Lenore: Hodge Podge

Born April 29, 1972, Roman Dirge is an autodidactic, quadruple Eisner nominated artist/writer, magician, and accomplished raconteur.

Told by his high school art teachers that he would never become an artist due to his ‘crude drawing style’, Roman promptly quit art and became a full-time magician, dazzling countless kids’ parties with his astonishing skills of prestidigitation. However, the urge to create comics was too great, and in 1992, he created Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl for the San Diego alternative magazine Xenophobe.

Roman went on to draw 13 issues of Lenore before taking his titular character to Titan Comics in 2009, where he still continues to bring his gloriously silly and gothically bizarre worlds to an adoring audience of devoted fans. Roman is much in demand in the animation industry, where he’s worked on a variety of TV shows and commercials as a writer and artist, including the HBO show Animals and Nickelodeon’s Invader Zim. In 2015, Roman wrote and developed a pilot show for the animated series Princess Battle Boy for Nickelodeon.

He has also written and illustrated three books:

• The Cat With a Really Big Head, a collection of his short stories.
• Something at the Window is Scratching, a book of macabre poetry.
• I Can Count to Ten, the world’s first how-to-count book for adults (2024).

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