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Terry Crews Wants to Draw Comics – and Plenty of People Will Let Him

Published Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:00:34 -0600

Terry Crews is an American actor, artist, and former American football player in the National Football League (NFL) for the Los Angeles Rams, San Diego Chargers, and Washington Redskins, as well as in the World League of American Football with Rhein Fire.

Crews played Julius Rock on the UPN/CW sitcom Everybody Hates Chris and Nick Kingston-Persons in the TBS sitcom Are We There Yet?. He has also hosted the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and starred in the BET reality series The Family Crews. He has appeared in films such as White Chicks, Idiocracy, and the Expendables series, and currently plays NYPD Sergeant Terry Jeffords in the Fox sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

He was also part of the Silence Breakers, the group of people named as TIME Person of the Year for 2017.

Oh, and he wants to draw comic books. How do we know? Because he was asked. After doing the cover for Ad Age…

Thank you @adage for letting me illustrate the cover of this amazing issue! THE 2017 CREATIVITY 50! I love being an ARTIST https://t.co/VLOSZ8RkK1

— terry crews (@terrycrews) December 18, 2017

He was asked:

@terrycrews if you've been asked this before sir, my apologies, but have you ever considered comics? Like variant covers or runs as an artist for a book and such? Seeing your take on some hero's and villains would be Outsatnding! Love the dedication in every facet sir, thank you.

— Hocus Focus (@UFO_GUY) December 19, 2017

And he replied:

I would LOVE to illustrate a comic book! https://t.co/J9n019OB8Y

— terry crews (@terrycrews) December 19, 2017

So… how long would it take for folk to notice? Not long.

In all seriousness: I run the largest comics publisher in Chicago; we produce Eisner-nominated, award-winning books. We'd love to have you.

— Iron Spike (@Iron_Spike) December 19, 2017

sir I would just like to point out that my comic ABBOTT about a woman journalist investigating the supernatural in 1970s Detroit is launching next month and we ARE doing variant covers…who knows??? pic.twitter.com/XkkRQ1CIOk

— Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) December 19, 2017

Wait. Stop. You can draw comics? I can get past my overwhelming jealousy of how amazing you are to say I'd write it for free. Met you & your son at Pasadena Jazz Fest many years ago, been a fan ever since.

— The Comic-Con Don says "Happy Kwanzaa!" (@hannibaltabu) December 20, 2017

I can make this happen.

— Spring-lero? (@DennisCalero) December 19, 2017

We're working on Volume 2 of @SpencerAndLocke — it's about a hard-boiled cop and his imaginary talking panther. Think what if Calvin and Hobbes grew up in Sin City! We'd love to have you on a variant cover if you'd like! pic.twitter.com/lgyGeoKS26

— David Pepose (@Peposed) December 20, 2017

Hey, @terrycrews — I'm the Chief Creative Officer of a comic book publisher in San Diego. Saw your Mt. Rushmore piece, you'd be great on a comic cover. If you wanna DM me and talk, let's make that happen. https://t.co/ibIdQkcuZo

— Chris Ryall (@chris_ryall) December 19, 2017

And that, my friends, is how to break into comics. Become a major footballer and actor first…

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