About Us

In 2000, childhood friends, Bruce, Jamie, and Cameron; while working on the “Truth” anti-smoking campaign created a customized comic book targeting Asian American teenagers who smoke. The project proved to be very successful with more than a million issues being printed and distributed. Their collective experience on this project inspired them to express the action adventure stories they had grown up with from the Shahnameh, into this art form.

The Shahnameh’s main hero warrior, Rostam (Rustam) seemed perfectly suited to the American Comic Book form. In keeping with the Comic Book tradition of blending rich folklore from the melting pot of world cultures, into the American tradition, Bruce, Jamie and Cameron launched the world’s first adaptation of Shahnameh (Shaname) stories into this genre.

After a few years of research, translation and adaptation, Bruce, put together our 1st series of stories, suited for the creation of the books, in which the tradition of Ferdowsi’s technique of using the double entendre, one in which the main story overlays, a deeper message of wisdom or advice, could be accomplished. This project utilizes the graphic novel medium to introduce an important Iranian/Persian literary work to two very important audiences: English language comic book readers of the world and the youth of Iranians in Diaspora.

"Tehran 1973"

"San Francisco 2003"