A negative is proof something was real.

Most people hear the word Negative and think it means something bad. It never meant that to me. A negative is a memory. Proof that something was real.

I didn’t grow up around beautiful things. My notebooks were plain. The clothes I wore were just clothes. Characters and other worlds lived on screens, not in my hands. Somewhere along the way most of us grow up faster than we were supposed to. We learn to be practical. Serious. Less imaginative.

So I built what my younger self never had.

I got into art school at fifteen. My father wouldn’t send me, because art wasn’t a real career. I left school in that argument. I had wanted two things for as long as I could remember: to make characters at the level of Pixar and Disney, and to own a clothing brand. I couldn’t choose, so Negative became both.

Here is how it works. I draw a character. Then I put him on a tee. The tee is not merchandise for a story that already exists. The tee comes first, and the story catches up to it. Charlie is the first. He is an angel with no power on a planet where everyone has one, and a crystal chose him anyway. His book, Charlie’s Rising, comes in 2027. There are fourteen characters behind him, and each one gets drawn, then gets a tee, in the order I draw them.

Fashion and art. I took both and made one thing.

Every tee is terry cotton, oversized, S to 2XL. The character goes large on the back with their name. Their colour goes on the seams, because it should be with them wherever they go. Fifty of each. When a colour sells out it doesn’t come back in that colour. Everything is inside the price. Nothing appears at checkout.

It is one person. I draw, I write, I choose the cotton, I pack the boxes, I answer the messages. The comic gets made in the open, storyboards first, from page zero, because I would rather you watch it get made than have it appear.

Negative is for people like me, and maybe like you. The ones who had to grow up early and never fully let go of their sense of wonder. Imagination isn’t childish. Softness isn’t weakness. The kid you once were is still worth listening to. If you’ve ever felt a little out of place, or like you see the world differently, you’ll probably feel at home here. I’m really glad you found your way to Negative.