This is my cover for Bad Candy Comic 4!

I want to encourage you to support the Kickstarter project for this issue. It's important to me for many reasons.

The comic was created, written and inked by my Rain King Studios brother Robert Henry, a friend that I've had over 30 years. Shawn Wilson, a fellow Rain King Studios brother who I have known over 30 years, did beautiful black and white tones and exciting sound effects for this issue. Scott Prime, fellow Rain King Studios brother and a friend that I've had over 30 years, did a cover for this comic too.

My best friends have all contributed to this project. And it's a return to creating comics for several of us.

It's an official return to comics for me too. I contributed the cover you see below, plus did painted colors on Robert Henry's cover. I lettered the issue, did some interior design, and I'm running the Kickstarter campaign (plus some other duties).

I stopped doing comics in the 90s and even stopped doing art soon after. This project represents me getting fully back into creating comics and it's a very exciting time for me.

That's why I want to ask for you to support this project, for my friends, and to help welcome me back into creating comics officially.

Plus, it's a fun comic, with a nod to 80s horror films, and it's pencilled by horror comics legend Tim Vigil!

Please consider checking out the campaign and bidding on my cover (below) or one of the many variant covers by my friends!


Bad Candy Kickstarter Campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1993782250/bad-candy-issue-4-0f-4-plus-1-3
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I want to encourage you to support the Kickstarter project for this issue. It's important to me for many reasons.

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