“How it began” The history of Vision Land Comics is simple. It began with a boy and his dream. Ever since elementary school I have been fascinated with comic books. I loved the stories, the characters, and the dream worlds they always took you to. I began to draw the characters and realized that God had blessed me with a talent, a gift, of art. I hoped to one day draw the same heroes that I spent hours reading about.

I have always held faith that the Lord was going to use me somehow to minister to others through my art. I just didn’t know how. Not until He placed it upon my heart, in the year of ‘96, to draw my own characters, write my own stories about things pertaining to His grace. But where was I to begin?

Well, my senior year I was blessed to have a Christian English teacher who assigned the book Pilgrims Progress and afterward gave us the assignment to write an allegory. I leaped at the chance and wrote out my first story “The Island of Conformity”. But it wasn’t until after it was written that it was placed on my heart to turn this English project into a comic book.

So in 1996 I began to plan out my comic book. I began to paint the comic book in watercolor and made the pages 11 x 17. It took me almost as good as 3 years to finally finish the comic and once it was done I was faced with the dilemma of getting it published. How could I ever get people to see this comic book about the grace of Jesus Christ? After much prayer, I decided to make my own business and as I was reading in Proverbs I came across chapter 29:18 “Where there is no vision, the people perish”.

At once I knew that I had to keep focused on the vision the Lord had given me. I decided to name my company “Vision Land Comics” because we, as pilgrims in this land, are called to chase our visions. And that is what I am doing, chasing my dream, my vision.

After getting all the necessary things done for starting a business (business license, copy writing, stamps, bank accounts, etc) I began to put the word out. I made a web page, teaching myself the HTML coding as I went. I submitted my site and waited for a huge response. But when nothing seemed to happen I knew I had to do more. I sent my comic off to get printed in Florida and began to make contacts.

God just began to open the doors. And now here I am blessed by the Lord who gave me my own small business and an answer to my dream.