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2025
6 × 8 in.
Watercolor and Ink on Paper
A mysterious homeless wizard stands over a trash can as a dark creature rises from inside. Bum Wizard comes from things I see while walking through the city, but takes those observations and pushes them into a completely fictional and ridiculous world.
The character eventually became the center of a comic I created but have not yet finished or released. In the story, a kid approaches the Bum Wizard with Hennessy because he wants the wizard to make him fly. The wizard technically gives him exactly what he asks for — just not in the way he expects. Instead of giving him the ability to fly, he turns him into a bird.
For a brief moment, the plan actually works. The kid can fly.
Then two guys shoot the bird out of the sky. He falls directly into the Bum Wizard's trash can, where the wizard discovers that the kid has become a chicken and eats him.
The story is intentionally built like a terrible chain of cause and effect. Every solution creates a much bigger problem, and the Bum Wizard operates by his own strange logic. He isn't necessarily evil or good. He grants the request exactly as he understands it and then accepts whatever happens afterward as completely normal.
The comic ends with “Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)”, turning the entire story into one long setup for an incredibly stupid joke.
Bum Wizard represents the way I like turning ordinary things I notice around me into characters and stories. Someone you might pass on the street without thinking twice can become a wizard with his own rules, powers, and completely absurd universe.
2025
6 × 8 in.
Watercolor and Ink on Paper
A mysterious homeless wizard stands over a trash can as a dark creature rises from inside. Bum Wizard comes from things I see while walking through the city, but takes those observations and pushes them into a completely fictional and ridiculous world.
The character eventually became the center of a comic I created but have not yet finished or released. In the story, a kid approaches the Bum Wizard with Hennessy because he wants the wizard to make him fly. The wizard technically gives him exactly what he asks for — just not in the way he expects. Instead of giving him the ability to fly, he turns him into a bird.
For a brief moment, the plan actually works. The kid can fly.
Then two guys shoot the bird out of the sky. He falls directly into the Bum Wizard's trash can, where the wizard discovers that the kid has become a chicken and eats him.
The story is intentionally built like a terrible chain of cause and effect. Every solution creates a much bigger problem, and the Bum Wizard operates by his own strange logic. He isn't necessarily evil or good. He grants the request exactly as he understands it and then accepts whatever happens afterward as completely normal.
The comic ends with “Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)”, turning the entire story into one long setup for an incredibly stupid joke.
Bum Wizard represents the way I like turning ordinary things I notice around me into characters and stories. Someone you might pass on the street without thinking twice can become a wizard with his own rules, powers, and completely absurd universe.