Octopolis

Creative Direction • Project Management • Crowdfunding Strategy • Marketing • Digital Prepress • Fulfillment

Octopolis is a sci-fi fantasy comic series about a future where humans are extinct and octopuses have inherited the Earth.

In 2024 I raised over $32k on Kickstarter to self-publish and print Book One of the series, Octopolis: Holdfast. I write and illustrate Octopolis. I also executed the digital prepress and directed the production of the print books from start to finish. This project reflects my approach to systems thinking, long-term world-building, and end-to-end ownership.

I currently maintain a small publishing business, Cephalotype, to publish and promote Octopolis and related work. Explore the latest creations at the online store here.

Read Octopolis: Holdfast

I'm speaking at the @aquariumofthebay today, so I made this print for the occasion! Join me today, Saturday, March 14 at 12:30PM in the Farallon Room for “How to Draw an Octopus”. 🐙 ✏️ #marinelife #sciart #aquarium #octopus #workshop
I’ll be debuting this memorial print in honor of Claude the albino alligator @casnightlife at the @calacademy tonight! I’ll be there along with @xjosuecruz and @maloneydoodles Come join us!
Who says San Francisco doesn't have any Night Life? Next week I'll be tabling at the @calacademy @casnightlife Level Up party! There's going to be arcade games, a cosplay contest, and a marketplace. Come find me along with fellow local cartoonists @x
It’s the year of the Fire Horse. Or in my case, the Fire Seahorse! #lunarnewyear2026 This illustration is loosely based on Jayakar’s seahorse, which has insanely cool spikes all over its body. I have a tradition of drawing a lunar new
The Lovers💙💙💙🐙 Happy Valentines Day! In this piece, two octopuses fall into each others arms in the bright light of a new day and a new world. As they draw near one another, their skin colors and patterns interweave with one another. The sun wat
Excited to share that I have started as a dive volunteer at the @calacademy of Sciences! It's been an awesome opportunity to learn new skills, interact with unique marine life, and meet all the wonderful people who make the Academy such a great insti
The Quidnunc looms imperiously over two deferential suppliants. The 64 arms of the eight pontifices interweave, forming a nonverbal network as they dispense their collective dogma upon their domain. Patterns ripple across this ring of interlocked su
Close-up of stony coral #sciart #coral #marinelife
Announcement: I made a board book! If you've got a small friend who's into marine animals but still learning numbers and colors, they'll love The Octopus Dinner Party! This book was made as a gift for my niece, but in order to get it printed, I had
The Emperor stands erect on a terraced throne of staghorn coral. He wears a bejeweled crown ring around his spiked mantle, and wields a turitella shell spear. A large nautilus shell covers his third right arm, and harp snail envelops his fore-arm. Sw
Octopolis: Holdfast was released about a year ago, so to commemorate that I want to share with you one of the coolest book reviews I got last year. Two readers, KJ and Jill, got a review from a Giant Pacific Octopus ! KJ and Jill are both dry-suit s
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