Visual Storyteller • Educator • Creative Researcher

Helping us better understand ordinary human experiences through extraordinary stories.

I’ve been fascinated by stories for as long as I can remember. Growing up in the small mountain town of Walhalla, South Carolina, I spent countless hours filling notebooks with superheroes, monsters, and imaginary worlds. Drawing wasn’t simply a hobby. It was how I explored ideas, made sense of the world around me, and imagined places beyond what I could see. That early curiosity eventually became a lifelong passion for visual storytelling.

Today, I work as a visual storyteller, educator, and creative researcher whose work spans animation, sequential art, storyboarding, illustration, visual development, and character design. While the media may change from project to project, my focus remains on using visual storytelling to explore character, experience, and connection.

After earning my Master of Fine Arts in Sequential Art from the Savannah College of Art and Design, I built a professional career that has included published graphic novels, collaborative comics, animation projects, and creative work for clients and publishers. Alongside that professional practice, I have spent more than seventeen years teaching at the collegiate level and currently serve as a Professor of Practice in Clemson University’s Digital Production Arts program. Teaching and creative practice have never been separate pursuits for me. Each continually informs and strengthens the other, creating opportunities to explore new ideas while helping students develop their own voices as storytellers.

My creative work is driven by curiosity. Every project begins with a question: What makes a character believable? Why do certain stories stay with us? How can visual storytelling communicate ideas that words alone cannot? Those questions have led to original projects including Suzy Samson, En Garde!, and The Bigfoot Getaway, while also shaping collaborations on projects such as Pirate Blood, Lady Flintlock, and Healthy Habit All-Stars. Whether the work is personal, collaborative, or educational, I see each project as part of an ongoing process of creative research and discovery.

This website reflects that philosophy. Rather than serving as a traditional portfolio of finished work, it documents an active creative practice where stories continue to evolve through research, experimentation, collaboration, and reflection. Here you’ll find professional projects, original stories, classroom experiences, and works in progress that together illustrate not only what I create, but how I think about storytelling and the creative process.