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Hearts & Iron is the story of Carl Hanson and John Sullivan, two iron-pumping gay men who begin a life-journey together. Paul Bunyan follows Big Paul's adventures in the north woods with his fellow lumberjacks. In Ursus Major, A Werebear's Tale, a cub gets more than he bargained for when he meets a bearded and furry dream man.

Click on the links below, and you will be redirected to the Hearts & Iron comic website store, and may purchase comics there.

"Musclemen in the Underworld" - a review of Hearts & Iron #5 by fellow comic artist/writer/blogger Rainer Hormann. Thanks Rainer!

An interview (in German) with me on the blog Samstag ist ein Guter Tag

An interview with me in Bear Mais magazine #42 (in Portuguese.)

Bearotic.com article on my web comics!

An article on Bear Nerd, a Brazilain bear site (in Portuguese.)

Compete Magazine article on Hearts & Iron: This Comic Strip Stands Out

Patte d'Ours/Bears paw 3.0, a French bear art site, with a page devoted to my artwork...
http://pattedours-bearspaw.com/page2/page2.html

Pagina 12, an Argentine publication, has an article about me/Hearts & Iron and 3 other comic artists. I believe it's in Spanish - happy translating!

PRAISE FOR "HEARTS & IRON"

"I am enjoying your work immensely. Most of all your ability to weave an interesting story with believable characters and plot lines."
- John Calimee, artist 

"I was fully expecting to mostly enjoy the strong visuals. While your artwork is extremely well done, I found myself really being drawn into the storyline."
- D.B., WI

I grew up reading 1960's Marvel and DC comics, and science fiction of the Golden Age. There were also little-known gems like the Classics Illustrated Comics Story of Great Scientists (such as Einstein, Curie and Pasteur), with its beautiful, uncredited artwork and delight in learning about the world around you. Mad magazine, great fun when I was a kid in the Sixties, soon paled next to the more sophisticated and subversive National Lampoon. I followed Jack Kirby's Fourth World books devotedly, but my interest in comics was waning. After a long period of not reading comics, I was pulled back by books like Crisis on Infinite Earths, Secret Wars, Alan Moore's Watchmen and V For Vendetta, Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: Year One and Daredevil, Akira and Neil Gaiman's epic Sandman. Now, I was hooked again.

Artists I have admired over the years include Jack Kirby, Frank Frazetta, Al Capp (whose L'il Abner strip was ghosted by Frazetta for years), Mad magazine's Mort Drucker, Neal Adams, Mike Dringenberg of the early Sandman issues, Yukinobu Hoshino's amazing art and storytelling in the science-fiction graphic novel 2001 Nights, the stark, Alex Toth-like brushwork of David Mazzuchelli on Frank Miller's Batman and Daredevil issues, and the lush compostion and masterful figure drawing of P. Craig Russell.

Tom of Finland and Bill Ward of Drum fame are gay artists whose work I greatly admire, as well as the humor and imagination of Roberta Gregory, Howard Cruse's precise line and sophisticated storytelling, and Ivan Velez 's comic/soap opera Tales Of the Closet.