Integrity Comics

If you think sewing is easy, you’re   in for a big surprise. The class I took used industrial machines. They weren’t ordinary home sewing machines, but those used by the industry as its name suggests. The professor asked that we form a group so that we could help each other out and so I joined a team that I thought had great potential. And they were! Unfortunately, they didn’t show up after the first class meeting. It might have been due to their schedule or due to the arduous task of learning how to use an industrial machine. An industrial sewing machine which is referred to as a lockstitch is very heavy and has oil underneath it to keep it in what I guess to be in good working condition. It’s stationary, can’t be moved and if you press too hard with your foot, it will act more like a drilling machine rather than a sewing machine. I thought I would never get used to it and still have to watch how gently I press the footer before it starts acting up. There were ...

Lost Legends took 2 years to complete. I wanted each panel to look like a painting. It was a strenuous and challenging process because I was working full time and at times wondered if all the effort I was putting into the project would be worth it. I didn’t have a distributor so what was I doing this for? I took a gamble on myself. I wanted to make comic books the way they were when I was growing up in the 1980s. Back then, I could relate to characters like the ones in The New Teen Titans. They were older than I was, but their predicaments seemed to matter to me more than the adult heroes that first introduced me to the world of comic books like Superfriends, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman. Perhaps because TNTT had character. They had a soul. Around the early 1990s something was lost. Something was amiss from the emotional truth that made me be so absorbed by comic books, specifically those written by Marv Wolfman or anything drawn by George Perez. The genre had...

I thought it was a fake, but I was wrong. I first was made aware of the film Like a Prayer about half a year ago while online. Recently however, Oxana Nabokov was profiled in the Everybody Fan Club Facebook page which was established by my friend Mariam Ayub, whom I met way back during the Icon days when Marcia and Richard Del Vecchio managed the Official Madonna Fan Club (OMFC).   Oxana wanted to know why I thought the movie was a fake and I think I replied with having been ripped offed so many times I didn't know what to believe, but when Matthew Rettenmund, who wrote a book on Madonna and wrote an article for Icon back in the day gave the film his stamp of approval, I knew it was legit. Oxana, the director of the film, invited me to the private screening at the Presidio Theater in San Francisco. I already had tickets. My expectations were that I think I would have been surprised if the show was any good. I’ve been in the independent circuit for awhile and hav...