Please allow me to introduce myself... (Leave it to me to start my first post on a Christian site with a line from "Sympathy for the Devil"...) My name, as you can see, is Jonathan Matos, but I mostly go by "Jon". I've been doing comics projects for the past (7?) years, although since most of that was in between school and church work, there wasn't really time to blossom. However, after four years of Graphic Design experience, I'm ready to get out in the field in any way possible.
My dream, I would say, is to make creator-owned work, written by me, or at least helping to publish comics by others doing amazing work. I'm working now on a monsters book that deals with Hinduism and Christianity, and hope to submit that out in the next few months.
I'm also blogging, mostly about comics and Christianity over at GraphicallyChristian.com. We're also working on releasing the first issue of our magazine, The Gauntlet, first at Wizard World Philadelphia and later this summer online. We hope to get Christian artists to submit anything from short comic stories, single page art pieces, poetry, photos, and short stories. We just launched our Facebook page and Twitter, which you can follow if you're interested. (We'll be posting the theme for issue #2 around June 20th.) We also have forums and would love to see you guys posting in there. I'll probably posting links to my blog posts here, as well as supporting any other creators I can on the site. Looking forward to the encouragement and criticism, (however the Spirit leads. lol.)
Overall I'm excited to find a community of Christians who art into comics, and hope to get to be a blessing on this site and through my own.
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