Portfolio of Comic Books

My latest comic series "Close to Midnight" kept me very busy in my spare time. It was published bi-monthly in Rip It Up magazine in 2008 and 2009. You can view all the previously printed strips at the Close to Midnight site. The quality of the strip was vastly improved in print, but this was a fun Flash site to build with some extra info on the characters. I'm sure I'll visit Fred and Vicki again someday...

Close to Midnight

Blu Ray Poster		Blaggard Poster

Jessica Cover		Comma Cut		Tornado Page 1		Tornado Page 2		Tornado Pin-Up

Southern Tribe

In 1995 and 1996, I launched a professional superhero comic book series throughout New Zealand called Southern Tribe. I wrote, illustrated and self-published the series as an experiment to see if a mainstream story could do well in New Zealand. Southern Tribe ran for four bi-annual issues (with the unofficial end of Southern Tribe in an Armageddon Convention magazine in 1998, which I also did the cover for). The skills I learned by physically making the comic and the business management skills I developed are still serving me well today. Thanks to everyone who submitted Southern Tribe fanmail. I read every letter!

The story centres around a group of four genetically altered, psychically powered heroes living in the near future in New Zealand. They use their gifts to protect civilians from an army of terrorists that threaten to overrun the city of Auckland. As time progresses, the team faces the ones responsible for altering their DNA and discover that they are not the only ones who have been granted these gifts...

Click on the thumbnails below to see a larger image of the pages.

Southern Tribe #1		Southern Tribe #2		Southern Tribe #3		Southern Tribe #4		Armageddon Megazine '98