I'm dan lawlis and I've been a professional illustrator for over twenty years. The first ten of those years I drew comic books for publishers like Marvel and dc comics.  The following ten plus years I have worked as a freelancer in the advertising field doing mainly TV storyboards for advertising agencies.

The first time i considered doing a comic book with a christian character was over twenty years ago. I wasn't ready Spiritually in anyway to do that back then. Sometimes I'm not sure i am now. that was actually one of the most difficult things to overcome in the creation of this comic book, was feeling that i'm unworthy. who am i to teach anyone about christianity? However, over the years i slowly realized that if i was going to be waiting for myself to become perfect to create a christian comic then it was never going to happen. Also i didn't see any professional comic book artists that were creating mainstream christian superheroes.  So I started to think maybe, imperfect though i maybe, i might just be the guy for the job. maybe my try is better then nothing.

I went through many versions of my comic book. the main character changed many times. i drew out a story and then it sat. some of them didn't feel right, they felt phony. it never seemed quite right. as i grew and matured my stories did too and i learned quite a lot about what i really thought about my faith. It took a while to be honest about what i felt in my heart about god. i had to answer difficult questions in my mind. the interesting thing is that i started to come up with what i think are some very good answers. a lot of very good answers (although i still don't claim to have all the answers. not by a long shot). once i reached the point that i felt confident in my faith, it just happened, all at once. I sat down one evening and started to sketch and sketch and sketch! i couldn't draw fast enough. a couple of days later i had the story i had been looking for. it was a scribbly mess, but i knew i had it! even from this point the story was redrawn and rewritten many times, but the essence of the story of that one evening remained.

once i had my story it was like nothing could stop me. at one point i had decided to in fact,to paint the entire story, but after a while too many of the pages weren't looking right and i ended up scrapping the whole thing. it was also just taking too long. i thought at this rate i was never going to do any follow up stories in a decent time period if readers wanted more. so i did the art that you see on this site, which i was pleased to find out actually looked better then the painted work!

It's been a strange and crazy ride and i invite you to hop on the roller coaster i've created for all of us. hopefully after the ride comes to a complete stop you will exit having been inspired to take your own spiritual journey as i have. i believe you will find that journey is worth while.

Dan

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