Andrew the Fisher of Men (Parts 1 & 2)

I was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1950. Writing short stories has been one of my pastime passions since the late 50’s when I wrote biblical dramas for backyard Easter concerts. In the mid 60’s, I started writing/drawing mystery comic book and amusing comic strips that I shared with friends. After 25 years of favoring mystery stories, I completed a series of 13 action packed undercover agent comic books, featuring Jamaican characters Lex Payne and Duke Elliot...(the names were developed from my mid-1960 cowboy Dandy bubblegum picture collection). One of the comic books, Operation Software, was published in the STAR, the Jamaica evening newspaper in 1989/90. After Y2K, the comic books were revised as action packed short stories, conforming to the original stories. I have written several other mystery short stories, one of which was adapted by ’The Creative Production and Training Center’, Jamaica, into a drama production called ’FIX’ about the dangers of cocaine. FIX was first aired on Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation (JBC) TV in 1988 during Drug Awareness Week. None of earlier the short stories has been published or ever been submitted for publication. My ’action packed’ writing style was influenced by comic book authors, such as, Chester Gould, Stan Lee, Lee Falk, writers of the Commando comic books, et al. I have had no official training as an artist or a writer apart from basic high school and college English and tips from book and periodicals like Writer’s Digest. Andrew the Fisher of Men (1 2) is the first spiritual book I have written, this was a real challenge. I’m an Electronics Technician by occupation.