ILLUSTRATOR RISES FROM THE ASHES WITH A NEW INDIE COMIC: METAZOA

May 28th 2016

Sandy Brion Spreitz once watched his life’s work burn to ash. Ten thousand pages of illustrations and paintings, countless musical compositions, his laptop, as well as a 700 page hand-written manuscript, went up in flames when his one bedroom cottage caught fire on the 3000 block of Canyon Road in Burlingame, CA.

"Ten thousand pages of original paintings - gone!" Sandy said. "Every painting is like a child, and I've just lost a whole country."

Sandy would have lost his life as well, if not for his orange and white tabby cat named Mo, who kept whining outside the cottage until Sandy woke up and escaped the blaze. That was nearly eight years ago. *

Today, Sandy has just released the first issue of a digital comic book that is two years in the making. He illustrated, colored and co-created the comic with his friend and former neighbor to that ill-fated cottage, Peter Marshall Smith. The comic is an allegorical piece of science fiction in the realm of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, an ideological critique of class inequity entitled: METAZOA. Animals have always inspired Sandy, but there’s a special place in his heart from Mo, the cat who saved his life, so he could live to draw again.

“Now, I work 7 days a week on METAZOA,“ says Sandy. “I wake up and get right to work.  At night, I dream of METAZOA. This project has been an act of love. And it has renewed my interest in all things.”

METAZOA #1 is an independent digital comic available for download at ComiXology Submit: http://bit.ly/1HkepJW