Stories & Graphic Novels about Culture, Identity, and Creativity
The short stories and graphic novels on this page are an attempt to put ideas about identity, culture, creativity, language, knowledge, and destiny into the narrative / story form, exploring how imagery and emotion might convey understanding of elusive and complex concepts.
The Mask is The World : Stories of Cultural Symbols
The 33 stories in “The Mask is the World” travel the world to imaginatively reflect on art, beauty, work, culture, creativity, and the group… among other things. Each story is a reflection on one – or more – cultural symbols and the deeper meanings embedded in them.
These stories are an exploration of culture, of the world’s symbols, of the meanings that make the personalities of its different peoples, and of their adventures enriched by people’s souls and contemplation.

Graphic Novels
Land of Iron
“Land of Iron” is a short graphic novel about a man’s struggle. He is torn between his duties and drive for achievement, and his soul’s pull towards a life of meaning, peace, and beauty. The struggle, that many of us face, usually ends in an unfortunate way.
The Citadel and the Crowd
The Citadel and The Crowd is an artistic contemplation into individuality, promise, creativity, and the invisible shackles that surrounds us. The story is told through poetic images and symbols that convey many hidden meanings and themes.
Persistence of Defeat
This story goes through the mind of an old ‘king’ with a mysterious past. Images start creeping into his seemingly blissful life, revealing a wide set of possibilities and scenarios about his past self. As they destroy his sanity and tranquility, he is forced to confront the past and think about choices he has made.
Passing Clouds : Short Stories
“Passing Clouds” is a book of strange short stories.
They happen in peculiar universes, with eerie laws, to unusual characters…
But they are not completely implausible. They are about what matters in our lives. They contemplate knowledge, will, beauty, culture, creativity, language… and identity.
Obscure, and purposefully convoluted, as they sometimes are, the stories are connected by a visible thread. There are symbols everywhere, and each story has reflections of other stories and popular works of art/literature.
Beyond : Fuzzy on the Dark Side
Approximate Thinking, and How the mists of creativity and progress can become a prison of illusion
Check out the page describing “Fuzzy on the Dark Side”, where I explore approximate thinking and the problems that reside in the inadequate treatment of incompleteness.




