BIO

Mars Heyward is a Black, queer comic artist, character designer, and car liker, currently working on the ongoing webcomic series Ride or Die. Physically living in Portland, Oregon, but mentally also living in Portland, Oregon.

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ACHIEVEMENTS 

• Launched a successful Kickstarter in 2023 to fund Long Exposure Volume 2

• Won Ignatz Award for Outstanding Online Comic for "Ride or Die" 2022

• Started webcomic "Ride or Die" July 2021

• Completed webcomic "Long Exposure" in 2020 with over 24 million views

• Launched a successful Kickstarter in 2021 to fund Long Exposure Volume 1

• Managed to do anything at all in 2020

• Character layout artist for Nickelodeon's Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in 2019

• Two illustrations featured in the Gallery Nucleus Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse art show in 2019

• Short comic featured in Ignatz-nominated anthology Alloy: Electrum in 2018

• Completed storyboards and character design work for clients such as Cartoon Network, Kellogg's, and James Patterson

• Making comics since 2009, and professionally since 2016

• Beat all five roommates at Mario Kart

• Dropped out of art school to pursue a life of crime