Featured Guest: Greg Ruth

Paint & Pixel is pleased to welcome featured comic artist, Greg Ruth!

Greg Ruth began working in comics in 1993 and has since written and drawn stories for Dark Horse Comics, DC/Vertigo, Fantagraphics, The New York Times and Scholastic including Sudden GravityFreaks of the Heartland (with Steve Niles), Conan: Born on the Battlefield (with Kurt Busiek), The Matrix ComicsGoosebumps among others. He has also created work for The Criterion Collection, Macmillan, Random House, CNN, Viking, Harper Collins, Simon and Schuster, and Hyperion including his first children’s book, Our Enduring Spirit (with Barack Obama), A Pirate’s Guide to First Grade (with James Preller), City of Orphans (with Avi), and Red Kite, Blue Kite (with Ji Li Jiang) as well as music videos for Rob Thomas and Prince. He is currently working on his ongoing 52 Weeks Project drawing series, and two more graphic novels, The Lost Boy (for Scholastic/Graphix) and Indeh (with Ethan Hawke for Hyperion/ABC). He currently lives in Western Massachusetts with his wife and artist, Jen Smith and their two sons, Emmett and Nathaniel.

For more work by Greg, visit his website www.gregthings.com and Etsy store, www.etsy.com/shop/Gregthings.