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 started drawing, I hadn’t in ages. The only time I wasn’t drawing, I was spitting mad rhymes at the friend who got me drawing. One such sesh “…hot wing and a prayer” slipped out. “Sounds like a cartoon dynamic duo!” we laughed. Thus was born Hot Wing & A Prayer, the upstart supernova motivational tag team coming for Tony Roberts’ crown.

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 music video 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’s IYKYK: The Mystery Trait, a gamified 7,777-NFT collection with traits from worldwide oddities to regional cryptids, historic figures to folkloric looks.

As for me, I spent decades in NYC moving between uptown and downtown theater, music, art and dance worlds, and (more) decades in Venice Beach creating digital media and writing — journalism, copy, scripts, music. Surfing some. I live up the coast in Ojai, CA, now, miraculously still ticking despite a couple of walks on the wild side.

Big up for checking out Hot Wing & A Prayer’s IYKYK: The Mystery Trait. Look for more such HWAP coming soon!