I used to make comics and cartoons and things like that years ago and I wanted to get back into doing that again. On my lunch break at work, I went to meet my wife to tell her about this.

That was the day that we found out she had breast cancer.

This was the first comic I did. I drew it on my phone. And I kept doing one every day as we went through it.

As a matter of fact, the drawing on the cover above is right after we left the doctors office. We were just told she had to get a lumpectomy. We got in the car and she shouted that. My wife says she doesn't even remember doing it. But I remember it.

I was driving home from work and while I was at a stop light, I looked over and these kids were sitting at a table in their front yard eating pizza. One of them looks over at me holds it up and just shouts "I LOVE PIZZA!"

How awesome is that?

I was posting these comics every day on a website I created called American Bandito.

After a near death experience like that, we knew that we wanted to do something different with our lives... which will happen. So we started taking chances.

I was originally going to be an animator but life and kids happened. 

I created a short-lived internet cartoon series called "The Adventures of Xylus and Dexter", where my two boys were superheroes in outer space, because why not?

In 2017 I started a podcast called Tom Ray's Art Podcast, a podcast about artists in Madison, WI.

I talk to artists of all types and places in their careers. Beginners, hobbyists, and professionals.