Last updated July 6, 2007
John C. Worsley was born in 1978 in Sacramento, California, but has spent the last twenty years in
comically idyllic Portland, Oregon.
In addition to compulsively and self-consciously writing about himself in the third-person, his credits include having attended a mostly futile year of college at the University of Oregon, having released electronic music under monikers as oblique as lxl, xszi, 12:24, and lxgkd, co-founding a successful technology company, writing a somehow epic-yet-underwritten 600-page tome on SQL, developing and promptly abandoning Yet Another Superfluous Three-Letter Web Language, contributing 3D graphics and programming to Gus Van Sant's Elephant, and fleeing the full-time computer programming industry screaming.
Since 2003 John has been self-employed as a minimum-time programmer/over-time illustrator, self-publishing comics such as the science-fiction neomythological Painkillers, and the contemporary horror comic Dead Valentines.
He has also contributed illustrations to games such as Iron Realms' Achaea, Pinnacle's Deadlands: Reloaded and Wizkids' Pirates of the Spanish Main.
Staying generally active in the Miniature Comics Mecca that is the Portland Comics Scene, he is also the maintainer of Shannon Wheeler's Too Much Coffee Man website and the Stumptown Comics Fest.
Once for six months he walked up a volcano every night. Any given night you might find him there.
Atascadero, Escondido.
In addition to compulsively and self-consciously writing about himself in the third-person, his credits include having attended a mostly futile year of college at the University of Oregon, having released electronic music under monikers as oblique as lxl, xszi, 12:24, and lxgkd, co-founding a successful technology company, writing a somehow epic-yet-underwritten 600-page tome on SQL, developing and promptly abandoning Yet Another Superfluous Three-Letter Web Language, contributing 3D graphics and programming to Gus Van Sant's Elephant, and fleeing the full-time computer programming industry screaming.
Since 2003 John has been self-employed as a minimum-time programmer/over-time illustrator, self-publishing comics such as the science-fiction neomythological Painkillers, and the contemporary horror comic Dead Valentines.
He has also contributed illustrations to games such as Iron Realms' Achaea, Pinnacle's Deadlands: Reloaded and Wizkids' Pirates of the Spanish Main.
Staying generally active in the Miniature Comics Mecca that is the Portland Comics Scene, he is also the maintainer of Shannon Wheeler's Too Much Coffee Man website and the Stumptown Comics Fest.
Once for six months he walked up a volcano every night. Any given night you might find him there.
Atascadero, Escondido.
