BiNGE's Editor -Page One

Who is "BiNGE's Editor"?

A few months ago, after reading the latest chapter of "BiNGE", I asked the creator, Eric Styles, if I could edit the text of his creation. He gladly turned the job over to me, and I've been doing the editing ever since then. It's an extremely pleasureful and interesting job, which I'm pleased to do for free.

I've known Eric for a number of years. I was his first "real paying job" when he decided to offer his services to the public. He has done all of the cartoon graphics at Player-Care.com, when his Internet identity was "Bedsoar Web Graphics - A Division of E7Styles Graphics". That was back in March of 2002, and I have been following Eric's life and artistic endeavours ever since he finished the project for my domain.

Earlier this year (2007), I was invited to another one of his art exhibits in Asbury Park, NJ. Advertised as "The Starving Artist", Eric was hanging out on a street bench, selling the hundreds of storyboard pages he had drawn for "BiNGE", his latest creation. I was totally taken in by the gist of the work, which, in essence, is all about 'addictions'. Realizing the potential and the quality of the work, I purchased all of his storyboard cartoon drawings. They represent the development of all of the characters he had created to date, and they were fascinating. The idea of creating a cartoon series that concerns addictions seemed (and still does seem) totally unique in the art world. While there have been any number of movies and books on the subject, I could not recall a single cartoon that dealt with the topic in such a humorous and provocative manner.