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Screamin’ Rabbit Studios was born 1999 in Overland Park, KS. As for I can remember I went for a walk to an ATM to withdraw some cash and I had to walk to a bank, but to get there I had to get past these grassy lanes the separated the cars to get to the ATM and the bank tellers. Out the corner of my eye I notice something moving and then something shot out in front of me and then ran right back towards me. I was a rabbit. I never been that close to a rabbit that was still alive and not on my dinner plate. For some reason this rabbit kept running around me and charging at me as if it wanted by to get back or away from something else. This had to be the craziest rabbit I’ve ever seen. I continued to walk to the ATM machine because it was only a few feet away from me and for some reason I happen to look down to where I was about to take my next step and notice a hole in the bush and something was moving in that hole. I bent down and looked into that hole and notice that there were a few baby bunnies in there and then the rabbit that was just standing still looking at me had to be the mother of those bunnies, So me forgetting what and episode of Leave it to Beaver taught me about people picking up baby bunnies I reached my hand inside the hole picking one of them up and with me being about 6’5 at the time like King Kong picking up that woman up to him. It let out one of the loudest screams that I could of never imagine that could come out of a rabbit’s mouth. It freaked me out and I ended up dropping the thing and walking to the ATM to getting the money that I was there to get.
One of the first groups I could think of that I’ve created were the Urban Knights, but at that time they were called first Night Force and then Night Club. How so many of them have changed since 1993. They were highly influenced by the X-Men at that time and you can see it. I was a young artist A Jim Lee and Carlos Pacheco wanted to be or some would say RIP-Off because I would trace over their original art and put my character design over a Jim Lee body.
Then in 1995 at Wyandotte High school in Kansas City Ks, in Mr. Kamper’s art class I met the guy who was going to change my life and how I thought about comics forever. Enter Derek Wallace. A bond was born. Still remember all those conversations about Age of Apocalypse as well as making fun how Batman and Robin had nipples on their costumes. I even went to my first comic book convention with Derek where we met Al Simmons who Spawn was based off of.
The unsinkable then happened and like they say all good things must come to an end and Derek was gone. Moved to another state and I had no one to talk about X-Men, Super Nintendo, and all other pop culture stuff we talked about day in and day out. My adult brain is sitting here thinking about why we never got each other home phone numbers. Back then there was no email, Facebook, IG, or hell, there were no cell phones
I took everything that I’ve learned from Derek and my conversations in the art room and pushed on. Still trying to make a Night Club/Urban Knights a comic book. Making some changes here and there changing a guy that can turn into a wolf hybrid now into a tiger hybrid.
Re-tweaking characters’ stories to fit real life events that happened to me in real life to make these characters’ stories more down to earth and personal to me, because each one of them have a part of me in them.
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