Ben Sheppard

I am a lifelong obsessive collector of monsters, and if they are dangerous and armed so much the better. I have had a few comic strips published in small press comics, and with my other hat I have had a series of historical articles published. I am currently working on several illustrated stories, and am currently researching a lot about Mammoths, Siberia and Permafrost for a web comic.
I have done a lot of "World Building" in my life, mainly for a place for the creatures I create to live in. I am working on several SF and Fantasy ideas, but have not put them out there yet. One reason that I began thinking of my own stories was that I was a late reader (10 or 11), and I used to look at wonderful illustrations on book covers and try to imagine what they might be about. By the time I did start to devour books my own ideas had been going along for quite awhile.