www.mental-distortions.com - Ron Chiu's digital portfolio site

Sequential Artwork, or comic books, have always been somewhat of a minor obsession of mine. When in Highschool, I dreamt of one day being a comic artist, but to break through, you seriously needed to seriously be gifted in illustration and the ability to tell a story with your artwork. Since I’m not a professional comic artist at this stage in my life, I guess it’s fair to say that things didn’t quite work out the way I’d hoped for in my highschool days. But with the internet over the past few years, it has allowed for even amateur comic artists, such as myself, our 15 minutes of fame, or if not that, at least an opportunity to get our artwork and stories out for millions of people in the world to see.

I have dabbled in small press publishing for a bit, and later on, jumped on the web comics bandwagon at various times over the past few years, and have always found it to be a very fun and fulfilling experience, but have always found myself falling short when it comes to writing, so I tend to partner myself with a writer who has a story they want to tell in visual form. My first partnership was with Philip Zeplin from Denmark, and we worked jointly on Evolution in 2023, but it became an incomplete project due to hectic schedules for the both of us, and my increasing role as colourist for another web comic, Chisuji.

After a long break, I finally feel that I can work at a comfortable pace again, and have partnered up with a new writer on a new upcoming project. More on that once we finalize the direction we want to go with the story and when we get some finished artwork done.

Below is my gallery of work. I have organized it by year and comic title. Simply click on a tab below to choose which gallery to view.