LUKE DAAB
Luke Daab is a designer and creative director whose career spans several concentrations of design. Additionally, Luke is also a prolific comic book artist, illustrator, cartoonist, and songwriter. Luke sells his original comic art prints at conventions across the country from C2E2 in Chicago to Dragon Con, San Diego Comic Con, Heroes Con, Baltimore Comic Con, and Grand Rapids Comic Con where Luke has been a panelist speaking on “The Business Side of Art.”
Luke is a published illustrator creating artwork for titles like The Mars Diaries, Rumble Zap Pow, and also The Story of Luke and Lunchy, featuring his own original characters and story.
SUPERHERO PROFILES
SILLIES
THE STORY OF LUKE AND LUNCHY
OTHER ARTWORK
I EMPATHIZE WITH MARTIN
I first doodled Martin on a piece of scrap office paper in 2003. He was a fluffy nondescript being inspired by the sketches of Jim Henson and the cartoon-like monsters I drew as a child. In the early days, Martin was depicted as being put-upon by others or dealing with instances of Murphy’s Law. As time progressed, Martin became the avatar of my own insecurities, frustrations, fears, and inner thoughts.
For many years, Martin lay dormant in my creative process. In 2018, I found myself in a season of emotional hardship and began drawing Martin comics as a means of processing my feelings. I began posting these panels on Instagram under the title, I Empathize With Martin and the handle (@iempathizewithmartin).
Through Martin, we see our fears, our hopes, our dreams, and often our disappointments. He has been described as a tree, and a leaf, and I accept both descriptions. When asked “What is Martin?” I like to answer “He is all of us.”