Wheel of Doom!

It is rolling and rolling and crushing with creativity!

The Comic Jam
The Comic Jam
4 min readJul 16, 2024

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We like to challenge ourselves here at The Comic Jam and one of our favorite theme is the Wheel of Doom! Writers are given a random theme, artists are given a random art style, everyone is paired randomly, and we get some amazing comics! Out of the way! The Wheel of Doom is a-rollin’!

Writer Theme: Treasure Map
Art Style: Sanrio

Story by Bear Claw | Art and Letters by Jack Van Thomme

Writer Theme: Prison Break
Art Style: Happy Tree Friends

Story by Aaron Brown | Art by Rachel Henry | Letters by Kevin D. Lintz

Writer Theme: Ghost Story
Art Style: Cubism

Story by Christian De Matteo | Art by Aaron Brown | Letters by Tom Lynott

Writer Theme: Travelers
Art Style: Simpsons

Story by Patrick Hicks | Art and Letters by Jack Van Thomme

Writer Theme: Time Travel
Art Style: Main Character Wolf

Story by Devin Whitlock | Art by Judah Jones | Letters by Kevin D. Lintz

Bear Claw is a writer and artist who likes fantasy, horror, and cartoon related stuff. He likes drawing and writing with a fantastical and dark bend to it.

Jack Van Thomme illustrates comics and pitches in when he can. You can see the things he likes to draw and read the things he likes to talk about on Twitter and Instagram @Real_JackVT https://www.instagram.com/real_jackvt/

Aaron Brown is fully operational and all of his circuits are functioning perfectly. Living in Massachusetts he is the creator of #IOTCOMIC and the fortune telling comic Casbah The Rock. Caricaturist and solid band name inventor. Find his work at https://www.frogking.art/

Rachel (she/her) is a California based artist with a quirky style, as she has been told. She likes cartoons, cute things, and spooky/creepy things. Puns, dark humor, and aged references are perfecto. See her work at https://www.instagram.com/rachelghenry/.

Kevin D. Lintz is a comic book letterer, writer, and editor. He learned his skills in a Comics Experience class and honed them on the mean streets of his all-ages comic book, Team SLUG. He startles his family by making sound effect noises out loud to try and translate them into written words. He has even watched “Helvetica”, the full-length feature movie about the font Helvetica. https://lintzlettering.com/

Christian De Matteo is a writer and college professor, founder of Tellworthy.com and co-founder of FugitivePoems.com with artist-extraordinaire James Lines. He loves all forms of art and entertainment, enjoys long walks on the beach and other less sandy locations, and is fatally allergic to fluffy cats (in case you wanted to get rid of him). He can be found pontificating/dad-joking on Twitter: @CDMetc and @FugitivePoems. He cannot draw. Like at all.

Tom Lynott lives in Arizona with his adorable wife, two boys and a Corgi / Border-Collie mix named Ace. He took part in Comics Experience’s Introduction to Lettering Comics class in May 2021. You can see more of his work at https://tomlynottcomiclettering.myportfolio.com/. He has also been known to script a story or two.

Patrick Hicks lives in Minnesota and has been writing since that time he shattered his leg in 7th grade. He’s written short stories, comics, and once spent a year interviewing a former Mafia Made Man and writing a novel of his life (seriously). Has been known to drop everything and start structuring a new story at all hours of the night. He loves discussing outlines and story structure and can be reached on https://www.instagram.com/patrickhickspy/

Devin Whitlock is a writer and editor who helps run the Chicago Public Library s Comics Book Club, all of which you can read about in his newsletter (https://devinwhitlock.substack.com/). He has comics in two forthcoming anthologies and was a semifinalist for the Negative Spaces Diversity Comic Book Writing Competition. You can follow him on Instagram (https://instagram.com/devinagonistes) or Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/devinagonistes.bsky.social)

Judah is an independent cartoonist from Long Island who likes drawing anything from horrors from The Void and silly little cats.

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The Comic Jam
The Comic Jam

A group of independent artists and writers collaborating to create short comics based on weekly themes.