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Bleed the page.

Nightmares dragged out of brush pens and bled across sequential panels. Horror manga, dystopian sci-fi, and fever-dream indie zines that leave stains on your subconscious.


The Manifesto

Peel back the skin.

You don't browse this work. You descend through it — sketch to ink to color to letter. Each layer reveals something you weren't meant to see.

01 · Raw Sketch

The Bone

It starts with graphite and rage. Thumbnails that look like crime scene notes. Character poses stolen from nightmares. The skeleton of the story — ugly, honest, alive.

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02 · Ink

The Blood

Brush pen meets paper and something irreversible happens. Thick blacks that eat the light. Crosshatching that builds texture like scar tissue. The line doesn't describe the thing — it IS the thing.

03 · Color

The Wound

Color isn't decoration here. It's infection. Spectral violet bleeding into the shadows. Magenta hemorrhaging at the edges. Cyan cutting through the dark like a surgical lamp. Color as emotional violence.

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04 · Letter

The Voice

The balloon is a cage. The lettering is the scream inside it. Hand-set, imperfect, deliberate — every caption box a coffin lid, every sound effect a physical impact. Words that bruise the page.


Sequential Work

Every panel a world.

Horror manga, dystopian sci-fi, and fever-dream indie work spanning 6 years of obsessive page-building.

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The Beliefs

Why this work exists.

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Horror matters because it names the things we already know are true but refuse to say out loud.

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Sequential art is the only medium where time is a physical object. You hold it. You turn the page. You choose when to look.

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Darkness in storytelling isn't cruelty. It's honesty. The panel doesn't flinch — it forces you to.

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Who Commissions Gutterbird

Built for the obsessed.

Indie publishers hunting for cover artists who understand darkness. Game studios needing concept art in sequential form. Convention-goers who pin original pages to their walls like relics.

Indie Publishers

Cover art, interior pages, full sequential series

Game Studios

Concept art in sequential form, world-building spreads

Convention Collectors

Original pages, limited print runs, signed editions

Commission a Page

You've watched a world built. Now own a piece.

You've descended through the process. You've seen the range. Now tell me what nightmare you need dragged out of the dark and onto the page — and I'll make it something you'll pin to your wall.

Current turnaround

3–5 weeks

Slots are limited. First-come, first-served.

Commission Inquiry

Tell me the nightmare.

No payment required upfront — I'll send a quote first.

Not ready to commission? Browse existing work.

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