I'm Mario Mora, (aka "the Artisan Rogue"), a Midwest based creative. My work focuses on retro themed stories and illustrations inspired by robots, anime, comic books, monster movies, the outdoors and a lot of video games.
At 16 years of age, I decided to learn HTML and created my first website on Geocities. The internet was such a new and unknown thing, but I figured something it could do was get my dream of being an artist come to fruition.
Some years later, as I began to write down my thoughts and experiences, I switched to Blogger. This website has grown into a record of my personal and professional journey, as well as my creative efforts from success to failure.
With the internet being a transformative medium of communication, websites like this may not be as popular as they once were, but I feel they are needed. It's a way to connect and learn with the greater creative world I work in.
So thank you for taking the time to look around on here. It's appreciated, more than words could ever say.
So thank you for taking the time to look around on here. It's appreciated, more than words could ever say.
My 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