Top Five with Freddie Crocheron

What are your top 5 comics EVER?

Freddie Crocheron is a Columbus-based cartoonist who is best known for his stickers, animations, comics, and fine arts exhibitions. His work pays homage to a blend of underground comics and cartoons from the 80s and 90s while embracing his love for hip hop and black culture. He is currently the head of programming for ROY G BIV gallery in Franklinton. You can find his work on Instagram @freddie.crocheron.

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My Freelancer Days for Zuda Comics

(That Time I Made Webcomics for DC)

In 2007 at the age of 26, I found myself living alone in a small apartment in Meadville, Pennsylvania. I had landed there a couple of years earlier, having accepted a job at the local newspaper, the Meadville Tribune, as a graphic designer/production artist. At the time in 2005, I was pretty happy with the $9.00 an hour I was earning ($2.00 more than my previous newspaper job out of college) as it allowed me to afford my basic bills and, to my delight, make payments on a new (to me) car. By 2007, though, the shine had worn off of Meadville.

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My First Comic

A Retrospective of Lumpy

For every person who makes comic books, there was a point in their life when they decided to make the jump from a reader to a creator. For me, it started long ago in a simpler age known as the 1990s. More specifically, the year was 1998. Most remember that time for all the naughty things Bill Clinton was up to. Not me.

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