Design Unexpected Possibilities

I'm a Graphic Designer/Artist based in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area. After earning my degree in Graphic Design from The Art Institute of Philadelphia in 2000, I began my design career at Dynamic Forces, Inc., one of the comic book and collectible industry’s top producers of limited edition and autographed memorabilia, comic books and lithographs. My early work focused on many of Marvel Comics’ most famous licensed products, including statues, busts, package designs and lithographs. I was promoted to Art Director 2007 and led the art department for Dynamic Forces and Dynamite Entertainment, a comic book publishing imprint founded in 2005 that grew from publishing two limited series per month to 20.

While at Dynamic/Dynamite I worked on many best-selling comic properties, including The Boys, The Shadow, Vampirella, Warlord of Mars, Bionic Man, Game of Thrones, and SEAL Team Six, as well as an extensive library of characters, such as Vampirella, Pantha, Evil Ernie, Smiley the Psychotic Button, Chastity, Purgatori, and Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt (from Warren, Harris Comics, Charlton, and Chaos Comics properties). I was privileged to work with some of the most high profile creators in the comics industry, including Alex Ross, Kevin Smith, Jae Lee, Garth Ennis, John Cassaday, Marc Guggenheim, Mike Carey, Jim Krueger, Greg Pak, Brett Matthews and Matt Wagner, and a host of up and coming new talent. Some of the titles I worked on have debuted in the Diamond Comics Distributors Top Ten lists, such as Alex Ross and Jim Krueger’s PROJECT SUPERPOWERS .

My work directly contributed to Dynamite receiving the 2005 Diamond Comic Distributors GEM Award for Best New Publisher and the 2006 and 2011 GEM Awards for Comics Publisher of the Year. Dynamite was also nominated for several industry awards, including the prestigious Eisner Award. I also had a major hand in the 2006 Spike TV Scream “Best Screen to Comic Adaptation” award winning title Army of Darkness, that was again no