HI I'M CAN RICHARDS

And this is my portfolio!

I'm a Cape Town-based artist with a passion for telling stories through visuals! By day I study 3D animation, and by night I work as an illustrator and comic artist.
My clients have included Cloudscape Comics and Arledge Comics.

Currently, I'm publishing and developing various webcomics and short anthology comics, as well as taking illustration commissions, and am open for work as an illustrator, sequential artist, or colourist.

I am also a member of the GraveRavers art collective, a group of 5 artists from around the world who run zine projects.

Projects and Publications

Awards and Publicity

Into The Midnight City created by
Can Richards and edited by Ian Missible, published digitally as a webcomic. Artist and Writer, 2020-present

Tales From The Zones, a comic anthology organised by The GraveRavers.
Assistant editor, 2021.

Dr E-Viv's Latest Plan! published digitally on Gumroad. Artist and writer, 2020

Macadamia Rose for the Life Finds A Way anthology, published by Cloudscape Comics. Artist and writer, 2019.

Hair-Brained, published digitally by GenderTerror.com. Artist and writer, 2018.

Gene Day Awards 2020 nomination for the Life Finds A Way anthology (includes Can Richards' Macadamia Rose)

UNICEF Climate Comic Contest 2017 shortlisted finalist for the comic pitch, Sunburst.

Exhibitor at the Zone Rats Art Show in both 2017 and 2018, as publicised in
Alt Press and Rock Sound.

Cape Town Art Eisteddfod 2016 Gold Medalist for a large-scale pitch piece.