“My earliest art was comics. My first independent projects were comics. Comics and storytelling are the backbone of what I do.”

-Reid Faylor, earnestly

seamless commercial storyboards

“Office Wizard” online commercial spot by Post Everything Productions, storyboards by Reid Faylor

The challenge here was designing storyboards for a setting that was not yet booked, with no reference photos. I kept the setting itself minimal, and focused on camera angles, the expressions of the actors, and the mood of each scene. The final product had to be tailored around the tighter angles required by the shooting location, but the storyboards communicated the shooting needs to the crew, and conveyed the speed of performance and level of drama required to fit the story into thirty seconds for the actors.

We Move Mountains With Spoons - Treatment

Written by Brandon “Robo” Robles, illustrated by Reid Faylor

In this series, a wildlands firefighter creates a living memoir of his difficult adolescence, incarceration, and redemption through the passion and community he found in wildlands firefighting. But the conditions of the work destroy his lungs, and the purpose he found is jeopardized by disability.

We Move Mountains With Spoons - golden

Written by Brandon “Robo” Robles, illustrated by Reid Faylor

I’ve now completed over eight installments for Robo. As we’ve gone on, it’s been a delight to watch the series change and develop, finding new ways to utilize color and animation to bring the stories to life. Robo constructs the scenes for me in writing, laying out the specific truck models, filler items for the backgrounds, and real locations as settings. The best is his photography and videos from on the job—stunning landscapes in the daytime, nights of glowing orange ripping trees into ash.

Excerpts from An Opportunity to Serve

Short film by Post Everything Productions, storyboards by Reid Faylor

The short film is a strange hypnotic horror film about a stranger inserting himself into a charlatan’s life, and by a psychedelic ritual, “repairing” the broken man. In this scene, the victim discovers an ominous tiding left behind by the mysterious stranger—a tattered old photo of a boy. The photo coming to life and dripping goo foreshadows the following sequence.

Highlights parody for the Unofficial Paul Ryan Magazine

Editors-in-Chief James Folta and Andrew Lipstein. Spread concept, art, and writing by Reid Faylor

In the Unofficial Paul Ryan Magazine, every article was a satire of a different magazine. I pitched doing a Highlights for Children satire, and the editors and creators James Folta and Andrew Lipstein loved it. I was given full freedom to besmirch the former Speaker of the House’s name in a beautifully printed limited-run satirical magazine.