Meet Dan Reed
Dan Reed is an Artist who has always loved the comic book medium, and wanted to become a professional comic artist even as a very young boy. At 13, while attending the small comic shows around in Miami back then, he found out that C.C.Beck lived in the general area. He began to visit Mr. Beck who went on to hire him as an assistant during summer months.
 
• At 15 he entered the art contest at Miami Con One, where his worked was judged first place by none other that Jack Kirby himself.
• At 19 he began working for a local company that had connections with South American comics and began penciling and inking “El Hombre Mosca”… for the whopping sum of $5 dollars a page… talk about your sweat shops…
• He finally broke into comics in 1981 by talking Charlton Comics to print his work for free… and he thought that five bucks a page was bad…
• He went on to work for DC doing House of Mystery pin-ups and then Marvel doing Indiana Jones, The Hulk, Alpha Flight, The Punisher, Captain America and others…
• He went to college for a couple of years studying fine art while getting full scholarship for doing a newspaper strip called “SubAtomica”.
• He then went to live in Paris, France and started working for Marvel UK doing the Transformers.
• After a few years of this he returned to America and once again starting working for Marvel and DC.
• Wanting complete creative control he went on to self publish “New World Order” 1-8 and “Retro-Dead” #1
• He continued painting and started to do small animation shorts.
• Dan is currently publishing a Web Comic “The Dimensioneer”.
• He did a short story for the independent book the Charlton Arrow featuring his character  “The Problem!”
• He then went on to work with InDellable’s POP comics doing “TeenAge Space Cadets” featuring Tom Corbett.
• And has been self publishing “The Dimensioneer”.

Why I Drew The ERB Illustrations I did these a few years ago in 2008 after re-reading several of Edgar Rice Burroughs books. His adventures were the first books that I ever read and they have always held a special place for me. I couldn’t get enough of them growing up and also fell in love with all the wonderful covers! I used to get beat up copies of the original hard covers at book stores and comic conventions and loved the illustrations… as I had always wanted to be an artist, I had thought to myself that someday when I was good enough I would illustrate a bunch of them! Which I have, and just recently colored them…. I hope I did them the justice that they deserve and that I managed to capture some of the magic I felt when I first read these wonderful tales of magic.