While most comic book creators outsource different aspects of the process, Gideon Brimingham is a one-man comic book band.
“Without using all the words, I just say I’m a comic book maker, comic creator,” Brimingham said. “But I do everything. I write. I illustrate. I color. I letter.”
Brimingham, an independent comic book writer and artist, is based in Chattanooga. Most writers hire artists and a team to help with production, but Brimingham liked the idea of having something that he created entirely himself, he said. But that means he had to get his illustration skills up to snuff.
Brimingham’s standards for comic illustration are high, and he said his initial work was a bit too rudimentary for his expectations. He spent a lot of time practicing before pouring himself into his first book, “Void Witch.” He decided in 2021 he wanted to make comic books and didn’t start on his first book until 2023, spending those two years refining his skills by drawing daily, he said.
Brimingham is a social worker by day. He minored in film while he was in college and still felt a need to tell stories, he said. Creating comic books is a passion.