Hunter

2016

Hunter consists of a nameless protagonist searching for bounties in a nameless future city. It’s skeletal, and that was kinda the point. It remains a small footnote in the totality of my creative output, save for two important notes.

The first is that this project served as a way for me to start something—which is significant in and of itself. At this point, I’d been stagnating for a while and desperately wanted to draw pages. So, I opened my sketchbook, Micron in hand, and went about writing and drawing pages with no plan, no story, no pencil. Just me and a pen working as fast as I could. It was liberating and it did the trick.

But by far, the most important role Hunter played was to serve as the prototype for what would become Jack Titan. If you decide to check out my following posts on Jack, you’ll see he’s stuck around in different versions and remains an important character to me. I’d love to revisit him soon. Jack and his part time weapons dealer Sushi Master Izo were born here in these meager Hunter pages, and really, that’s what this entire section of my site is about—how one project inspires the next, but you need to first put pen to paper and make a thing. Then you can assess, edit, improve, and move on.

With all of that said, I’m still drawn to my approach to this “series,” and often wonder what would happen if I began a future project in similar fashion.

Maybe one day.