Jesse Hamm's professional history includes illustrations, storyboards, and design work for textbooks, commercials, theatrical productions, and magazines, along with occasional teaching assignments, commissions for private collectors, and assistant work on numerous comic books.
Avocationally, Jesse has been secretly publishing his own comics since his teens -- although the "secretly" part wasn't on purpose. Despite weak distribution, critical response to his work has always been warm. In the words of one reviewer: "I don't know why I hadn't heard more about this guy before... funny, expertly done... this book is flawless."
Jesse's first credited mainstream comics work is GOOD AS LILY, an upcoming graphic novel written by Derek Kirk Kim. GOOD AS LILY was recently showcased online by New York Magazine as an example of "the best the exploding comics world has to offer." It will be published in August by Minx, a new imprint of DC Comics.
Jesse is a member of Portland's Periscope Studio. He is happily married, he is enthusiastically Christian, he maintains a blog, and he is currently writing two graphic novels for his own amusement.