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.

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 charity comic anthology organised by The GraveRavers.
Editor and Artist Co-ordinator, 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.

Ravel Jam 2024 "Best Student Prize" winner, with my team, for the visual novel game In A Stitch (as Lead Writer &
Graphic Designer).
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.