Travis

     Illustrator / Writer / Creative Director

     When I was 10 years old, I bought my first issue of "Wolverine". I don't know why, but it just seemed like a good way to waste my parents' money. Being the artist that I was, I instinctively started to copy the pages and characters. I bought more and more comics and eventually started to produce some of my own. Just loosely assembled scrawlings in pencil which were then stapled together and passed around to my friends and family. When I was 13, I learned the elements of good comic writing, thanks to my friend Colin Blanchette. We were both trombone players in jr. high and would often find much more solace in reading "Sandman" and "Hellblazer" during class than playing scales and emptying spit valves. But there was something missing. I was stalled. There was no link between my own poorly drawn characters and the tight and refined work of Marc Silvestri or Jim Lee. That all changed when I was 14. The day after Christmas in my folk's house was relatively laid back; mostly just lying around eating leftovers. In the midst of my post holiday boredom, I went to the local video store. As I paroosed the shelves, I came across a "sci-fi" film that would change my drawings and my life forever. "Akira" was the key. It was amazing technique, but done in a simple format that would eventually bridge the gap between me and my unfound style as well as give me the push I needed to get out of my present rut. Many more followed ("Fist of the North Star", "Vampire Hunter D", "Appleseed", "Ninja Scroll", and "Neon Genesis Evangelion") and my style developed rapidly. With the aid of the talented and wise university professors of WWU, I built my own personal style, which I am refining still today. The results of which are the works presented in this web site.

     When I got out of college, I expected a plethora of job offers to just fall in my lap. To say the least, I was sorely mistaken. In order to make some money, I decided to work at a local video store. There I met a guy named Rico, who took quite an interest in the little scribblings I did during the morning shift (for those of you out there who have never had the pleasure of working in a video store, morning shifts are completely dead with the exception of old men who come in to rent porn). Rico told me that his step dad was looking for someone to do some graphic design work (logos and such) for his web site development business. I threw together some quick sketches and faxed them over. Within minutes, Scott called me back and we met to discuss business. In return for the work and the guarantee that I would provide him with art when needed, he gave me this web site. I wanted to take the comic 'zine I was doing in college and expand to a worldwide audience. But I wasn't happy with the direction that the story was currently going. Oddly enough, my old friend Colin called me up a few weeks earlier (buds re-united, how beautiful). He was the knowledge and inspiration that helped get this comic and art thing off the ground in the first place, so I felt that he would be a needed asset to the venture. As for Jake, he was just this crazy fucker I knew in high school, but he's a wiz with computer graphics (something that I never got too much exposure to until college). I originally hired him on to just do the web site lettering logo, but decided that he too would be a valued asset to this project as well.

     Well, the team has been assembled and the site launched. I hope that you like that which I have worked very hard to do. I bid you farewell, and let you loose on the rest of the site. Take care.

Travis R. Bundy