Hi there, I'm Stef, a Toronto-based graphic designer and illustrator with over a decade of experience.

I'm the creator, writer, artist, web and graphic designer behind Sarah Zero: The Cinematic Art Novel.

As a kid, I loved cars... drawing and building models of them. But drawing gave way to computers by the time I graduated University with a B.S. Fine Arts Degree.

As an adult, I still love cars, but somewhere along the line, career kinda took over. While graphic design was my job, I'd still design and build my own custom model cars for fun.

My discovery of webcomics in 2002 finally got me back into drawing with the creation of SZ. And all at once, I lost interest in model cars as I found my voice, applying the same passion to SZ that I'd invested in building my career.

So while I treat SZ like a business, it's only a part-time hobby. I wanna make it my full-time job: several updates a week + books. With your support, you and I can get there.

Thanks to everyone...

UPDATE: FRI, AUG 15, 2008

SZ 0302-0303: My boss.

I love him, but he is in raep mode. Too busy. No time to work on SZ. No time to live. No chance to survive.

Make your time.

FRI, AUG 08, 2008

SZ 0300-0301: There are squillions of ways to do something WRONG, and oh so few ways to do something RIGHT.

Being a dick is wrong. But apologizing for being a dick is a step in the right direction.

But apologizing isn't easy! It's so hard to do! With all these buttons to mash, surely ONE of them will do the right thing at the right time?

No. Cuz we're egocentric, competitive mofos. We play to win. And we mistake compassion for weakness. We'd rather fight to the death than ever admit defeat, specially to strangers on the contranet.

So. We go through life fighting everyone who disagrees with us, wasting time trying to force and convince others to be interested in US.

But the world really doesn't revolve around US.

Maybe we should try to live our lives genuinely more interested in OTHERS.

Don't like NOT being the centre of everyone's attention?

Get over yourself and move on.

Oh. I just offended some of you.

I...

I'm...

...

I'm sorry.
Sarah Zero is a character I created in the early 90s: she's a fiesty redhead spitfire malcontent who lovingly unstranges estranged relationships.

Debuting on the contranet in March 2003, SZ was a weekly webcomic that I faithfully updated for 184 consecutive weeks until ultimately trashing it in September 2006. The story and art were weak, unoriginal and unsalvageable.

This website is the February 2007 SZ relaunch, featuring an all-new story, all-new art and an all-new website. My mandate for SZ has always been and will always be about making choices to become more than we are.

But Sarah herself doesn't always make the right choice, so in her quest to be happy and feel loved, she's gotta learn to drop the pretense, the anger, and realize that she's NOT better than everyone else.

While the SZ storyline is scripted and storyboarded well in advance, new page spreads are completed one at a time and appear online 28 seconds after they're completed.

Sarah Zero IS RATED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES: mature themes, dangerous ideas, graphic violence, coarse language and overt sexuality.

Viewer discretion yourself.