NAME

Joe Fauvel

 

COLLEGE

University of Massachusetts -Lowell

 

MAJOR

Graphic Design, Minor - Art History

 

COMICS I WORK ON

CRY

Assassins' Guild

Night Shift Tales

 

MY FAVORITE ARTISTS

Frank Miller

John Romita JR

Bernie Wrightson

Frank Cho

Ron Frenz

Erik Larsen

 

MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS

Daredevil

Hobgoblin

Doctor Doom

Savage Dragon

 

MY FAVORITE COMICS

Star Wars

Savage Dragon

 

MY FAVORITE MOVIES

Star Wars

Unbreakable

Rocky

Jurassic Park

 

TOOLS OF THE TRADE I USE

MiCron Pens .005-.08

Sharpies

Staedtler HB Pencils

Strathmore Bristol Vellum Paper

MAC (no other allowed!)

 

ALL ABOUT ME!

Welcome to the CRY website. I’m the creator and artist, Joe Fauvel. I have been doing CRY for a few years now. It’s very fun and full filling. Nothing better then meeting with the people who have gotten the book and tell me how they enjoyed it, waiting for the next issue. Makes it all worthwhile.

 

It can be very cool publishing your own comic book. sort of like a fake celeb, especially in your family. I was the first college grad in my whole family and in graphic design, no less. I don’t know where I got my creative traits from but no one else I know is in a creative field in my family.  So CRY is very well known in my family circles. My parents seem to be my biggest fans, pawning the book to everyone.

 

I started collecting comics in the 2nd grade, immediately I was drawn to the art. I remember producing my own comic stories on 5.5x8 paper. Was mostly Marvel characters (was way into Spider-man then) and some of my own. I knew this is what I wanted to do for a living.

 

After graduating high school (and doing samples after samples) I went to college at UMass-Lowell and got into graphic design but still did a lot of comic work for myself. I started going to cons and getting critiques. Back in 1999 I was married, working in Boston at an ad agency and bored stiff. I made the decision to go to the Joe Kubert School in Dover, NJ. I couldn’t believe I actually got in. Well when I went there I was on the older side (26 at the time) and was learning very little that I didn’t already know. I did however get a new appreciation of inking.

 

After a year at JKS, I needed to go back to work at my old job. During that summer I met up with Randy Taylor on the old Wizard message boards, he was looking for an inker for a project he was working on called The Foundation. We worked on a whole book with a publisher only to have it scraped at the last minute because of financial issues. But soon after Randy came up with a new idea called Assassins’ Guild and met up with penciler Dustin Weaver. It was a great combination and stuff was really coming together. We published a few issues and then Dustin moved onto a gig at Dark Horse and now Marvel. Inkers, however, are plentiful.  Randy and I, though, established our own publisher, Night Shift Studios. Where both CRY and Assassins’ Guild are published under.

 

Well in my downtime and talking with my (then) wife, we came up with an idea what would turn into CRY. I decided to have a go at it. Do a sort of a one shot issue to see how the response would be. Well it was great! People seemed to dig it. I have done a ton of shows all over and CRY seemed to have a little following. So here I am a few years later and still doing it.

 

I live in Orlando, FL now, working as a graphic designer at the University of Central Florida. I do CRY in my spare time and also still do a ton of shows (see the Conventions to see where I will be). I have no intentions of stopping, it’s funny how the comic sort of writes itself. Glad I have an iPhone that I can store ideas in, right now I have a few issues worth.

 

I have also written my own book called Finding Brandy. It’s my heartfelt story about my baby girl that I lost in August of 2010. She was very special to me. If your interested click on the banner above or HERE!

 

If you would like to get in touch with me with any questions or comments feel free to HERE! Enjoy and thanks for looking at the site!