Broken Saints

Burgess got the idea for this project after leaving his previous job as a producer for a top video game company in the late 90’s. “I kind of got tired of cranking out the same old stuff,” he says. “I wanted to start telling stories that reminded me of the great anime that I had seen and the incredible comic books that I was a huge fan of.” After coming back from a trip to the South Pacific, Burgess wanted to tell a story that could reconcile his tech-heavy Western-living and his growing spiritual side.

Burgess teamed up with West and Kirby, as well as score composer Tobias Tinker, realizing that a Flash web-comic would be the best way to showcase his story. “I thought, ‘We could make a graphic novel with a sense of movement, with a beautiful soundscape, and we wouldn’t have to be under a studio’s thumb.’”