Nic Carcieri
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I have been a self-professed fanboy for the last 30 years. It all started in the summer of 1977 when I saw Star Wars for the first time. My Mom first introduced me to comics by bringing them home for me to read when I was home sick from school. Around the age of twelve, I started to get an allowance for helping around the house. Every week, I would take my $2 and walk up to the local convenience store, buy a Slush Puppy and comics. Growing up, I would created new characters and heroes, drawing pictures of them and making up adventures. After taking a few creative writing classes in college, I began to write stories of my favorite characters.
me and my idol Chuck Dixon
In the summer of 2003, I had moved with my family from Rhode Island to Atlanta, Georgia. The local comic shop offered a weekly comic art class in their shop. I thought the class would be a good opportunity to meet some people in the area that shared an interest in comics. The class was taught by a local writer/artist named Jason Bullock. Every week we would talk about all aspects of comic book creation, pencilling, inking, writing, scripting, characterization, marketing, etc... I had not written anything in years but the class reignited the spark.
me and BOTS artist Tim Sale
Later that year, I met the artist Rantz through the Digital Webbing. I thought his style was perfect for sci-fi story I had written called RIP. We formed Portal Productions and published two issues of RIP with the small press publisher Repercussion Comics and started to make the convention circuit. In 2006 Portal Productions published BOTS. BOTS was a not-for-profit artbook that was created to promote autism awareness and raise money for autism charities.
I met Rob Jones through the BOTS project. Rob had contributed a piece of artwork for the project. I met Manny through Rob at Heroes Con 2006. Shortly after hanging out at Megacon earlier this year, Rob and I started talking about working on a project together. We recruited Rantz and Manny and the Inkslingers were born!
In addition to the Inkslingers project, I am also writing two projects for Bluewater Comics. The creator owned project Ninth Order and one of Bluewater's existing properties. Both should see print by early 2008.
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