It seemed a straightforward job, risky but straightforward. Flying a helicopter full of gold out of South Vietnam before the advancing North Vietnamese Army got their hands on it. As an ex-Australian Air Force chopper pilot, Brendan Beckett thought the job would give him no real trouble. So how did he come to be tied to a post, kneedeep in rising water? Well, it's a long story.
Tom Hart is a critically acclaimed Eisner-nominated cartoonist and the Executive Director of The Sequential Artists Workshop (SAW) in Gainesville, Florida.
He is the creator of Daddy Lightning, and the Hutch Owen series of graphic novels and books.
The Collected Hutch Owen was nominated for best graphic novel in 2000. He won a Xeric Grant for self-publishing cartoonists.
He teaches sequential art at SAW and at the University of Florida and taught at NYC's School of Visual Arts for 10 years.