Heyo!
My name is Glenn and I'm a new user here on Steemit.
I know nothing about this blockchain social media thing, so I'm here to explore and I guess make some money. Mostly though to learn how this blockchain technology is going to change how we do social media.
I'm an independent game developer, comic book author, illustrator, and writer based out of Los Angeles. Sounds cliche, right? But, it feels like that fits better with my personality and creative endeavors.
I used to live in the San Francisco Bay Area and I worked at a big game publisher making stuff that you probably know and love. Now I work at a startup mobile game company here in Hollywood.
In between these two jobs, I ran my own indie game studio with a friend. It's called Prismwave. It was a two-man operation and we managed to publish two games on our own. You can find one of them on Android:
It's an endless runner snowboarding, skiing, and sledding game. You do tricks and score big points to unlock new characters.
On my own, I made my own webcomic for many years called This Mortal Coil.
This Mortal Coil is about a young modern Shinto deity named Kamiko. She fights yokai and demons and helps mortals who become entangled with the gods. It's an expression of my love of all things Japanese -- traditional and pop cultural.
I finished the first story of This Mortal Coil in 2016. It's entitled The Rabbit and the Moon.
If you're not down with reading it on the web, I also have physical copies available for sale. You'll have to inquire me for more details as I don't really have an e-shop or Etsy page setup to facilitate it. Yeah, I know... I'm super business minded, aren't I?
I think of myself as an artist first, but producing my webcomic and mobile games like Toodle's Toboggan has taught me that I need some business and marketing aptitude as well. So, I'm working on it...
This Mortal Coil isn't dead yet. In fact there's some other shorter run comics you can read on the site.
I thought I'd do another comic, but it's time consuming and not something I have in any great supply these days. Not that I ever did, but somehow I pulled it off... maybe youth or just being crazy. A little bit of both I suppose. And a work ethic.
Instead of a comic, my idea for This Mortal Coil is a book series on Amazon Kindle. I can still indulge in some art by making the cover, but I can write my story faster than I can draw it. Right now this idea exists only as a... well, concept. I need to do my research. Which genre does it fit? What are the stories -- I have a ton of ideas, but they need organization and to be built into character and story arcs. It's a huge todo, and probably something I can document here on Steemit.
Although all this talk about merging the business and art of making things brings me to my other project. Yeah, I have another one... a book series I started on Kindle which I'm trying to revive called The Mechanical Bird. It's a long story and I'll tell it another time. Here's a new version the cover for the first book:
I have a lot of art I've done in the past. Some of it's pinup girls. Some of it's Lolita Fashion. Some of it's 3D. All of it's original stuff by me. I used to co-run an art group up in the SF Bay Area called Drawing Meats and I had a lot of fun sketching with those guys.
Here's a sample:
"La Dominatrice"
Collage of illustrations I did for my Lolita Fashion Coloring Book:
Which you can buy on Amazon...
You can find me on twitter as @AlbinoGrimby and on Instagram with @Albinogrimby too.
So that's who I am and what I do. If you want to talk game development with Unity, Blender, or whatever I'm down. It's a subject I know a good deal about. If you want to chat about making comics and books ping me.
As for this site, I'll post my ongoing adventures in book authoring. Maybe I'll post some of my old comic strips and artwork and see if there's any reaction to it.
Until then, have a good one!
