I’ve written a lot about what I create and publish. That’s my professional face, but there’s more to me than that. This background material is more about me as a person, and may not interest you. That’s fine, and you are invited to skip this post if you wish. I just feel that it fills out a more rounded representation of who Scott Story is.
I grew up as a rural farm kid, but I was interested from the beginning with history, making art, and writing. I have little comics that I drew when I was six years old and up; dozens of prose short stories; and lots of drawings and paintings. I was drawing from before I can remember. It’s in my DNA, I guess. My sister is also an artist, and my mother was always keenly interested in art, and my grandmother was a respected local painter and graphic artist. But, enough about my origins.
Nowadays, besides the stuff you know I create, I also love music, woodworking and building, animals, and sustainable living.
As a hobby musician, I have spent four decades playing guitar, and a variety of stringed instruments, with love for American roots music, folk and singer-songwriter music, rock-n-roll, blues, and a wide range of genres. I’m a good enough a singer that I can sing in tune and sing harmony, but not so good that people would pay to listen. Again, I’m a hobby musician, through and through. These days, I’ve fallen in love with the ukulele, and I’m exploring a new, more rhythmic approach to music. Ukulele is similar to and even a bit interchangeable with guitar, but the mindset is completely different.
After decades of collecting models that I planned to build, I’ve taken to constructing them again. Mostly vintage airplanes, locomotives, and sailing vessels. Some of these are balsa and paper, but most are plastic. I’ve recently acquired an airbrush, and I’m trying to do up these kits proper. I’ve already built the Civil War vessels the Monitor and Merrimack, and now I’m working on a Trevithic locomotive.
It’s been a lifelong ambition to acquire a miniature live-steam locomotive. That may be within reach soon, but we’ll see. I have a live-steam miniature farm tractor that my grandfather got me, and it’s among my most precious possessions.
When it comes to history, everyone knows I’m all-in for the medieval European period. However, I’ve also always been interested in the American Civil War, World War II History, ancient Egyptian history, Zeppelins and airships, art history, the Technological Revolution at the 19th century’s close, and the paleontology of dinosaurs. My curiosity has a very wide scope.
I’m a firm believer in trying to live more sustainably, and recycle and reuse.
I’m a lifelong animal lover and believe in animal rights. I don’t hunt, but I’m not against hunting (as long as it’s not sport hunting). I’m not a vegetarian. There are ethical ways we can co-exist with the various life-forms that share this world with us. When I was a kid, and didn’t know any better, I befriended a wildcat on the farm I grew up on. She let me play with her kittens, and I protected them. Essentially, I have an uncanny empathy with animals, and they seem to recognize that and respond accordingly.
There’s lots more to talk about, but that’s probably enough for this post.
Scott is known for the rich detail, clever storytelling, and organic quality to his art. As a cartoonist, Scott is an all-purpose creator– he writes, pencils, inks, colors, letters and designs. Scott Story has also done advertising art; covers for books, CDs and tabletop games; movie, event and concert posters; interior art for tabletop games; logos and website graphics; and a wide range of other media. Scott was trained in traditional media, such as acrylics and water colors, but now he divides his time between the traditional and digital art worlds. He is in demand for his digital painting skills, used on covers, posters and prints.
As the creative director of Story Studios LLC., he has published two graphic novels, Johnny Saturn: Synns of the Father, and Johnny Saturn: Homeland Insecurity, with two more in the process of being completed. Story Studios has also published seventeen comics, a sketchbook, and a pinup book. He has written articles for Blueline Pro’s Sketch Magazine, and prose stories for print anthologies and the web. His webcomic, Johnny Saturn, is a past winner of the Webcomics Readers Choice Awards, and Scott was a speaker at the prestigious Graphic Engagement academic conference hosted by the Purdue University Comparative Literature Program.
Scott is a member of the Indy Webcomic Group, and he was the creator and a founding member of the highly successful Collective of Heroes, a juried collective of indie superhero webcomics.
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