.com. For the first time, the complete run of my powerstudents strips thus far is available online. It is the first and only work I have done in color.
Bus Stop
I also had a weekly strip running every Tuesday in the San Francisco Examiner. "Bus Stop" was a throwback to the old adventure-detctive strips where each new installment ended on a frustrating cliff hanger. "Bus Stop" was a very different strip and I am grateful to The Examiner and Pacific News Service for taking a chance on me.
Fleep
After The Examiner changed ownership, Bus Stop was discontinued. However, I quickly found a new job at "Asian Week" making a comic called "Fleep". "Fleep" is another serial strip and I believe it is my best one so far.