the soul of my artistic identity
Micah Stillwater has taken an interesting public eye during the last year since I decided to publish The Heartwood Trilogy. As the protagonist, people…know him now. And people sort of know that he’s been around for a while, but that doesn’t seem to quite cover it.
Truthfully, Micah is in a large way how I’ve chosen to identify myself within my work, in the sense of a Mary Sue or a self-insert. I don’t mind admitting that, as I’ve never claimed not to be that type of artist or writer. And anyway, trying to deny it would be selling myself short of how much he’s done for me as a character.
Micah has always been two steps ahead of me, always knowing me deeper than I do and in turn himself. He stumbled through our teen years, into adulthood, to come to star in his own trilogy. Oh yeah! He’s even on my leg now.
There are few projects he hasn’t at least made a cameo in because I simply can’t resist. Writing him is like slipping back into my favorite sweater, keeping me grounded in myself. He is ever a comfort, ever full of wisdom and ever prepared to call me on my bullshit.
A Gallery of Micah
Micah’s roles in my stories
Check out Micah’s role in each of my projects over the years. Sometimes he’d just pop into the background, other times he’d have a small storyline of his own. There’s been an ebb and flow, until he came into a lead role in my return to graphic novels writing Code: Compromised and remained in a lead role to star in The Heartwood Trilogy (when I discovered I kind of, sort of wrote him to be mentally ill).
A visual tour of Micah through the years
