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Dave Elliott Asks For Help For Garrie Gastonny After Heart Attack

Dave Elliott writes,

I've been fortunate enough to have been working with Garrie Gastonny for ten years now.

We met first when the Singaporean based art studio Imaginary Friends Studio, founded by Stanley Artgerm Lau, Kai Lim and Kendrick Lim approached us at San Diego Comicon. We'd just announced Radical Publishing/Studios/Productions at that time.

The first three projects I launched with were all produced by the studio. Garrie Gastonny was the artist on Caliber. He was a joy to work with. His art style is comics told cinematically. Everything seems real.

Garrie always does his research on everything he draws so everything feels like it is in actual place rather than just thrown together. It's the little things sometimes that matter.

After Garrie drew Caliber he went on to do SuperGod with Warren Ellis and I was lucky enough to snag him for another project from the same creator as Caliber, The Vault, which was published by Image. It was only three issues but Garrie created a world and environment that would have made Ridley Scott jealous.

Garrie's not what I think of as a 'flashy' artist. I sometimes think of him as the Indonesian Curt Swan or Dave Gibbons. Everything he draws is wonderful and his storytelling is so natural, but he never tries to steal the show. Garrie tells the story so well that reading something he drew seems effortless.

Well now Garrie is stealing the show, but for all the wrong reasons. On December 30th, Garrie had a massive heart attack.

The good news is that he will be out of ICU tomorrow. But like most comic artists working in this industry, he doesn't have healthcare or insurance. He also has a family to support.

We're trying to get him enough money so the family can get by until he can get back to the drawing board. I wish the industry was healthy enough where this wasn't a problem. That this was an exception not the norm.

Others are putting together a sale of his artwork and prints to raise money as well. If you buy Atomeka books from Meltdown Comics 100% of the money will go to Garrie. they currently have A1 volume 1, Monster Massacre volumes 1 & 2, Weirding Willows, Carpe Diem, Eddy Current volumes 1-3 and Garrie and my own Odyssey book.

If you can help in any way I know he and his family would be incredibly thankful. Just sharing this with others on social media would be smashing!

Help us get this epic storyteller back to work.

Many thanks!!

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