International debut for blind artist

Blind artist Richard Fairgray’s comic Blastosaurus will be published internationally by American Original and Top Cow Productions, it has been announced.

The 23-year-old artist/writer from New Zealand is legally blind, with only 3% vision in one eye. He sees the world as a series of two-dimensional images, like panels of a comic book or frames of a film.

American Original founder Jeff Katz discovered and was impressed by Fairgray’s self-published Blastosaurus, New Zealand’s only monthly comic.

"This kid is going to write for the big two. It's inevitable," Katz told Newsarama. "It's a name to remember."

Blastosaurus, which tells the tale of a crime-fighting, gun-toting dinosaur, is co-written by Fairgray’s friend Terry Jones.