
I’m J, a designer and storyteller based in the San Francisco Bay Area. By day, I work as a professional Designer with a vast array of experience working at companies like Google, Disney+, Electronic Arts, and Blizzard Entertainment. By night (and weekends), I create The Barrier Scroll, a passion project I’ve carried with me for many years now.

I don’t get paid to make this comic—it’s a labor of love created in the margins of my full-time job and real life. But storytelling, especially of the fantasy genre, has always been important to me. I’m drawn to sweeping worlds, broken heroes, impossible choices, and slow burn romantic perfection. The Barrier Scroll is all of that and more, and I’m incredibly grateful to finally be sharing it with you.
If you enjoy what I’m building, you can support this project by visiting the shop (where I make most of the products I sell by hand, I love crafting!), leaving a comment, or getting exclusive access on Patreon:


