Brad, here. My circus my monkeys…

A brain injury sparked Hot Wing & A Prayer. It left me with double vision for months, and I couldn’t read. So I drew, I hadn’t in ages. Spitting mad rhymes at the friend who got me drawing, “…hot wing and a prayer” slipped out of who knows where? “Sounds like a cartoon dynamic duo!” we laughed. Thus was born Hot Wing & A Prayer, the supernova upstart motivational tag team coming for Tony Roberts’ crown of thorns.

I drew their origin story — my first comic book — in pen & ink, but ran into newb production challenges. I switched to digital drawing, which I’d never done. Beyond the comic, I drew gag panels and strips, cooked up games and merch, built a website, wrote theme songs, DIY-ed a video clip HWAP recap…

I want Hot Wing & A Prayer to be a Web 3 joint — the future, and all — so I also played with NFT ideas. The result? Hot Wing & A Prayer: IYKYK, an NFT-as-global-scavenge with rangy-er-than-normal traits.

Speaking of rangy and abnormal, my background cuts a weird, wide swath across American subculture, with decades in NYC moving between the theater, dance, music and art worlds, and more decades in Venice Beach doing journalism, digital media, music, entertainment writing and surfing. I live in Ojai, CA, now, miraculously still ticking despite a couple health-as-blood-sport episodes.

Big up for checking out Hot Wing & A Prayer: IYKYK. Look for much more HWAP upcoming!