Hey all, I'm Wilfredo S. "Fred" Duran. I'm an eighteen-year-old writer out of Southern Connecticut, USA, trying to get my foot in the door of the comics industry (and stay in the industry afterwards as well). I came in the top ten of the Global Comic Jam Script Jam a few years ago, and made it to the second round of the 2007 Small Press Idol, and in December of 2007 I had a ten-page sci-fi/fantasy anthology piece called Ruin, published by Dimestore Productions in Mysterious Visions Anthology #4 (Script- Wilfredo S. "Fred" Duran, Pencils- Sean Patella-Buckley, Inks- Tomm Gabbard, Colors and Letters- Adam Chowles), with a special dedication to Joe Pruitt. You can buy that online here. The anthology also includes a futuristic take on Jack London's classic, To Build a Fire, by Troy Boyle, Gary Francis, and Tomm Gabbard, Beyond Human by Hal Jones (better grab this up, it's the last production of Beyond Human before it gets its own title!), and a Possum at Large story by Chad Lambert.
Ruin will make another appearance in the upcoming Ronin Illustrated #4 from the awesome people at Ronin Studios, which should've been out in April 2008, but for some reason has been delayed. When I have info on that, I'll update this page.

In addition to that piece, I have a graphic novel in the works called Project E, which is currently on financial hiatus (Script- Wilfredo S. "Fred" Duran, Pencils- Giuseppe D'Elia, Inks and Colors- Chuck "THE HUN" Zsolnai, Letters- Richard Nelson). As with the Ronin situation, as soon as I have any more info on this, I'll update you. 'Cuz I know you're just dyin' to have the details :-).

I had hoped to have a webcomic go live on May 1st, up on DrunkDuck that parodies Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers by placing the story in a maximum-security Federal penitentiary. It would have been called Mighty Shankin' Prison Rangers! (yes, with the "!" at the end), but due to the craziness of senior year (college apps, testing, etc.), I never got around to fleshing it out. Hopefully this will be completed someday soon. Mighty Shankin' Prison Rangers! concept and creative development by Gabriel Ariori, Wilfredo S. "Fred" Duran, and Jason Jolles; scripting, pencils and letters (unless I learn to digitally ink without a Wacom) by Wilfredo S. "Fred" Duran; (someday) I'll be looking for a colorist, but that will come later, as I have a LOT on my plate already (starting college, plus a few other stories I'm working on).

If I can master the art of making tifs to the correct specifications in time, I'll have another showing in a Dimestore Productions book, this time in Mysterious Visions Anthology #13, the story being a four-page humorous story called EPIC HEROES! (I seem to have a thing for exclamation points), about a two-year-old Epic Hero named Manny and his battle with a giant chocolate cake. EPIC HEROES! written and lettered (yup, I've started failing at lettering as WELL as writing now) by Wilfredo S. "Fred" Duran, penciled, inked and grayed by C.A. Haidusek. I'll update this with ordering info when it's available.

I have a two-issue miniseries in the works called No Tomorrow, about a near-future apocalypse and how people react to the knowledge that they'll be dead soon, with a cruelly ironic ending. I'll be pitching that first to Image Shadowline (and hopefully ONLY to Image Shadowline). No Tomorrow written and lettered by Wilfredo S. "Fred" Duran, penciled and inked by German Curti, and colored by someone awesome, because through some amazing good fortune I've only ever worked with awesome people in my short comics career, and I'm hoping to keep the trend going.

Lastly, I have what's been classified as a "serialized graphic novel" in the early planning stages called The Phoenix Initiative, wherein an elite intelligence agent has to go on the run to expose a government conspiracy that is only the prelude to something far more sinister that can and will affect the entire world. I also plan to use other mediums in conjunction with the print comic (should it be made, of course), which will (hopefully) flesh out the experience and answer a few questions - while posing a few more. When I roughly outlined the plot of this to a friend of mine, he described it as "Paul Greenglass directing one of those 'on-the-run' movies, with a WHOLE LOT of extra material." Paul Greenglass did an amazing job on the final two Bourne movies, so if I can do half as well I'll be satisfied. All I have credit-wise at this point is that I'm writing and probably lettering it. It's too early in development to start looking for artists (I've got five pages of script that will probably change fifty times before I'm satisfied), but when and if I do, you'll be the first to know!

For my writing samples (comic, prose, and poetry), go here. If you like what you see, drop me a line and we'll talk.
Hoping to see some fellow Digital Webbing-ers and Penciljack-ers around here, and I'm looking forward to making some good connections here that will be mutually beneficial.

-Wilfredo S. "Fred" Duran