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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. 

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