Happy Birthday, Mom – Scott A. Story

Today would be my Mom’s birthday, and it’s the first one since she left us. I know that I should have some relatable message to post, but to be honest I still can’t get my head around her loss. The world hasn’t felt right since she passed, and it seems like my sense of equilibrium left with her. Does this make sense?

Mom always had regrets for how she raised Melissa and me. She said she should have gotten me braces, and she should have taken us to church more, and that she should have put me in a school for gifted kids. I would assure her that everything turned out fine, and it’s all exactly as it was supposed to be. I for one had no problem with how she raised us. She was a young woman on her own, doing the best she knew how, dealing with her own issues, and still everything worked out.

I still feel that way. I have no regrets for how Mom raised us, and I have lots of good memories of my childhood with her. She made a big effort to expose us to new ideas, plays, musicals, art, books, and experiences. She fed our natural curiosity. In fact, I see now that she was very curious herself, and she always welcomed learning.

I don’t know how else to say–I was lucky she was my Mom, super lucky. She didn’t put me down, or belittle my interests, and she let me explore who I was. For mom-craft, she gets and A+.

I can’t call her and tell her that. She knew, because I told her often. As a family, none of us are shy about sharing our feelings, and I’m glad I shared mine. Happy Birthday, Mom.

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Scott Story

Scott Story is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist who lives in the Midwestern USA. He has been involved in the comic industry since 1992, and webcomics since 2004. He has drawn comics for dozens of publishers including Image, Amp, Arrow, Digital Webbing, Arcana, Spinner Rack Comics, and many others.

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.