Bad Sounds I put out my first anthology, The Never Dead, in 2023. Bram Stoker Award winner Jeff Strand and Splatterpunk Award winner Christine Morgan were but two of the awesome contributors. This illustration was for the Patrick Lacey tale...

Southern Hospitality When I was a kid, growing up in rural areas on isolated army bases, i viewed trucks as those hardcore machines real working people had. I eventually owned one, and they’d probably be pretty handy in an apocalypse. That...

Splatterpunk Years ago, Splatterpunk magazine asked me to design their logo. I drew this, and they used it on everything from bookmarks to trade imprints. I also did most of the covers for their magazines and books, none of which they've...

Tumblers. Back in 2012, when I was in Austin, Texas, UK publishers This Is Horror reached out to me about doing an illustration for a short story titled "Tumblers" in one of their books. I had just finished all the illustrations...

The Masters of Horror. In 2014, Skin Art Magazine was doing a special horror issue. They asked me to draw a cover. I had my friend Blair Smith, the colorist on The Living Corpse comic, work his magic on my...

While I was at Deep Six, Paul Acker asked me to sketch character concepts for a horror movie by a new film company, Eye Sore Productions. He also wanted a logo sketch for the new company. The main character was a...

When Frank Miller was on a roll, and I eagerly picked up all his work (The Dark Knight, Daredevil: Born Again, Elektra Assassin-so many great works) I saw Hard Boiled and was instantly inspired by that punch-through-the-head scene! I used...

Monica, my wife, who died in 2008 in a hit-and-run that the cops initially blew off, was always my biggest supporter and greatest fan. She was a Colombian immigrant I met in NYC, and she stuck with me through...

Something about Santa never struck me as quite right. My parents are super Christian and. always told me he was fake, but were mad when I told all my middle-school classmates! Maybe it was all the angry calls they received. In my...

I was always fascinated by creatures like the Loch Ness Monster. They struck me as much more realistic than things like The Exorcist or satanic demons- evils that require you to buy into the whole Christian myth to fully embrace...