Dark Ocean Studios is an independent comic book company founded by Jody Parker. It features her two main titles, Earthsons and The Dark Labyrinth. Both books are dark tales taking place in worlds with little hope. Both are vastly different and feature two contrasting art styles.

Jody met Daniel Logan, the author of Earthsons, through National Press Comics and selected him to illustrate her book about a post-apocolyptic world with few survivors. Daniel finished three issues and though the comic was accepted for publication, due to company changes it was never published. Years later, Daniel and Jody decided to join together and work on the title Earthsons again. With a fresh revamped story and years of art practice behind him, Daniel quickly and skillfully began redrawing issue#1 of Earthsons and is already on issue#2 as of this writing.

Jody also found a very talented colorist for the book, Jennifer Striener, who truly brings the story to life. She colors with amazing speed, is ever patient with trying different styles until the right one is found, and a pleasure to work with. She will also be coloring future issues of The Dark Labyrinth.

The Dark Labyrinth was envisioned during the downtime of Earthsons. Jody was propositioned to create a story to fill in a gap that was missing due to an employees absence. Struck by inspiration, she began creating a world and a story which grew larger and larger. Soon she drew maps and designs of cities. Uniforms for military officers, ranks, schooling, even imagining what food might be eaten, how it was distributed, what plants and materials existed. Who the people were, what her characters believed. Hoping to create a world that seemed real even if no one else would possibly ever know the small details of it.

She browsed through over 30 artists before deciding on Geoff Porter. His style and skill matched the world she wanted to create. She shared her pages and pages of writing and even made him his own binder with a paper collaged cover of computer art and drawings of stick figures with explanatory arrows. Geoff waded through Jody's explanations and began sketching characters, creating uniforms and faces and began to tell the story. The first issue is in its final stage of completion.

None of this could be done without a great editor Jody wasn't completely happy with some of the edited scripts she had received and was desperate to find someone to fix the things she knew were wrong but couldn't find the words to fix herself. Luckily she met Joanne Hall, a fantasy writer from Bristol, England. She volunteered to help. When the first copy came back, Jody knew she had found the perfect editor. She saw exactly the things that needed to be fixed and made gentle suggestions for improvement. Ready to beg for her to sign on as her editor there was no need since Joanne was happy to help.

Now that everything was getting in gear the company needed a website. Jody hired Jessica Bolin, a very talented website designer and founder of Anomaly Media. She captured the feel of the company and it's stories and did a fantastic job designing the site.

That is the story of Dark Ocean Studios and how we all ended up here today!