I live on Californias lovely central coast, and Im a creative director at LEVEL Studios. And in my spare time, I make ELEANOR.
Eleanors story started eleven years ago, on a road trip in the northwest. I wrote out loud while driving, until I couldnt hold all of the words in my head, so I stopped and scribbled them in a notebook. Once home, I began writing her story for real. The manuscript grew and grew and changed and crashed and was rebooted a half-dozen times over the next decade, until one day I doodled an island, and the sea, and then drew a box around it. And that was it Eleanor was suddenly a comic book, and I had my first panel. So I thought to myself: Ill draw a page, maybe three, and see what happens.
I figured out what happens.
Her story isnt an easy one to explain. Believe me, Ive tried to capture it in a single, catchy sentence for editors and agents. It just isnt doable. But if I use just a few more words than that, I can tell you what its about. Its about Well, its about faith. And belief. And disbelief, and fear, and dreams. And searching for something that might only exist in a dream. And the heartbreak of realizing that. And the determination to disprove it.
You see?
And also it might just be about the apocalypse. Im still working on that.