Biography

Started drawing comics and naughty art in elementary school (yeah the perverted thoughts started young), where I got caught by a girl sitting behind me in 5th grade. Embarassed as I was, she seemed more interested in sex than I was (Libby in PronQuest is actually based off my memories of her). After than I tried to focus my creative energies on my other passion games, began designing board games and tweaking computer programs for my Commodore 64 (no, that’s not the founder of the Vanderbilts) and of course many of them were rather naughty and hentai related. As I went to college I focused on my business degree (Finance) and only played video games not the programming. Still designed and tweaked board games though like a massive version of Axis & Allies that allowed 20 players and took two weeks to play. I did try to get back into comics with Poser (the original) which was very basic and designed for the sole purpose of helping comic artists to draw perspectives but abandoned it do a lack of time.

When Sid Meyer’s Civilization game around that became the focus of my universe, every new computer I bought was because I had to upgrade to play the new version of Civilization. When they came out with animated leader heads everyone was making static pictures but I wanted them to look like the ones in the game and I bought Poser 4 (which was far improved since the first one) to make animated leaderheads for Civilization. Needless to say my first Civilization was the Amazons with topless animated units and a topless bouncy breasted leader. In fact I made a lot of animated female leader heads with bouncy breasts that came to be called Jiggle Motion and even got invited to join with several game development groups for expansions. At this point I made a entry for Fred Perry’s Gold Digger Summer Special that was accepted and published by Antarctic Press. Started thinking I should work at a comic story I had long been working on for over 15 years and began designing the fantasy characters but they were never quite the quality I wanted. As I worked on the models I started posting work in progress images on Renderotica’s user gallery calling the series PronQuest Offline as a tongue in cheek parody of the rpg fantasy online games.

It became popular enough that I got a domain and starting posting a online hentai comics series based on those characters in 2008 which is the PronQuest.com you know today. I started a science fiction comic at the same time called Portcall Uranus with Portcall updating on Wednesdays and PronQuest updating daily. PronQuest became so popular it became THE primary source of traffic for many of the comic hub site of the time including Buzz Comics (at the time the biggest of them all with PronQuest ranking in the top four traffic sites and often the number one position), Top Web Comics, and WebComic Planet (it went through several name changes, and was the project of Frump the current developer of Comic Easel and Comic Press, PronQuest was about 20% of the source traffic and Frump and I used to have lots of online conversations about the webcomic community and where it was going). About 2010 the success of PronQuest really got a lot of anti-porn comic artists on the warpath and they began putting pressure on the comic hubs to delist not safe for work comics. The groups would often boycott the comic hubs and this resulted in PronQuest getting delisted from most (including Frump’s hub where he was forced to list all adult comics behind a hidden screen where we could not be seen by the public).

PronQuest lost about half it’s traffic at this point which was followed by my being shipped to Kuwait with the US Army where PronQuest.com is apparently banned by the Ministry of Decency (not making that up) and I couldn’t update or access the site leaving a year of no updates during which the site was hacked and then blacklisted by Google, and the few remaining comic hubs that allowed adult comics. In 2012 after returning from Kuwait and after several months on medical hold over (the last week before coming back I got to play flag football with some NFL players on a USO tour in Kuwait and Sam Bradford throws a football much harder than I’m used to which broke one of my fingers) I began the process of reclaiming by websites from the hackers and rebuilt the PronQuest and over the next six months some of the loyal readers returned although no where near it’s peak readership. About a year later someone at my webhost, HostGator decided that PronQuest should not be allowed to be on the internet and wiped it from their servers on the webhost side. I then moved to Dreamhost and have been working on adding the old comics one by one (due to having an old database that doesn’t sync with the current versions of databases).

And that’s pretty much where we’re at today, I still hope to actually make a game version of PronQuest in the future but that’s still to be decided.