Hiya Steemit, I'm Adam. Illustrator, Tattooist, and Comic Creator

Hello. My name is Adam Sward. At the urging of my friend Lars, I'm now on Steemit. In line with the seemingly expected introduction post, a bit about me. I've been working as a freelance illustrator since graduating from the Perpich Center for Arts Education, a Minneapolis arts high school, in 2004.

Any actual interest I had in drawing superheros disappeared around age 15, when I stumbled on the world of indie comics. Primarily black and white, with a heaping dose of cynicism layered over multiple-genre mash-ups; I was hooked immediately. From that point until graduating from high school, it became vary apparent that drawing indie comics for a living was in many ways more competitive and difficult than aiming for the spandex-clad mainstream comic world. Enter freelance. T-shirts, concert posters, handbills, product label design, etc. Anything someone would pay me to draw was fair game.

Over the course of the last ten years, I've had the opportunity work with bands from all over the country, writers, poets, comedians; more small projects and labors of love than I can honestly remember. The last five years was spent tattooing full time in Minneapolis.

These days I'm back to illustrating full time, and keeping the tattooing to few days a week. Primarily focused on writing, drawing, and producing my comics. You can check out a bunch of them at my official website SwardDraws , or keep checking back here, as I'll posting some of the shorter ones in their entirety. That about wraps it up! Happy to be here and looking forward to contributing.