Working in pen and ink most often, painting and creating crafts around smaller works. Happiest when the composition has something spiritual involved, with components being abstracted or augmented from reality. Heavily influenced by eastern art; such as thanka art of Hindu/Buddhist leaders/deities and even anime.
The official website of Empire’s Comics Vault, owned and operated by Ben C. Schwartz and located in Sacramento, CA.
I’m excited to have Sacramento’s own Eric Nguyen in the shop to sign his new book White Savior. Learn all about it in this post.
I'm excited to share the completion of many years of work. Also, I'd like you to know, that I''ve started a new email newsletter to talk about all my creative work. If you're a fan or just curious, please check it out on Substack.
I had a chitchat with Ben and asked about his top scifi movies. Without hesitation he spat them out and in no particular order… (Interview by Ronnie)
Back in January, we welcomed to the shop local Girl Scouts cadettes to learn about comics creation. The Heroic Girls Foundation along with professional comic book artist Justin Greenwood hosted the event.
We had such a great time hanging out in the store with Sacramento artist Eric Nguyen. Here’s a photo collage of the event and a link to the replay of our online interview.