CrisisCity is a serialized graphic novella. More accurately, CrisisCity is a collection of interrelated, Illustrated hyper-short stories. Actors and actresses, gangsta rappers, painters and art dealers, crack addicts, and other characters play against the backdrop of contemporary Los Angeles.

Although every chapter fits precisely into a larger story line, it is intended that each may be read as a stand alone feature in random order.

In each installment I attempt to capture the action of a single instance, an interesting cameo of a more complex work.

CrisisCity features real locations and fictionalized representations or real personalities culled from this amazing place we call the "City of Angels". The web version of the feature provides dynamic links to relevant sites whenever possible.

Let's say it's 1978 and, while working part time for the defense industry, you discover an evil plot to take over the world. Annnnnd you are an Art Student - not Bruce Willis or Harrison Ford. What do you do? I know what I did; I wrote a Cartoon.

Six years later, in 1984, the Christic Institute began shouting "Secret Team" all over Public Radio. A year later their accusations blossomed into the Iran-Contra hearings. I watched with morbid fascination as I learned that:

A. My paranoid, cartoon political fiction turned out to be neither paranoia nor fiction. There really WAS a corrupt paramilitary group beneath our Government using, murder, bribery, spy satellites and drug money to take over the World.

and

B. America didn't seem to care!

Subsequently I learned that while Americans may not care about "The Secret Team," they do love soap operas! So I began to slant CrisisCity away from it's dark, political roots towards well, something else.

CrisisCity was first published in print in the early nineties in the SOHO News, a North Hollywood, California area newspaper, as a monthly serial until the Northridge Quake Heavy damaged the Editors apartment badly enough to scare him out of LA.

A portion of the feature was first placed on the web in the fall of 1998.

It WAS my goal to be one of the first cartoonists to design with this media in mind. Let's just say now, we are headed in that direction.