Steve Broome became an office manager/production artist for a San Diego art studio specializing in comic books and animation in 2000 after freelancing out of high school. As such, he did work for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Image Comics, BMG Music Co and others. He developed Flash animation skill early in the internet's original content era through projects for eruptor.com and other sites. After working in that capacity for 4 years, he left the world of art to pursue a degree in finance. With that newfound combination of business and art expertise, he founded Coal Minds. For Coal Minds, as lead artist and owner his responsibilities range from project pricing and communication, to web design --and writing for both the Coal Minds blog and fictional stories.

Influences include Bill Sienkiewicz, Mike Mignola, Enki Bilal, Frank Miller, Albrecht Durer, Syd Mead, Phil Hale, Akira Kurosawa, Guy Davis, Paul Pope, Sal Buscema, John Romita Jr., The Coen Brothers, PJ Harvey, MF Doom, Common, Pac, Gordon Liu, and pretty much everybody on Curb Your Enthusiasm.

E-mail Steve here with questions about rates and site issues.


Joe Jacla attended Cal Arts in Valencia CA. While there, he mainly studied print and digital media and publication design. He is currently continuing his education with a focus on animation and oversees development of our animated projects. At Coal Minds his main tasks include graphic design, most notably preliminary layouts for web site navigation, storyboards for animation, and layouts for print media.

Joe's artistic influences include Ethan Van Scriver, Olivia, J. Scott Campbell, and Arthur Adams, Sienkiewicz, Ashley Wood, Sam Keith, Steranko and Jae Lee. Favorite musicians include Jimi Hendrix, Green Day, Pharoahe Monch, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, MF Doom, MURS, Aesop Rock, Mr. Lif, Inspectah Deck, STP, Linkin Park, and Jay-Z.

E-mail joe here with any questions.

Kwasi Addae was born in Charleston IL and raised in American Canyon, CA. After high school he graduated from UCSC (Go Slugs).After getting lost in the Matrix for a while, Kwasi reappeared with proficiency in Aikido, a beard, and a desire to free the enslaved and lead the People.Currently furthering his intelligence gathering abilities by working from the inside of the Eastern establishment, via Med School. Fascinated by Luchador masks.

He has expertise in audio editing and mixing, as well as photography. His main function however is co-authoring and marketing of our mobile applications, including mWine.

E-mail Kwasi here for questions about our apps.