July 1995 I went to the Jazz mobile at grants Tomb with my good friend Asuquo Ukpong a gifted Architect to help him set up his booth and also share space with him, Asuquo was selling his apparel T-shirts and art work and I was selling my Crime graphic novel with posters and T-shirts.
This will be the debut of my Illustrated novel in America It premiered in London UK stores and in the grater London area including Nottingham, north of London and in such store as a Tower records, Virgin Mega storesUK

This showing was special because I’ll have a chance to get direct feedback from my New York audience.
My most memorable experience from that event was when I gave a complementary copy to Jerry Jack a photographer friend of mine whom I worked with on New Word magazine he disappeared into the crowd.
When he returned he wanted another copy he said his friend’s girlfriend saw it and wanted it and was willing to purchase it at any cost from him so he sold it to her he gave me her card it read Jeannette Kahn president of D.C. comics.

I called her the next day and she said she remembered me from when she was the publisher of Heavy metal Magazine in the late seventies. I was working with John Workman on my first story with I wrote and illustrated for the magazine when I was 16 years old and junior at the High School Of Music and Art. It meant the world to me to hear her congratulations on my Graphic novel.

Although I created Crime the graphic novel in 1994 the story has been re-written and evolved from a short story I wrote and Illustrated when I was 15 years old in The High school of Music and Art. It was an English homework assignment, I had a weekend to do it but it change everything.
How did it all start? I remember one of my first super hero, his name was Kid cobra. A typical white superhero powerful invincible can fly and all that. He was fashioned after my favorite artists of the time like Gene Colan and Neal Adams.
High was a major shift for me especially geographical I lived in east Flatbush Brooklyn and my high school was in 135th street in central Harlem. The environment was very stimulating all of the gutted out tenements looked like a post apocalypse sci-fi set and other areas had beautiful brownstones and townhouses. But aside from that there was a entirely new energy all of it’s own the way they dressed spoke danced and this was around the birth of hip-hop so it was an exciting time.
 
When I entered the High school that was the end of my kid cobra character RIP 1970-1975 I experimented with a lot of techniques with him from ball point pen and crayons to India ink and watercolors.
 
My friend Andreé told me about the book 1984 by George Orwell I found it very interesting. although I never actually read the book I used my imagination from Andreé telling of it.
 
My High School English teacher Mr. Howard gave the class a project and that project will change everything., it was to create a journal he said you have full control of the format. It can be a poem, a written text or an illustrated story like a comic book. I was like great!, a comic that i can do.