Founding Fathers
It's a term that sounds a little more poetic than it should be, it sounds so deep and introspective, but it's not. It is a term used often when looking back on a great institution , when delving deep into a complex of massive influence . It's used whenever we look back on a thing and pay homage to the ones that brought it forward and gave it life. We like to call those people founding mothers and founding fathers . In this sense, with great anticipation I now speak about the Founding Fathers of Dominion, not so much in names but in deeds and goals and the desires they had to bring this institution to fruition.

It has been a good ten years since its conceptualization, in dingy living rooms and basement apartments. In the confines of appropriated office space on rainy Saturday afternoons and long long train rides through-in and throughout the outer boroughs of New York city. Hatched by scheming dreamers in the earlier nineties, just and naïve and innocent of business and politics as they were poor and hungry. Ten years since this bringing together of creators and designers, all of whom were visionaries with a need to see realization of the things they'd seen regularly in their heads, hit the light of day.

The art of being an artist is incredibly underappreciated in this day and age, and not to be confused with the over used and misappropriated word of artist in and of itself. It would seem that everyone who does anything with relative skill and efficiency can be regarded as an artist in this world. That alone will show the sheer misunderstanding of the true definition of the word throughout and all over. Artists are fanatics and I don't romanticize this in the least when I say it. They are separatists in nature. From the world, from friends and families and if their really good artists they are ultimately separate from themselves. Like everyone else, Artists know that money and fame and fortune are great things to have, but ultimately nothing compared to the realization of their ideas, the thing that are working on 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Artists don't fear confusion or dilemma. They're not concerned of matters of persecution or misinterpretation, they are not afraid of hatred and pain, they understand love and desire, they have to, because nothing but love or desire would make a man or a woman an artist.

The creation of commerce is young and childish. The thought of remunerable wealth, of great power and fortune, of fame and admiration from all over, They are all childish needs and notions, created long long after the inception of artistic integrity into the human psyche. The need to convey thoughts and ideas into tangible imagery was around since the days when men and women lived in caves and molded clay in their hair.

It is with that complete appreciation of this thing called art, that the founding fathers, the artists, created dominion.

Alex Glass came to heroic storytelling early, having read the Iliad and the Odyssey by the age of nine. After discovering a talent for drawing and a passion for writing, he chose (after getting a B.A. in English at the insistence of his family) to attend the Joe Kubert School for Cartoon Art and Animation in New Jersey . This turned into an internship at Valiant Comics, where Alex boxed shipped, marketed, wrote about, did production on, and eventually edited and wrote comics. He achieved Assistant Editor status there before the company folded. Since then he's written for the Art Asylum and has worked in Direct Market advertising. Over the last ten years, Alex has worked on and off with Dominion Publishing.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, as a Comic Book Artist /Graphic Designer, despite my age I have been in my professional for the past seventeen years, as a child I spent most of my time in art. I've always tried to be a creative person and I try to add a little beauty through everything I contact. My interest mainly stems from my little world such as art (illustration, Science Fiction) writing (little poetry, words of inspiration, more Science Fiction) computers (hard to get away from it) philosophy (general ideologies of life and the pursuit of happiness) and the biggest part of my life raising my son (Joshua). I've always wanted to be in the comic book industry but couldn't find a way to be happy in it. Confused, I know it's like wanting to play in the band but hated to play the song they always seem to be playing. I always thought every highly of the medium and see it great potential and first step I will not only announce my birth, but make a statement on the hopefully changing industry.