Update 12-20-2008: Hey everyone come check out my webcomic Strange City Heroes at http://www.strangedrawingsartgallery.com



Update 3-3-2008:I have not been here in quite a while but I miss it. I'm just stopping by to say that I started a comic book blog called I read Comic Books and you can find it here http://ireadcomicbooks.blogspot.com/

Thanks!!!!
Kevin P. johnson

Update 3-18-2007: Currently adding a list of Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks that I recommend below. This will be updated over time.

Update 3-8-2007: If anyone cares I've updated my pull list as of the March 2007 Previews

Update 2-14-2007: So I kinda droped the superhero idea and am currently writing a new script for a different comic its more in the indie vibe I guess we will see how it goes I hope to get drawing soon, two full pages are written and hopefully the first draft will be done this week. I may make some print versions if I like what happens but as of this time I am only planning on a ComicSpace release.

Update 2-5-2007: Currently working on a comic to be released on Comic Space...just starting character development and 1st story line, it will be superhero type stuff with a little bit of everything thrown in.


Bio-Type Stuff
Why am I here? The answer is Uncanny X-Men #170 and I'll get to that later on.

My dream is to someday either work in the comics business or at least self publish my own comic book. I tried this once but failed I just could not get the art good enough and I could never allow myself to publish something I did not like.

I first started reading comics as a young child or the funnies as they used to be called in the newspapers. I liked Beetle Bailey and Peanuts, Andy Capp and quite a few others. I remember a collection of old Looney Tunes character comic books my grandparents had these were probably from the 1960's or early 1970's...I wish I had them today. These characters laid the groundwork for what I enjoy today.

At age 12 around June of 1983 there was a mistake made by the United States Postal Service...the one mistake that changed everything I ever knew about comics, the mistake that made me fall in love with characters that are heroes and villains in my imagination. The mistake was that someone in New Orleans, Louisiana on Painters Street had a subscription to the Uncanny X-Men from Marvel Comics and it was delivered to my grandparents house by accident. For some reason they gave it to me, maybe because I was there or maybe because of fate but issue #170 of The Uncanny X-Men was in my hands and this began my journey into comic books. For those of you who don't know this issue is when Storm fought Callisto of the Morlocks and defeated her making Storm the leader of the Morlocks. I eventually lost the issue and it took me quite a few years to come across another copy of this comic I probably have 3 or 4 copies now including a CGC Graded 9.6 copy (Although I cracked the case and have to get that fixed) it is one of my most prized possessions.

So I really got into comics at age 13 and Made Mine Marvel for the most part. I remember comics were .75 cents - .80 cents with tax so I started snagging my lunch money for comics...I was a kid and Spider-Man was more important that school lunch for sure. We had no Comic Book store in the town of Violet, Louisiana where I lived at that time (which was eventually destroyed by Hurricane Katrina years later) so I had to buy my comics off of spinner racks at the K&B Drug Store or Time Saver gas station, Winn-Dixie or even the old Hi-Lan Food Store. I loved Marvel Comics and that has love has remained until today.

Eventually I found out about a place called The BookWorm of New Orleans East and it was the most awesome place in the world to me but it was about 30 miles from where I lived so I was almost never able to go there. I started stopping in there a few years ago as an adult ocassionally just because of my memories of going there as a kid and the management was always so great. I don't know his last name but Terry was an awesome guy who lit up when he talked about comics and I miss that. Hurricane Katrina took his store from us all and I hope that he will re-open someday.

So at somepoint between the time I moved from Violet, Louisiana to Slidell, Louisiana I found an add in a comic book for a place called New England Comics in Brockton, MA and they promised guaranteed comics in NM condition and a free bag and board this was my answer to not haveing a Comic Shop near my home...my comics came to my door. It wasn't as awesome as the comic shops always seemed to me but it was a great way to know what I wanted would be there for me. I used New England Comics for several years until I actually quit reading comics...I started college and had no money and of course I was upset with all the gimmick costly covers coming out in the early 1990's late 1980's so I went to college in 1992 and stopped collecting comics about 98% not because I didn't still love the characters and the stries just had other things that needed to be done.

I guess it was 1999 or 2000 when I decided I wanted to get back into reading X-Men comics again and so I made a trip out to the Old Book Worm and then contacted New England Comics and soon I was back in the flow of finding back issues and getting the new stuff. I moved to Metairie, Louisiana and visited BSI Comics on Severn Avenue and there was a pretty awesome store they had lots of new comics and lots of old comics but I remained loyal to New England Comics due to the convenience and accuracy of ordering my comics by mail. After a few years with New England Comics and me having to move back to Slidell, Louisiana due to losing my job and pretty much starting over I found a new comic shop in Slidell back in late 2004 called Magic Comics & Hobbies it was really small but the owner David Strecker is awesome and he'd do whatever he could to get you what you needed. I split my order for a while with Magic Comics and New England Comics and eventually went 100% with Magic Comics & Hobbies.

I moved back to Metairie, Louisiana in 2006 and remained loyal to Magic Comics although I only go to get my comics every three or four weeks and I visit BSI Comics every few weeks too and actually run their eBay store for them.

I was very lucky in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina struck I had been living with my Mother for a while while trying to get my life back together here home was destroyed by the tidal surge that reached at least 8 feet where we lived but by a bizzare twist of fate or maybe God is a comic book collector but my comics stored about two miles away in a storage unit were unharmed there was serious flooding and tidal surge probably less than 1 mile away.

So anyway I'm a comic book fan, I love the art, I love the heroes, I love the villians and I love the stories...I even love that weird smell of an old comic shop. I hope to become friends with some new people here and share stories of how much comics are a part of your lives.

ARTIST I ADMIRE
Alex Ross, Todd McFarlane, John Romita, John Romita Jr., Ashley Wood, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Joe Quesada, Jim Lee, Michael Turner, Amanda Conner, Peter David, Greg Land, Angel Medina, Frank Cho, David Finch, J.G. Johns, Chris Bachalo, Billy Tan, Michael Avon Oeming, Mike Norton, Steve McNiven, Mark Bagley, Mike Zeck, Al Rio, Riccardo Burchielli, Terry Dodson, Jeff Smith......to be continued

WRITERS I ADMIRE
Stan Lee, Brian Michael Bendis, Peter David, Chris Claremont, Joe Casey, Garth Ennis, Ed Brubaker, Brian K. Vaughn, Alan Moore, Charlie Huston, Greg Pak, Frank Cho, Brian Reed, Stan Saki, Warren Ellis, Jeph Loeb, Joss Whedon, Jim Shooter, John Byrne, Brian Wood, Jeff Smith......to be continued

MY eBAY STORE http://stores.ebay.com/Comics-Farm

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS I RECOMMEND
Batman: Black and White
Batman: Gotham By Gaslight
Batman: The Long Halloween
Crisis On Infinite Earths
DMZ: On The Ground
DMZ: Body Of A Journalist
Earth X
Enemy Ace: War Idyll
Ex Machina: The First Hundred Days
The Exterminators: Bug Brothers
Identity Crisis
Invinceable: Family Matters
Jinx
Kingdom Come
Maus
Maus II
Paradise X Book 1
Paradise X Book 2
Pride Of Bahgdad
Strangers In Paradise: Pocket Book 1
Universe X
Watchmen
Y The Last Man: Unmanned


FAVORITE CHARACTERS
Angel/Archangel
Batman
Beast
Black Cat
Black Widow
Captain America
Catwoman
Colossus
Cyclops
Daredevil
Dr. Doom
Flash
Galactus
Green Arrow
Green Goblin
Hawkeye
Hobgoblin
Hulk
Human Torch (Johnny Storm)
Ice Man
Iron Fist
Iron Man
Jamie Madrox
Jean Grey
J. Jonah Jameson
Joker
Luke Cage
Mary Jane Watson Parker
Magneto
Moon Knight
Ms. Marvel
Mystique
Nightwing
Penguin
Professor X
Punisher
Quicksilver
Red Tornado (Just met him in the new JLA)
Rogue
Sabretooth
Sam (Sam & Twitch)
Sandman (Marvel)
Scarlet Witch
Sentry
Solomon Grundy
Spawn
Speedy
Spider-Man
Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew)
Storm
Superman
Thing
Thor
Tigershark
Twitch
Vision
Wasp
Wolverine
X-23
To Be Continued....


Current Monthly Pull List:
Action Comics
The Amazing Spider-Man
Batman
Countdown
Detective Comics
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
Green Arrow
Incredible Hulk
JLA
JSA
Mighty Avengers
Moon Knight
Ms. Marvel
New Avengers
Sensational Spider-Man
Supergirl
Uncanny X-Men
Wolverine
Wolverine Origins
Wonder Woman
World War Hulk
X-Factor
X-Men