Area(s) of Interest or Expertise:
I have no expertise I like to do the work that makes people happy
My Testimony: (We encourage members to share briefly about how their faith in Christ has impacted their lives.)
I live in the Great upper pennisula of Michigan, right off the shores of lake Superior. My wife and I enjoy the area so much that we couldn't think to live anywhere else. I have been a cartoonist for many years i would draw cartoons about work and often submitted strips to my local Star Trek fan club. I often thought about a comic strip about a Christian super hero,but never found the time to get into such a job as a comicbook so I put it on the back burner. God had a plan for my life and he doesn't like to be put on the back burner. In 2002 I was diagnosed with MS and eventually was put off of work. Now I had all the time in the world. so what do you think I did. Start drawing Wonder dove(the title of my superhero)...No I got depressed and thought all I was good for was sitting at home and playing video games. Once again God stepped in and pointed me in the right direction. my left arm started yo give me problems and I could no longer play the games and every dvd we had just couldn't hold my interest. I started to draw because my right arm was fine and I still enjoyed doing it. my wife had faith in me and pushed till I started Wonder dove and I felt a purpose come back into my life. I had been drawing him for sometime (finishing two comicbooks) when in 2005 I was involved in a car accident when the vehicle(holding my wife, myself and three others) rolled three times. Everyone escaped with minor cuts and bruises but I had become a C6-C7 quadrapaligic. I was so confused God laid it on my heart to draw these books for him and boom it was taken away. At the level of injury I was only suppose to be able to move my wrists and have little to no hand function. My wife told me later that she told the doctors I would draw again and not to tell me I won't because they might as well kill me then and there. Rehab was a long road back (after 42 days in ICU) I was on a feeding tube,tracheostomy and God and my wife knows what else. After just over two months i was released from rehab and I had gotten most of my finger funtion back(much more than I was suppose to get back). A through rehab I was thanking God for all that he had done for me in this dark time. I drew alittle in the hospital and got frustrated at it but started drawing comics about my physical terrorists........I mean therapists(I love you all). At home my wife bought a old apple laptop of ebay and I started to draw on that after a lot of practice my spirits started to soar I was drawing like before and eventually Wonder dove went to a computer format(THANK YOU LORD). Living life as a Quad has it's challenges but with God & and my wife on my side I can do it. Without them I would never had the strenght to face the future THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE FOR YOUR SERVANT!!!!!!!!! If you are interested in reading the Wonder dove comics you can read them for free on CYBERLIGHTCOMICS.COM
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I live in the Great upper pennisula of Michigan, right off the shores of lake Superior. My wife and I enjoy the area so much that we couldn't think to live anywhere else. I have been a cartoonist for many years i would draw cartoons about work and often submitted strips to my local Star Trek fan club. I often thought about a comic strip about a Christian super hero,but never found the time to get into such a job as a comicbook so I put it on the back burner. God had a plan for my life and he doesn't like to be put on the back burner. In 2002 I was diagnosed with MS and eventually was put off of work. Now I had all the time in the world. so what do you think I did. Start drawing Wonder dove(the title of my superhero)...No I got depressed and thought all I was good for was sitting at home and playing video games. Once again God stepped in and pointed me in the right direction. my left arm started yo give me problems and I could no longer play the games and every dvd we had just couldn't hold my interest. I started to draw because my right arm was fine and I still enjoyed doing it. my wife had faith in me and pushed till I started Wonder dove and I felt a purpose come back into my life. I had been drawing him for sometime (finishing two comicbooks) when in 2005 I was involved in a car accident when the vehicle(holding my wife, myself and three others) rolled three times. Everyone escaped with minor cuts and bruises but I had become a C6-C7 quadrapaligic. I was so confused God laid it on my heart to draw these books for him and boom it was taken away. At the level of injury I was only suppose to be able to move my wrists and have little to no hand function. My wife told me later that she told the doctors I would draw again and not to tell me I won't because they might as well kill me then and there. Rehab was a long road back (after 42 days in ICU) I was on a feeding tube,tracheostomy and God and my wife knows what else. After just over two months i was released from rehab and I had gotten most of my finger funtion back(much more than I was suppose to get back). A through rehab I was thanking God for all that he had done for me in this dark time. I drew alittle in the hospital and got frustrated at it but started drawing comics about my physical terrorists........I mean therapists(I love you all). At home my wife bought a old apple laptop of ebay and I started to draw on that after a lot of practice my spirits started to soar I was drawing like before and eventually Wonder dove went to a computer format(THANK YOU LORD). Living life as a Quad has it's challenges but with God & and my wife on my side I can do it. Without them I would never had the strenght to face the future THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE FOR YOUR SERVANT!!!!!!!!! If you are interested in reading the Wonder dove comics you can read them for free on CYBERLIGHTCOMICS.COM
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Welcome aboard! I'm Scott A. Shuford, one of the new CCAS Board members. I wanted to stop in and say thanks for being involved with CCAS!
If you have any input or would like to be involved with anything in particular, please let me and Eric Jansen (Membership Coordinator for CCAS) know by contacting us both through the site.
To see a bit more about me, check out my profile here on the site. I'm looking forward to getting to know you better.
Can you post or join in a forum discussion topic, post your own blog entry or upload your art or video now? :)
At Your Service,
Scott A. Shuford
www.frontgatemedia.com
CCAS Board Member 2008-2010
Consider the words of C.S. Lewis:
"If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and to earnestly hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I suggest that this notion has crept in from Kant and the Stoics and is no part of the Christian faith. Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling around with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at sea. We are far too easily pleased."