Mario Mora, professionally known as the Artisan Rogue, is a Kansas City area based creative. His visual work is a mix of personal themed stories and fantasy illustrations inspired by robots, anime, comic books, monster movies, and the natural world.
While in college in 1994, he created his first website on Geocities* to learn to showcase his artwork to a wider audience and stretch his knowledge base beyond the Commercial Art degree he was pursuing.
Beginning with an illustration job for pull tab gaming company Universal Manufacturing in 2003, his career has spanned over 22 years working as a freelancer or inhouse designer for companies including Hallmark, Infinity Foils, and Signature Marketing Group. Projects and creative efforts included illustration, self publication, television story boarding, video editing, character concepting, voice acting, ornament design, web design, dead media archiving, and robotic system assemblage integrations.
In 2006, Mario started a new blog, and later in 2010, a YouTube Channel.
Finally in early 2025, he formed the analog media archiving company "the Spirit of Legacy", out of a desire to provide services for anyone wanting to preserve old media memories.
In August of 2025, he began work as a part time contractor for ISG creating portraits for funeral homes.
Current endeavors and upcoming releases include:
- Ardor: Vol 1" - upcoming graphic novel
- "Pagan Zoetrope" - re-release of the original graphic novel with additional story and art
- "An Insalubrious Penillion of Verbal Adroitness: Vol 1" - songs and poems
- "Retrophiliac" - book about growing up in the 1980/90s
*Easter Egg: To trigger Google's Comic Sans Easter Egg. Just type in searches like "Comic Sans," "Geocities," "Design fails," "Bad UX," "Best font ever," "Vincent Connare," or "90s websites," and watch as Google transforms its search results into the undeniably iconic Comic Sans font.