⁂ Meet the Artist


  • Names: Alex, Lutz
  • Hatchday: 8/23/1993
  • Brain stuff: Biromantic Aegosexual/ Autistic
  • Gender: Butch/masc Androgyne
  • Beliefs: Liberal Atheist
  • Exists in: Illinois, USA. Sometimes in orbit.
  • Likes: Being silly, birds, glow in the dark objects, hiking, morbid and gross things, neon colors against black, outer space, poop jokes, taking care of my friends, and the night
  • Dislikes: Anti-intellectualism, censorship, chewing noises, right wing politics, screaming children, strong smells, and whinging

How did I get here?

I was born in 1993. I wasted too much time resting in the womb when I could have bought a house for $2.17.

I grew up in a Rust Belt town that’s infamous for smelling like burnt Cheez-Its. I spent my childhood searching for an escape and I found it in the world of stories and art. It has always been my refuge from pain, an uncharted universe for me to explore, a wellspring of strangeness, and a tool to examine uncomfortable realities.

Favourite Things

Name Description
Animals Big Headed Mole Rats, Bully breed dogs, Frogfish, Japanese Emperor Caterpillars, Jumping Spiders, Koi Fish, Northern Cardinala, Opabinias, Red Milkweed Beetles, Red Winged Blackbirds, Tufted Titmice, Weevils, White breasted nuthatches.
Food Beef Bibimbap, Beef Lo Mein, Beef Pho, Chicken Tikka Masala, Coke Zero, Cheeseburgers, Chicago-style pizza, Chicken and Dumplings, Chicken Noodle Soup, Delmonico Steak, Fried Chicken, Grilled cheese sandwiches with Tomato Soup, Ice water, Jjajangmyeon, Lemon cake, Mint chocolate ice-cream, Mocktail Pina Coladas, Naan, Pasta in Alfredo sauce, Peppermint ice-cream, Pepperoni Pizza, Saag Paneer, Sesame Chicken with broccoli, Southern Barbecue, Thai Curry, Unsweetened ice tea, White Radish Kimchi.
Interests 420, Astronomy, birds, criminology, cults, extreme cinema, film, general oddities, history, horror, liminal spaces, natural disasters, psychological and body horror, psychology, psychedelia, surrealism, tattoos, the human body, so-bad-it’s good media, vintage ephemera.
Movies 120 Days of Sodom, A Clockwork Orange, Cats Don’t Dance, Coraline, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Human Centipede 2, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Meet the Feebles, Misery, Robocop (1987), Soylent Green, Suspiria (1977), Tetsuo the Iron Man, The Brave Little Toaster, The Fly (1986), The Greasy Strangler, The Haunting (1963), The Iron Giant, The Killing of America, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), The Triplets of Belleville, Threads, Videodrome, Yellow Submarine.
Musicians Aorta, Artillery, Blotted Science, Bruce Haack, CA Quintet, Casiopea, Coroner, Death, Dead or Alive, Destruction, Egg, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Frenzy, Gong, Hawkwind, Jean-Jacques Perrey, King Diamond, Mort Garson, Ozric Tentacles, Over Kill, Pink Floyd, Russ Garcia Orchestra, Spiral Architect, Software, Tangerine Dream, Transit Express, Van der Graaf Generator, Vaperror, Voivod, Watchtower, Yes, Zenit.
Music Genres Berlin school, chiptunes, disco, electro/80s synth, early electronic, jazz fusion, lounge music, old school EDM, progressive/technical metal, prog rock, psychedelic/space rock, psytrance, surf rock, 80s thrash metal.
Video Games Anatomy, Crash Bandicoot Warped, Earthbound, Growing My Grandpa, Pajama Sam in No Need to Hide when it’s Dark Outside, Rayman 3, Spyro the Dragon, Super Castlevania IV, Super Metroid, Yobi’s Basic Spelling Tricks, Yume Nikki.
Visual Artists Bill Watterson, Edward Gorey, Fleischer brothers, Ghastly Graham Ingles, Joan Miro, Jhonen Vasquez, Junji Ito, Michel “Away” Langevin, Peter Max, Phillipe Druillet, Reid Miles, Roger Dean, Rory Hayes, Stan Sakai, Stephen Gammell, Victor Moscoso, Wassily Kandinsky.


Frequently Asked Questions


What program do you use?

I draw exclusively with Procreate on a 13 inch iPad Pro. I like to call myself an iPad baby. I used to be a fully traditional artist and worked with mixed media. My most recent traditional media was done with India ink and markers, but I have also worked with oil paints on canvas, charcoal, acrylics, watercolor, and ink wash. I did not pick up on digital art until I was 26 because drawing with a standard tablet felt unnatural. Drawing on the iPad feels almost exactly like drawing on paper, and Procreate is capable of reproducing the textures of traditional tools. I liked it so much I stopped drawing with physical media altogether because Procreate gave me everything I wanted.


What is your favorite subject matter?

I enjoy creating dark, surreal stories about nerdy, strange people wandering into bizarre situations. Nearly everything I’ve written involves a socially awkward, nerdy, but mundane character falling down a rabbit hole of insanity where the laws of reality can break. I like to send an Everyman into a waking nightmare so that the reader can connect with the feeling of disorientation and horror. Anything can happen in the realm of thought. Dreams leak into the waking world. The mind becomes a physical place that can be explored, exposed one’s darkest secrets. I also like to find humor in the weird little mundane parts of life. Crooked pictures, sarcastic advertisements, smiley faces on dangerous objects, comically-timed accidents, and awkward social interactions can all be found here. I also focus on the beauty of quiet moments, often lingering on environment shots, unspoken interactions, and small details to immerse the reader in the story.


Lutz' Lists

Here's a big old blob of random lists that couldn't go anywhere else. This page is still pretty new, and I'm still adding stuff to it as of writing.

Things I find funny

  1. Airbrush skulls
  2. Animal movements set to breakcore
  3. Bad grammar
  4. Cartoon characters falling off cliffs
  5. Comical mispellings
  6. Drawing silly faces on things
  7. Extremely fat birds
  8. Explaining the joke
  9. Giant creatures with tiny faces
  10. Googly eyes
  11. Morbid puns
  12. Overexplaining the joke
  13. Poor craftsmanship
  14. Random explosions
  15. Silly noises
  16. Snaggleteeth
  17. Sudden mentions of deadly diseases
  18. That noise an american woodcock makes
  19. Pearl alphabetizing everything we code
Words that describe myself

  1. Aegosexual
  2. Alien
  3. Androgynous
  4. Animal lover
  5. Antiquarian
  6. Autistic
  7. Audiophile
  8. Bibliophile
  9. Biromantic
  10. Cinephile
  11. Curious
  12. Eccentric
  13. Hippie
  14. Metalhead
  15. Nonbinary
  16. Nonconforming
  17. Pitbull dadmom
  18. Silly
  19. Stoner
Movies to watch while high

  1. Batman and Robin
  2. Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
  3. Coraline
  4. Dead Alive
  5. Fantastic Planet
  6. Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
  7. Rock and Rule
  8. Space Jam
  9. The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Cut
  10. Yellow Submarine
Movies to NEVER watch while high

  1. Any mondo movies
  2. Audition
  3. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
  4. Ichi the Killer
  5. Martyrs
  6. Meet the Feebles
  7. Salo, or 120 Days of Sodom
  8. Street Fight
  9. Tetsuo the Iron Man
  10. The Killing of America
  11. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
  12. Threads
  13. Videodrome
  14. PS...I have watched all of these on edibles. I love getting stoned and watching fucked up movies, but I can't recommend it to anyone else.
My Creature Comforts

  1. Being in my bed under some cool lights
  2. Being with my husband
  3. Coffee table art-books
  4. Cuddling my dog
  5. Curating photos of silly things
  6. Getting high and watching movies
  7. Learning new bird songs
  8. Listening to the frogs at the pond
  9. Listening to some 80s' death metal
  10. My friends
  11. Reading my books
  12. Smoking a joint under a full moon
  13. Smoking a joint while I watch the rain
  14. Stargazing
  15. Staring at my lava lamps
  16. The glow-in-the-dark stars on my ceiling
  17. Those stressballs full of gel
  18. This giant tangle I own
  19. Tomato soup and grilled cheeses
Textures I like

  1. Anything with bumps
  2. Chrysanthemum blooms
  3. Crinkled paper
  4. Cotton linen
  5. Fleece
  6. Glass
  7. Marble
  8. Mechanical keyboards
  9. Moss
  10. My dog’s ears
  11. Polished wood
  12. Raw beef
  13. Running water
  14. Silicon
  15. Smooth stones
  16. Stress toy foam
  17. Wax
  18. Weighted blankets
  19. Wooden bridges
Smells I like

  1. Cedar wood
  2. Cheap laundry detergent
  3. Cinnamon
  4. Coffee, even if I don’t drink it
  5. Creeks
  6. Deep dish pizza
  7. Fresh office supplies
  8. Leather
  9. Mom and Pop candy stores
  10. My dog
  11. Pastries
  12. Patchouli
  13. Petrichor
  14. Pine and Pumpkin candles
  15. Skunky weed
  16. The greasiest burger you can think of
  17. The forest floor
  18. The first cold night with a furnace
  19. Vanilla
Things I stop for

  1. Abandoned buildings
  2. Algae formations
  3. Any birds
  4. Flowers
  5. Frogs
  6. Little bugs
  7. Public art
Favorite birds

  1. American goldfinch
  2. Barred owl
  3. Downy woodpecker
  4. Eastern towhee
  5. Golden crowned kinglet
  6. Gray catbird
  7. House wren
  8. Indigo bunting
  9. Mourning dove
  10. Northern cardinal
  11. Northern flicker
  12. Red bellied woodpecker
  13. Red headed woodpecker
  14. Red winged blackbird
  15. Rose breasted grosbeak
  16. Tufted titmouse
  17. White breasted nuthatch
  18. Willow ptarmigan
  19. Yellow warbler
Favorite flavors

  1. Banana nut
  2. BBQ
  3. Caramel
  4. Cherry
  5. Cinnamon
  6. Cola
  7. Cotton candy
  8. Green apple
  9. Honey butter
  10. Key lime
  11. Lemon
  12. Nacho cheese
  13. Peach
  14. Peppermint
  15. Pumpkin
  16. Root beer
  17. Soy sauce
  18. Taco
  19. Vanilla
Places in my Dreams

  1. A dead mall with a lot of closed stores
  2. A sketchy downtown street lined with brick buildings from the 1800s, which is filled with scammers
  3. An abandoned school
  4. An old farmhouse in the middle of a cornfield, where I have to hide from a tornado
  5. My grandma’s house but it’s not actually her house
  6. The hallways of my high school
  7. Worn-out small town that’s a bunch of buildings clustered around one street in the middle of a field
When I feel most like myself

  1. I am drawing a page of my comic and it looks exactly the way it did in my head
  2. I am designing a living space for myself or my characters
  3. I am in a cabin and I’m quietly looking out into the woods
  4. I am listening to music and the atmosphere matches a scene in my fictional universe
  5. I am reading a book and it’s pulling me into the world the author has created
  6. I have several days off work
  7. It’s night time
  8. When I am watching birds