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What up, what up? I'm glad that you the reader has chosen to read my profile and find out a little about me and what it is I want to create for the common reader lookin' for something new.
My name is Koran Curtis. I was born and raised in North Philly and have lived here all my life. When I was a kid I always loved fantasies and stories with a lot of action and drama. One of my favorite movies growing up was and still is "Robocop". There are a number of reasons why this movie stands out to me but the one that stands out the most is the level of action that the movie has. From the first scene of Ed 209 Blowing the guy away in the office, to the mutilation of Murphy I was hooked.
I was only four at the time and loved it ever since. For me the toys my mom and pop would buy were my only means to escape the real world, and step into the ones I loved to watch on TV, when I turned seven my dad brought me my first comic book. It was a Superman comic. I wish I could remember what it was about or who he was fighting but I can't, all I do remember is it spawned a new world for me to explore and I let my mind soar into the comic world that was just introduced to me. From that point I started to teach myself to draw the art that I loved as best as I could.
My friends were not into comics at all so it was me reading my comics while they were playing football. I was studying the way Todd Mcfarlane was drawing Spiderman when everyone else was playing basketball on the crate hanging out on the light pole. So as you may have noticed by now I was never into sports.
The comics had me hooked in. After a while my mom and dad started to see the love I had picked up for drawing and placed me in Art school were my skills increased. The programs my parents enrolled me in were ok but didn't teach me the fundamentals of drawing. I taught myself and but was stuck with my own ways of drawing the comic book hero's I loved.
Once I hit high school my skills began to pick up a lot more but I began to stop drawing as much as I wanted to. The love of comic's was going up against my love for girls and my drawing was starting to fade away! It wasn't till my last year of high school I started to think about what I wanted to do with my life, for a moment it had seemed like I might have been going to the art institute of Philadelphia but the cost was too high for me, at that time in my life. I wanted to try something new and going to the art institute for special-effects technician seemed to be the right move. I was sure it was what I wanted. It was just finding a school that I could afford. Once I graduated high school I hit a wall, not taking the S.A.T. test for college made it hard to go to school, so I started to work from job to job trying to find one that would pay enough for me to go to school for something in the Media arts.
Two years had passed me before I had found a number that a close friend had given me years back, what had been passed to me changed my life. The name that was on this little piece of paper was "Paris"' a artist I had met when I was younger, through a neighbor that saw in me, (and still tells me to this day) how creative I can be. Her name is Ms. Janet and I thank her for that everyday.
When I made the call it took Paris a while to remember who I was but when I mentioned how I knew him and our meeting awhile back and it didn't take long before we were meeting at this house. We talked about what one another had been up to for the past 2 years and I told him I had lost the love to draw. He looked at me like I was crazy then offered me a spot to work with him drawing concepts for stories. I had to earn my place beside this well know artist even if he didn't think so. We were on the same page, he began to give me projects to work on, like drawing comic-strips and backgrounds to step my game up.
At the time I had placed myself in a film class in down town city hall in a building called the Art alliance of Philadelphia. There I was learning how to draw up story boards and create low budget pictures. The class was nothing major just a start up class for people who wanted to get into film, and I was just trying to find something to keep myself out of trouble at that time. When I passed the class all I had was a short movie I had wrote and a couple of videos of people rapping on tape.
It wasn't till I found myself getting into beefs with some guy's in the streets that I had to leave Philadelphia and move to Phoenix Arizona. I then started to write stories and enrolled myself in Collins College of Design and Media Art's. I had lived out in Phoenix for five months with a close friend before I found that I couldn't find any work, so I picked up moved back to Philly. Once back, I wanted to show Paris this new love for writing that I had and this time I was more than sure that this was what I wanted to do. Create the words, not just draw them, I wanted to create new, more powerful heroes and anti-heroes that blacks could relate to. Problems that blacks face every time we step outside. But more importantly I wanted to create stories that would make young blacks read and think.
I stared out writing a number of stories, from science fiction to action and drama. One of my earliest stories (created with the help of a friend) is one called, Gene Immortal. It centered around a young black scientist who wants to save the poor people of the future from a disease that has poisoned most the land, caused by years of war between the North and South Federation. After the North win's over the South, the North leaves the South to die out (that is the short version.)
I presented the story to Paris and he asked if I would like to be apart of something he was starting up, a magazine unlike any so far. And before he could finish speaking I had signed on! This was it, I always wanted a chance to create something new for readers and myself to escape to, I then created " A Hero's Diary". A tale about a man who lost a friend and used his schooling to travel the world seeking a means to fight injustice and turn fear against those who prey on the fearful. Think of it as a Batman for the Hood. But with more edge to it. I never would have thought in a million years that I would end up writing stories, but here I am and I hope that you the reader will follow me into my world of dark and crazy stories with down to earth people and criminals that live in our everyday life.
Gene Immortal and A Hero's Diary are just the two that I've created, but there will be more as I work with the creative mind's behind Gritz and Gravy! And with that said I welcome to all, a new age of story telling that is upon us !
My name is Koran Curtis. I was born and raised in North Philly and have lived here all my life. When I was a kid I always loved fantasies and stories with a lot of action and drama. One of my favorite movies growing up was and still is "Robocop". There are a number of reasons why this movie stands out to me but the one that stands out the most is the level of action that the movie has. From the first scene of Ed 209 Blowing the guy away in the office, to the mutilation of Murphy I was hooked.
I was only four at the time and loved it ever since. For me the toys my mom and pop would buy were my only means to escape the real world, and step into the ones I loved to watch on TV, when I turned seven my dad brought me my first comic book. It was a Superman comic. I wish I could remember what it was about or who he was fighting but I can't, all I do remember is it spawned a new world for me to explore and I let my mind soar into the comic world that was just introduced to me. From that point I started to teach myself to draw the art that I loved as best as I could.
My friends were not into comics at all so it was me reading my comics while they were playing football. I was studying the way Todd Mcfarlane was drawing Spiderman when everyone else was playing basketball on the crate hanging out on the light pole. So as you may have noticed by now I was never into sports.
The comics had me hooked in. After a while my mom and dad started to see the love I had picked up for drawing and placed me in Art school were my skills increased. The programs my parents enrolled me in were ok but didn't teach me the fundamentals of drawing. I taught myself and but was stuck with my own ways of drawing the comic book hero's I loved.
Once I hit high school my skills began to pick up a lot more but I began to stop drawing as much as I wanted to. The love of comic's was going up against my love for girls and my drawing was starting to fade away! It wasn't till my last year of high school I started to think about what I wanted to do with my life, for a moment it had seemed like I might have been going to the art institute of Philadelphia but the cost was too high for me, at that time in my life. I wanted to try something new and going to the art institute for special-effects technician seemed to be the right move. I was sure it was what I wanted. It was just finding a school that I could afford. Once I graduated high school I hit a wall, not taking the S.A.T. test for college made it hard to go to school, so I started to work from job to job trying to find one that would pay enough for me to go to school for something in the Media arts.
Two years had passed me before I had found a number that a close friend had given me years back, what had been passed to me changed my life. The name that was on this little piece of paper was "Paris"' a artist I had met when I was younger, through a neighbor that saw in me, (and still tells me to this day) how creative I can be. Her name is Ms. Janet and I thank her for that everyday.
When I made the call it took Paris a while to remember who I was but when I mentioned how I knew him and our meeting awhile back and it didn't take long before we were meeting at this house. We talked about what one another had been up to for the past 2 years and I told him I had lost the love to draw. He looked at me like I was crazy then offered me a spot to work with him drawing concepts for stories. I had to earn my place beside this well know artist even if he didn't think so. We were on the same page, he began to give me projects to work on, like drawing comic-strips and backgrounds to step my game up.
At the time I had placed myself in a film class in down town city hall in a building called the Art alliance of Philadelphia. There I was learning how to draw up story boards and create low budget pictures. The class was nothing major just a start up class for people who wanted to get into film, and I was just trying to find something to keep myself out of trouble at that time. When I passed the class all I had was a short movie I had wrote and a couple of videos of people rapping on tape.
It wasn't till I found myself getting into beefs with some guy's in the streets that I had to leave Philadelphia and move to Phoenix Arizona. I then started to write stories and enrolled myself in Collins College of Design and Media Art's. I had lived out in Phoenix for five months with a close friend before I found that I couldn't find any work, so I picked up moved back to Philly. Once back, I wanted to show Paris this new love for writing that I had and this time I was more than sure that this was what I wanted to do. Create the words, not just draw them, I wanted to create new, more powerful heroes and anti-heroes that blacks could relate to. Problems that blacks face every time we step outside. But more importantly I wanted to create stories that would make young blacks read and think.
I stared out writing a number of stories, from science fiction to action and drama. One of my earliest stories (created with the help of a friend) is one called, Gene Immortal. It centered around a young black scientist who wants to save the poor people of the future from a disease that has poisoned most the land, caused by years of war between the North and South Federation. After the North win's over the South, the North leaves the South to die out (that is the short version.)
I presented the story to Paris and he asked if I would like to be apart of something he was starting up, a magazine unlike any so far. And before he could finish speaking I had signed on! This was it, I always wanted a chance to create something new for readers and myself to escape to, I then created " A Hero's Diary". A tale about a man who lost a friend and used his schooling to travel the world seeking a means to fight injustice and turn fear against those who prey on the fearful. Think of it as a Batman for the Hood. But with more edge to it. I never would have thought in a million years that I would end up writing stories, but here I am and I hope that you the reader will follow me into my world of dark and crazy stories with down to earth people and criminals that live in our everyday life.
Gene Immortal and A Hero's Diary are just the two that I've created, but there will be more as I work with the creative mind's behind Gritz and Gravy! And with that said I welcome to all, a new age of story telling that is upon us !