Loading ...Landry Walker and Eric Jones are a creative team, working together on comic books, toys and various art and writing projects for the last sixteen years. After meeting as teenagers in Northern California, they began collaborating on small press comics in 1990, culminating in their involvement with the underground comics collective Puppy Toss Artweirdcomicz.
Puppy Toss published an anthology called Skim Lizard, where Walker and Jones’ first comics short story Filthy Habits – a comic detailing the exploits of a ne’er-do-well slacker and his companions - saw print. In 1993 comic book publisher Aeon approached the team, and they began a working relationship that yielded five full-length Filthy Habits comics and Skank Dick Skank – a popular mini comic about ska dancing.
In 1997 Skank Dick Skank caught the attention of legendary San Francisco music magazine BAM, and Walker and Jones embarked on a two-year stint producing music-related comic strips for the magazine under the banner X-Ray.
Around the same time they began working with BAM, Walker and Jones began their longest working association to date with SLG Publishing, home to numerous popular alternative and underground comics. Adopting X-Ray as their new title, the team continued examining their stable of Generation X characters, as well as beginning to dabble in short-form humor and fiction in the comic’s back pages. Developing these short stories led to their most popular creation, the little-kid-monster-world of Little Gloomy. Walker and Jones soon began work on a Little Gloomy series for SLG Publishing which debuted in 1999, where it became one of their best selling books for the year.
Little Gloomy was then spotted by Disney Adventures Magazine, who approached the team about producing short Little Gloomy stories for the magazine. In the ensuing years, Walker and Jones have had a long, successful run with Disney Adventures, producing many Little Gloomy stories, as well as countless more about yet another of their creations, bumbling sci-fi adventurer and elementary schooler Kid Gravity, a character and concept which have become quite popular in their own right. Walker and Jones have also written a number of stories for Disney Adventures featuring Disney’s own characters such as Kim Possible and Dave the Barbarian.
In 2005, Walker and Jones retooled Little Gloomy, re-imagining the concept as an old-school Saturday morning cartoon show. The characters’ designs were streamlined, and the series’ focus was moved from sprawling adventures to humorous vignettes, all with an eye toward capturing the feel of classic animated TV shows. Titled The Super-Scary Monster Show, the re-working has proven popular and very successful. To date, there have been several issues of The Super-Scary Monster Show released through SLG Publishing, as well as a number of stories for Disney Adventures Magazine.
Walker and Jones’ association with Disney also helped facilitate the 2006 partnering of Disney and SLG Publishing in producing comics based on Disney properties. Among these are The Haunted Mansion, Wonderland, Gargoyles and Tron. Walker and Jones themselves wrote SLG/Disney’s six issue Tron comic series, entitled “Ghost in the Machine”.
