is creating COMIC ART/ ILLUSTRATIONS
ETERNAL THANKS!
You will receive my ETERNAL THANKS for helping me pursue my own personal DREAMSTATE and sharing this adventure with you.
DREAMSTATE LEVEL 1
You will receive my ETERNAL THANKS for helping me pursue my own personal DREAMSTATE and allowing me to share this adventure with you.
Access to my PATRON-ONLY FEED including, but not limited to, updates, sketches and WIP.
FIRST ACCESS: You will receive access to development sketches, previews, process, and videos of me discussing upcoming highlights or thoughts. *Please note: These will be available to you for 24 hours before all patrons can have access to them.
5 POSTCARD PRINTS (4" x 6") featuring panel art from issue of current DREAMSTATE issue. (images are selected by me. *NO REQUESTS)
About DIS PATER
My name is Ben Chmura and welcome to DIS PATER. I've always loved three things: comic books, fashion, and pop/street-culture. I wanted to create an opportunity for me to explore all of these worlds and merge them into a project that would test my limits as an illustrator/designer.
I grew up on comic books and sci-fi in the 80s/90s which inspired me to attend SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) to study comic book illustration. I later shifted into fashion design because I loved the idea of designing costumes. My appreciation for comic book illustration, fashion and pop/street-culture are what fuel the content of the DIS PATER concepts.
The first launch for the DIS PATER realm is DREAMSTATE. A comic storyline I wrote when I was 15 years old. DREAMSTATE was a creative outlet for me when I was realizing at an early age that I was gay. I look forward to sharing the inner workings of a world that was created 22 years ago from the imagination of a teenager struggling with idea that the world would not accept him. DREAMSTATE offered me a world of characters that allowed me to be myself and I wanted to share that world with others. It is a realm with a gay protagonist which was something rare and unheard of in the industry and now has become integrated and celebrated. I think there is still a lot of room to explore these types of characters in comics.
I want to thank you for joining me on this journey. I can't wait to interact with you and build an exclusive community to share DREAMSTATE. Let's discuss it! I look forward to talking with you all more in the future!
To learn more about future projects follow @dispater_nyc or www.dispater.nyc.
Thanks again for joining the DREAMSTATE!
When I reach my first goal of $250 I will send out a signed/ hand-numbered, limited edition 8" x 10" full-color print of the main character, The Dream to 5 patrons (selected at random).
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