John contributed to Warren's Empowered Special #4: Animal Style , written specifically for John after Warren "admired from afar" his mecha skills. John delivered 24 color pages plus at least 40 design sheets. Warren wrote: "What would be a chore for me is a joy for John to draw." He called the sheet count "above and beyond the call of comics duty." Warren is also one of the artists John cited most as a direct influence, particularly for the Dirty Pair work , John described him as drawing those characters "with equal shamelessness."
John produced the exclusive variant cover for Princeless: The Pirate Princess #1 for Big Planet Comics, January 2015. He colored Adrienne Ashe first , "she is the star after all, supporting cast has to wait their turn." One of the most finished pieces in the archive.
Creator of Gold Digger , the most extensive, long-running self-contained North American comic produced by a single creator, running 300 issues from 1991 to 2022. Perry wrote, drew, inked, colored, and lettered it himself on a monthly schedule for thirty years. A Marine Corps veteran who conceived the idea during the Gulf War ("There wasn't anything to stop me from drawing pin-ups for my crew"), and describes the series as Indiana Jones meets Final Fantasy. John drew Gold Digger fan art continuously across the archive, corresponded with Perry in comments.
One of John's closest friends and creative collaborators. Also known online as Aerianne , his OC and alter-ego, Aerianne Conner, a badass fighter pilot, Highlander-style immortal, and commander of the Terrapin Corps, an elite intergalactic squadron. John drew her for him multiple times. Phil is a University of Maryland computer science graduate , hence the Terrapin Corps name, and the coloring book John did for College Park businesses nearby. They both came up in the same Maryland anime community: same conventions, same newsgroups, same mid-90s internet. Phil colored Uzi Cat, Tachiku, Pool Girls, and others , John called it a mutual gift exchange. He has been drawing and photographing since 1994, and has 64,592 photos on Flickr, mostly from Katsucon and anime conventions across two decades. His old personal site and Aerianne's eyrie.org page are still up, frozen in early-2000s web amber. He keeps a page of art commissions and collaborations with John on his personal site.
A professional graphic designer and illustrator from British Columbia who went freelance after nearly a decade in design , and the single most present person in John's entire archive. 185 comments across 13 pieces, plus credited directly with influencing costume design: John noted AJ's pants in Maid and Machine were "suggested by @bandeau so I thought I'd try them for a spin."
Writer and creator of Marilith (2004–2009), a manga-style action-comedy webcomic about an assassin trying to retire. John was the second artist on the series, taking over from Joe Fouts and drawing the middle chapters in a style one reviewer described as emphasizing "action and superheroic proportions." He is credited by name in the print edition alongside Fouts and Fernando Furukawa. John also contributed steampunk airship concept art to a later KrazyKrow project that never came together. After John passed in January 2026, KrazyKrow left a tribute on his DeviantArt profile: "Your talent, kindness, and spirit, will be missed." His current ongoing comic is Spinnerette, a superhero comedy running since 2010.
The indie studio behind Evil Diva , the comic about a demon girl who wanted to be an angel. John contributed guest art and drew the Snow Devil pencils for a project with them. He used their account as a reaction stamp, which says something about how he felt about the book.
John was Mark Wheatley's assistant at Insight Studios for many years. Wheatley wrote after John's passing: "He was brilliant, a talented comic artist, designer, and excellent colorist. He was good with technology and helped me master several computer advances. We spent endless hours together hitting deadlines and catching naps on the floor of the studio. Ah, youth!" Wheatley believed John could have been a lead creator in his own right; John, by his own account, was more comfortable as an assistant.
Creator of Liberty Meadows , John drew Brandy Carter (on a Bubblegum Crisis Motoslave) using Cho's inks, crediting him directly. Cho also once told John, apparently in reference to one of his more elaborate pieces: "What is this, some weird sort of cry for help?" John included this in his artist description for the Navy Girl Aerial Demonstration Variant, calling it "almost as good as" his favorite comment ever. That tells you a lot about both of them.
Named 13 times across the archive as a collaborator, correspondent, and peer. Still very active , runs a Patreon, sells art books, and posts regularly across Bluesky, X and Instagram. His original characters Squeek and Shred are an ongoing comic series. The kind of artist John's world overlapped with naturally.