Artist Spotlight

Joshua Ray Stephens spends his time publishing comics from far outer-spacetime in the form of a cartoon-future-fantasy series called VENOMYTHS.

He was born in the Deep South. He spent the first twenty four and a half years of his life there. This time was spent assimilating the Ancient and Modern myths of Gods, Life and Man, among other things.

He earned a BFA, in Graphic Design, at the University of Georgia. He spent the next year plying his trade in Northern Italy for an international communications research center named Fabrica.

There he expanded his universe. The next two years were spent in the Great White North, where he earned a MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art. In this land he woke to the call of his most faithful muse, Comicopia.

After a short, and heart-breaking, hiatus in Amsterdam he spent the next seven and a third years in the Big Rotten Apple following his muse and professing at Cooper Union and Pratt Institute. With work published in myriad magazines across the globe, art exhibited at home and abroad, and several self-published books under his belt he now resides in St Louis with his one magnificent wife, two inspiring sons, and three mischievous cats.