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My comic strip, graphic novel, comic book, children's book, and constructed websites: 





Political Cartoon Samples:
On one hand, I wouldn't mind doing political cartoons. But on the other hand, I know how intolerant and hateful some people can be when you disagree with them politically. Like the people whom these ones would offend.


Star Wars Samples:
Here are some illustrations of some random pop culture characters from TV shows and movies that I loved when I was growing up. Mainly Star Wars and Transformers, both of which I owe a great deal of my childhood memories and imagination to, and inspired me to be an artist when I was as young as I could remember. My objective with these was to try out for comic book companies with them. Here are some of my Star Wars illustrations. I can actually do better now, but they still aren't too shabby, especially the 1999 ones. The characters are all owned by Lucasfilm, obviously.

Note: Most of these aren't colored, as I did them before I had a computer. However, the Darth Maul bust was colored by art marker and the background by Photoshop.

Transformers Samples:
Here are some illustrations of some popular Takara/Hasbro's Transformers: Generation One characters. I don't care for the modern day Transformers series; the cartoon by Sunbow/Marvel that aired from 1984-1987 (which are all available on DVD) was everything to me when I was a kid, and still admire them twenty years later.

Note: Same as above, mostly uncolored because I didn't have a computer when I drew these. The colored Bumblebee, Hot Rod, Optimus Prime, and Megatron were colored years later using Corel Photo House before I learned how to use Adobe Photoshop. I could add more gradients and effects if I had used Photoshop, and did add a little. Please note that these Transformers were drawn prior to Dreamwave's fantastic meched-out Transformers comic books were out. If I drew them nowadays, I'd likely adopt some of the similar styles that they used. These illustrations were based more after the animated series and Movie that ran from 1984-1987, which I love to no end.

Additional Samples:
Here are a few illustrations that I did for a writer friend who goes by the nickname of Uni. He was co-writing for a book that had these fantasy characters. I spent quite some time on specifically the ink work, which is some of my best stuff, so I wanted to show it here as well.:

In addition to Tee and Wee, Robert Buchanan also had me draw illustrations for a short story of his. But the project was placed on hiatus so we could tackle Tee and Wee. Here are a few pencilled and inked pages from "Sara: Stray" for your viewing pleasure.

The text of this story is omitted and © copyright Robert Buchanan. If interested, here are Robert's blog, pictures, and Simpy websites.

Experience & Awards:
I started doing cartoons and comic books when I was a little kid as far back as I can remember. I was drawing Frosty the Snowman when I was barely old enough to walk. I made my first comic strip, Mr. Butts, when I was under ten years old and used to get in trouble in Elementary School doing them. In Middle School, I again got into more trouble than good with my practical joke comic strips mocking my friends and completely destroying some teachers that I didn't care for. By High School, the trend continued, as I continued to get in trouble for them. That was until the High School newspaper's editor/teacher spotted my art and instantly asked me to be on his art staff, where I stopped getting in trouble and started getting positive attention. I drew Crusher Comics and occasional news-related illustrations for Oswego High School's Buccaneer Bulletin from1989-1992and I have them here. I was proud to accomplish many accolades during this era, as I won The Empire State School Press Association's First Place Certificate for the Best Cartoon in New York State of the academic school year of 1989-1990.I also won First Place two times and Second Place one time for The Syracuse Newspapers High School Press Day's Editorial Writing/Cartoon Contests during the years of1990-1992, which has, to my knowledge, a streak that is unmatched before or since. I then took assorted cartooning and commercial art adult education classes during and after high school, and have a degree in cartooning/graphic art from Oswego. I've been writing & illustrating Chrusher Comics since 1988, and Towner comics from 1997, all without pay (other than the Towner cartoons that double as Galletta's ads in Oswego's Palladium Times newspaper every May. Thousands of samples of my illustrations are above. I have been art director, advertisement illustrator and co-website designer for Galletta's Greenhouse for well over ten years now, where my illustrated advertisements have been appearing in local newspapers. Of course, I've been a florist there since I was a kid, because it is owned by my family, and it is my primary job while I concentrate on my artwork in the off-season.

Artistic influences
(and my favorite available pop-culture movies, books, and score CDs):
Big influences in my creative input are mostly fairly popular in the modern pop culture that I grew up on in the late seventies, eighties, and early nineties. Initially, I was greatly creatively influenced by filmmakers George Lucas for his entire Star Wars Saga and Steven Spielberg )for his better movies, though recently his output has disappointed me). Then, along with comic strips in general, the mid-1980's era Transformers: Generation One cartoons & The Movie (1986) and 1980's era G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero cartoons and comics by Marvel and Sunbow, brought me a long way in terms of my desire to be a cartoonist/graphic artist. I don't care for most modern revisions of either series, but I endlessly love their '80s incarnations. I also own large collections of the above noted franchises. Later on, comic book artists Todd McFarlane, Jim Lee, Arthur Adams, Michael Turner, along with cartoonist Bill Watterson (for, obviously, his comic strip, "Calvin and Hobbes"), and comic book writer/creator Stan Lee all influenced my illustration and cartooning skills, playing a big role in development of my artistic abilities. All of the above influenced my style and some people can still spot it even years later. I'm also a fan of writers Eric Van Lustbader for his Nicholas Linnear novels and Larry Hama for his impressive run in the 1980s-90s G.I. Joe series. Both of these writers had the largest impact on my storytelling with their long and detailed story arcs featuring masters of ninjutsu and deep-rooted military operations, and my love of many Asian and Oriental cultures. My love of this kind of storytelling seems to be out in today's microwave attention span culture, as webcomics more popular than mine seem to show. I also greatly enjoy the world-view philosophies and apologetics of Ravi Zacharias and Bob Enyart. However, perhaps last but not least, my greatest artistic role model is countless multi-time award-winning composer John Williams, who's world-renowned music, tireless work ethic over nearly half a century and profound and understated success are such a deep inspiration for me, that I have a world-class collection of his music on CD, LP, and DVD. A good chunk of my favorite TV shows, movies, and soundtrack CDs are found on this page. I recommend them to anybody that hasn't seen them, and buy them on Amazon.com via my links if you'd like to support my work. But none of these role models and inspirations can be anything without hard work, support of family, friends, teachers, and God-given talent.

Hobbies and Pastimes:
My hobbies are a treasure trove of what one would call guilty pleasures. Perhaps my favorite is racing go-karts. This is a website that features me, my friends, and family go-kart racing every weekend behind Galletta's Greenhouse and Oswego Speedway from June-October in Oswego, NY. While it is meant to document the all of races with photos, video clips, and statistics, I often throw a little humor into it, with mixed results (some people love it and some people think that it is an insult to racing or something). We have a ton of fun karting, but I also have fun on the website design, the DVDs and photo captures, the occasionally comedic photo captions, low-res video clips from my DVDs, and many of the kart paintjobs. I am also an avid collector and collect countless things such as toys pop-culture collectibles, and DVDs, with large and valuable collections of many of the above noted things.

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All artwork and information on this website is authored by and copyrighted by Chris Galletta Stevens. It is meant to be read by people who enjoy my comics and/or are interested in commissioning the author to create artwork and/or websites. If you are on these websites to dig up information about me for any other purpose, then you're an idiot, because if the author put it online, doesn't that mean that he wants everybody to see it? You know who you are, and you already made an @$$ of yourself with your factually incorrect mockery of me, so give it up please. Thanks.