Dru Hiram’s creative practice is very much in step with the four stages of his life thus far. He was a storyteller from a very young age. By age five or six his storytelling was already beyond the standard A > B > C pacing, where there is action, reaction, and then the aftermath. Now there were subplots and duel storylines. He drew comic books starring a superhero frog and another about a genius mouse. Once he got his hands on a camcorder he was spending all his time making ridiculous movies with GI Joe or superhero action figures. In high school he and his group of classmates in a communications class created full television shows with a script, special effects, music, wardrobe, and acting. In his senior year of high school (1997) he was writing scripts, co-directing and co-producing short films, a news show, music videos, as well as interning at a radio station and having a regular bit as “Intern Andy” where he’d read a self-written original limerick on air. A year after graduation he was accepted into Hunter College in New York. It was here that Dru found his voice and calling. He was a Writer. And he wrote professionally for the next 20+ years finishing novels and screenplays, novellas and short stories, essays, epic haikus, whatever could be written about he wrote about: love and death, fathers and sons, sons and mothers, robbery, murder, abuse and addiction, happiness and tragedy, abortion and parenthood. But he was getting nowhere professionally. He spent some time away from the pen. He became a certified and licensed Massage Therapist and a Level III Reiki master. Then he got the idea to do a graphic novel version of the book he published in ‘08 called Lithiumbuzz. Furthermore he decided that along with writing it, he’d illustrate as well, and that is the creative practice Dru Hiram is working these days. Pessimistic optimism with subdued joy and cautious hope.