• Real Name: Max Riffner
• Gender: Male
• Age: 31
• Location: Omaha, Nebraska (United States)

• Joined: Dec 11th, 2006
• Last Visit: Jun 29th, 2008

User Tags: artist, markosia, shocktrauma, writer

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Four page preview of Golden Boy 

The first four pages from my first self-published graphic novel, Golden Boy. It was finished in 2004, and will be re-released by Markosia (in color) in 2007. A full 25 page preview is available on my site.

Quick Step 

Five page preview of Quick Step, the winner of the 2007 Isotope Award for Excellence in Mini-Comics! Read the rest of the book for free on my site.

Preview of The Grinder

Current project with writers Chuck Satterlee and Sal Cipriano.

[ Posted by Jason_McNamara on Jul 9th, 2007 1:37 PM ]...

Max,

Much congratulations on your well deserved Isotope win! I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work.

[ Posted by colleen_coover on Apr 24th, 2007 11:50 AM ]...

Congratulations on winning the Isotope! Woo!

1 Reply [ Latest posted on April 24th, 2007 12:18 PM ]

[ Posted by maxriffner on Apr 24th, 2007 12:18 PM ]... Thank you, Colleen! The experience has been amazing, to say the least!

[ Posted by chucksatterlee on Mar 9th, 2007 10:30 PM ]...

You make good pictures.

[ Posted by korybing on Jan 20th, 2007 11:28 AM ]...

Thanks for showing me this place, Max! It's a pretty neat site.

[ Posted by TornadoKnight on Jan 8th, 2007 2:25 PM ]...

Heya Max from the Lincoln, Nebraska Comic Book Artists Guild CAG NE-Midwest!!

The Comic Book Artist's Guild, is an organization designed to bring talented comic book artists together - be them writers, colorists, inkers, pencilers, painters, editors, letterers, online animators, toy designers, web designers, online animators, fan interests or all of the above - to collaborate on a project of their choice. CAG is also a great place to meet with other comic lovers to learn new tricks or techniques, or teach a few of your own! CAG is for anyone who loves comics and has the passion to create in any aspect of the field.

You can visit our different CAG websites to see whats going on at -

CLICK HERE For The Main CAG Site! -- http://www.comicartguild.com/

CLICK HERE For Our Yahoo! Group! -- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/comicartguild/

CLICK HERE For Our NE-Midwest CAG MySpace! --http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=
user.viewprofile&friendid=81190309

CLICK HERE To Send Me A E-MAIL! -- tornadointhesky@alltel.net


Later Days,
Matt Mundorf
CAG NE/Midwest Coordinator

[ Posted by 1031 on Dec 29th, 2006 4:23 PM ]...

What's up, fellow Omahan? I like your artwork. "The Golden Boy" looks pretty good. And hey, if Dean gives it his approval, it must be worthwhile.

1 Reply [ Latest posted on December 30th, 2006 11:25 PM ]

[ Posted by maxriffner on Dec 30th, 2006 11:25 PM ]... Thanks! Dean has given me a lot of help over the years - I hang out there once a month with other artists for the Artist Jam. Stop by some time and say hello!

[ Posted by reviews on Dec 13th, 2006 6:56 PM ]...

Getting together at a con would be cool! I'd love to see you and your work in person.