About this item
Nominee: Best Writer and Best Male Character, Glyph Awards Beneath the polluted clouds of DayBlack, Georgia, exists a murderer. After hundreds of years of killing to survive, he no longer wants to simply exist . . . he wants to live. DayBlack is the story of Merce, a former slave who was bitten by a vampire in the cotton fields. Four hundred years later, he works as a tattoo artist in the small town of DayBlack. The town has a sky so dense with pollution that the sun is nowhere to be seen, allowing Merce to move about freely, night or day. Even darker than the clouds are the dreams he's been having that are causing him to fall asleep at the most awkward times (even while he's tattooing someone) . As he struggles to decipher his dreams, someone from his past returns with plans for him - plans that will threaten his new way of life and turn him back into the cold-hearted killer he once was.
About the Author
Growing up being influenced by Ralph Bakshi, Vaugn Bode', Wendy Pini, and Robert Crumb to name a few, really shaped my visual aesthetic, and my approach to creating my comic book, "DayBlack". I found that those underground comics of the 70's always had one foot in sexual raunchiness and drugs, and another foot in social commentary, a combination that fascinated me as a kid. Who knew that in those adult comics I hid from my mother, I would find my individual voice and stlye. Working as a tattoo artist for 18 years and counting, was also a huge influence on my unique storytelling perspective. Aside from being a vampire, Merce is about 80% me, and I've found that writing through him has been a great way to air my gripes about my job, and life in general.
