Regine Sawyer
Throughout her childhood, Sawyer expressed a passion for comics. She read them with her brother and her father would read the Sunday funnies to her. Her mother was a painter and encouraged her to read everything and anything. Sawyer used her creativity to make her own characters along with stories and her own original illustrations. She once convinced her mother to call the head of Marvel Comics to inquire if he wanted to buy any of her characters. Rather than pursuing a passion for comics, Sawyer attended college with the intention to "buckle down" and find a "real job." She received a bachelor's degree in technology and management which she used right after college when she received a job as a manager. In 2006, Sawyer was reminded of her passion for comics after meeting Rob Taylor, owner of the independent comic company Superhuman Works. She accepted a job at his company where she would edit his scripts, scout for talent, take submissions from artists, and set up convention appearances for him. It only took a year for her to realize that this was something she could do. She founded her own company, Lockett Down Productions, and published two comics, "The Rippers" and "Eating Vampires". In 2012, Ray Felix, the executive director for Bronx Heroes Comic Con asked Sawyer to host a panel on women in the industry where she met numerous female comic creators and was inspired to create a space specifically for women in the comics industry. That year she founded Women in Comic Collective. Sawyer started writing "The Rippers" when she was 17-years old. In the series, an intergalactic, government-regulated bounty hunter named Rhiannon O’Cair is accused of a crime that she doesn’t remember committing. Her newest project is "Eating Vampires", about a young girl named Evelyn who is the last of a race of Healers. Her vampire-eating guardian Rigel goes to great lengths in order to protect her from preternatural beings that want her dead. Lockett Down Productions official website
Women in Comics Collective official website
Career
She is the author of "The Rippers", "Eating Vampires" and "Ice Witch". She moderated the Women in Comics Panel at San Diego Comic Con in 2017. LDP Publications has published several comics: "The Rippers, Ice Witch," and "Eating Vampires" are all written and created by Sawyer. Sawyer started this organization in May 2012 after hosting a Women in Comics Panel at Bronx Heroes Comic Con.