About Snack King Comics
Snack King Comics is a creator-owned comic publisher from Chicago founded by Dan Perlstein and Lance Orr in 2019.
We produce and publish high quality, fun-sized comic series akin to our own favorite cartoons, comics, and manga. Tell tales and create characters we don’t typically see in the medium. Craft issues with stories that entertain on their own apart from an ongoing arc. We also want to get these made somewhat timely…
So we created the comic snack! Along with a snappy name to publish under! Individual issues from Snack King Comics typically run a succinct 6-to-12 pages long and are printed as zines or in magazine style mini-collections, with full seasons of a series collected in trade paperback volumes. The result is easily bingeable episodic content, allowing readers to better know our characters after hanging out with them on so many cute adventures.
We are drawn to the silly, fun, adventurous, and sincere when it comes to stories we want to create and publish, regardless of genre. Snack King Comics is a place for emerging and underrepresented artists and writers to cut their teeth, to give readers a fun and engaging experience in snack-sized portions.
Our comics leave you satisfied, like the contentedness in your tummy after eating a peach parfait or personal-sized bag of dill pickle chips… but, like, for your feelings.
Man Boy
Created by: Dan Perlstein & Lance Orr
A wholesome slacker comedy about growing older, growing up, and staying a kid. Man Boy follows Man Boy, a broke twenty-something big kid, seasoned gamer, and snack foods enthusiast who embarks on escapades and hijinks throughout his neighborhood in Milk City. While Man Boy's endless quest for childhood joys reminds his more "grown up" friends and community how to live life as a kid again, he often finds himself at a crossroads between his fun and being a responsible adult. A Hey Arnold! for broke millennials, Man Boy’s a punk-comic-meets-kid’s-slice-of-life-manga of episodic adventures.
Wei Station Diner
Created by: Dan Perlstein & Matt Young
A sci-fi workplace comedy about restaurant workers onboard a space station who endure food service life, while cooking for a galaxy’s-worth of alien gastronomy. Follow inspiring chef and newest human employee, Ruthie, and jaded phozoan line cook, Cuss, along with the rest of the Wei Station Diner staff through the daily grind of surviving the lunch rush. A love letter to those in food service (front and back of house), Wei Station Diner is an ongoing story of figuring out your dreams, while making it to next week’s paycheck.
Tech Guardians
Created by: Dan Perlstein & Lance Orr
The Tech Guardians are a group of high schoolers chosen to harness the advanced power of the Tech Suits and stop the evil alien Gooze from conquering the city with horrific monsters. Becoming the alphas of their amoral teen world, however, takes precedence. The guardians ignore their day-saving responsibilities in lieu of using their new powers to pick up hotties and get trashed. To rule as the cool kids at school who use colorful suits and impractical weapons to kick everyone’s @$$. Though the guardians will soon discover their irresponsible mayhem begets its own reckoning…
Tech Guardians was originally created as an attempted 24-hour comic day challenge. This 24-page comic contains EXPLICIT CONTENT and should not be viewed by minors.
Snack King Creators
Dan Perlstein
Writer: Man Boy
Writer: Wei Station Diner
Writer: Tech Guardians
Dan grew up in Milwaukee, WI playing in punk bands and being the funny kid with the hair. He’s spent the past, let’s say 12+ years, writing and creating web series, short films, short stories, and, you might guess, comics. Outside of writing Dan plays drums and guitar, gardens, games, travels, hikes, drinks fancy tea, cooks for money, teaches kids for money, and grows many plant and animal friends to feel needed.
Lance Orr
Artist: Man Boy
Artist: Tech Guardians
Lance also grew up in Milwaukee, WI equally getting into mischief and playing video games. He’s always done art and officially started creating comics on his 12th birthday. Ever since he had his comic featured in his middle school yearbook, there have been people praying for his downfall which continues to this day. As a self taught artist, Lance takes visual inspiration by punk underground comix, some old Marvel mags like ROM and manga from the 70’s 80’s and 90’s.
Matt Young
Artist: Wei Station Diner
Colorist: Man Boy
Matt Lejeune is a Nashville based illustrator and comic book artist and graduate of The Kubert school for comic book and graphic arts. Matt is a lifelong fan of all things geek and nerd, from superheroes to sci-fi and fantasy and everything in between. He’s worked on various comic projects including a story from The NY Times praised Sci-Fi anthology ALL WE EVER WANTED (published by A Wave Blue World) and upcoming graphic novel GWAR: The Enormogantic Fail, featuring the metal band by the same name. Now, he works with the rest of the Snack King team to bring more Man Boy and a delicious new series to the Snack King menu!