Jon Parrish was born in Hammond, Indiana and attended Hammond High School. During his high school years, he discovered and honed his craft writing comic scripts on the Digital Webbing message boards. After graduating from Franklin College, he worked as a Teacher’s Aide in his hometown before moving to Japan to work as an Assistance Language Teacher (and pay off his student loans). While time in Japan was a once in a lifetime experience, it came with many setbacks such as his city being hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami as well as losing his father and grandfather. Through it all, he continued working on his stories.
In 2012, he managed to complete his first comic book series, Secrets & Shadows. He followed that up in 2014 with his second series, Clusterf@#k which would go on to be published digitally by Alterna Comics and see print in 2016. He also worked on a collection of short comics called Career Criminals and two one-shots, Someday and Con-Troll. He has also done freelance work writing scripts for the comic Salty Roos and a penning short story for the horror anthology Tales from the Cryptic Closet 2 from Guerrilla Publishing.
His third series, Mega Centurions: Mega No More, saw him working with Secrets & Shadows team members Dexter Wee, Kote Carvajal, and Steven Forbes. It is currently published by Scout Comics and was released in 2022. He also had a short story in the fourth edition of the Tales from the Cryptic Closet anthology.
While things have slowed down, he is still writing and hoping to put out new projects each year.
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