Vance Bessey

Vance Bessey is a published author, illustrator and cartoonist as well as a patented inventor. He has studied art in college and moved on to illustrated storytelling at the Joe Kubert School for Cartoon and Narrative Arts. This combination of interests ultimately led him to write a young adult novel currently in publication, Orphans of the Storm, as well as his children's book, Awk the Awkward Penguin.

He has worked as an award winning graphic designer and teaches courses in; script writing, narrative art, plot development, deconstructing story lines, character development, graphic novel illustration and storytelling. He is a traveler who has been all over the U.S, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean as well as Europe. He now resides in his home state of Maine with his wife Sherri. He has four grown children.