Hero Stew chills with 2Der Mooby. Why don't you? Hear it. Feel it. Dig it!
"2Der Mooby...Beats for the movie in your skull."
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Welcome to Hero Stew. Featuring the work of ONE artist and the OFFICIAL home of MASS COMIC DIGEST! Including the adventures of Gil Tyberious Tyler as...MASS! A small press hero since 1984.
The BRIEF Origin of MASS!!
During a time traveling experiment conducted by his friend Roger Lance, Gil Tyberious Tyler is accidentally turned into a super powered gargoyle! He is now cursed with inhuman strength and rock hard skin. While researching Gil's transformation, Roger discovers Gil's ability to change his body's weight. Without changing his size or strength. Allowing him to glide on the wind like he is flying, then come crashing down like a human cannon ball! Roger labeled their research in his computer files as... MASS.
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Power Fool
Gil Tyberious Tyler, the hero known as MASS, goes up against a villian that really SUCKS! Goliath! The little GIANT among men!
Adventures In Lactose Gil Tyberious Tyler, the hero known to the world as MASS, battles his greatest enemy....hunger?!
Retail Galactico Lost in space. Gil Tyberious Tyler as Mass needs help getting back to Earth. Through his new job in the outer space super store. Retail Galactico 1961. He must now earn money to hire a ship and pilot. These are his work place adventures.
MASS-ive Slice Of Life Mundane moments in the life of Gil Tyberious Tyler. The super hero known to the world as MASS!
MASS-ive Fanboy A humorous look at pop culture through the eyes of Gil Tyberious Tyler. The hero known as MASS!
Expired Stew My teen-aged art work from the eighties featuring heroes from the Hero Stew Universe. Back when Hero Stew was Hero Comics.
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Who Or WHAT Is Hero Stew? The NOT So Brief HERO STEW Bio...
First off. Hero Stew is the name of my site. But some have adopted Hero Stew as my alias.
I am a cartoonist, traditional animator, and slave to the MAN to make ends meet. I started doing stop motion animation back in the eighties. I did a lot of Robot Chicken type stuff. Using Star Wars, Super Powers, and whatever action figures I had lying around.
I first started using a regular old video camera. The animation was choppy, but for a young kid, gratifying. I then started using a Super 8 film camera. Better animation. But having to wait for film developing time, the cost, and only about 3 minutes of animation per reel...ugh! So I went back to video. For instant gratification.
I started taking animation classes when I was nine and did so all through high school. My formal film training started under Dave Master at Rowland Animation. There I was able to compete as a 2D (hand drawn) animator and won many awards from the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences student competitions.
Through our annual open house, that was such a large event it was advertised on radio stations like KIIS FM and KROQ, I was able to meet a lot of 'industry insiders'. On one occasion I was able to have personal time with two of Disney's Nine Old Men, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. Being young and dumb, I didn't understand the significance of that until I was much older. I didn't even get a picture with them.
Today I do mostly drawn animation, but now find myself continuing to do a lot of stop motion animation as an adult.
When I was 14, I started drawing my own comic books staring Gil Tyberious Tyler as MASS. Who I still publish today in Mass Comic Digest and here on HeroStew.com.
Around 1985 I started selling my first comics in a store called The Complete Paperbacker in La Puente California. The store was owned by a then paralyzed old school comic artist from the 40's.
He would sit in his wheelchair next to the counter and watch customers come in. But he could barely speak. So his daughter or wife actually ran things. As a child I vaguely remember this same man talking comics with my dad when we would go in. He used to have his own How To Draw Cartoons shows on PBS. And had instructional books and videos.
Again, this is a situation where I didn't realize the significance until I was an adult. It was he who told me, through his daughter, that I needed to vary my panel work. Use circles, squares, and some times no panel at all. That advice still influences me today.
When I was a teen, after mowing lawns for some cash, I made my way from the local market where I had just purchased a favorite in my art arsenal. BIC mechanical pencils. A ten pack. From this ten pack I would wage war on boredom. While on my trek home, I saw a personage just above me. Shining as bright as the sun at noon day.
From the personage I heard a voice. It spoke to me and made my insides shake.
"Take thee this pencil my son. With it create art that ROCKS and through said art, bring peace through out the universe."
I reached and took the pencil in my hand. I felt it's power shake in my hand as the hammer in the mighty hand of Thor. It gleamed of gold and bade me that I should draw.
And then, because it was shiny, a crow flew by and took it from my hand and I never saw it again.
So until I can find the enchanted pencil again, so that I may create art that ROCKS and through said art, bring peace through out the universe, check out my stuff. Thanks for coming.
