Sean is a writer, editor, and photographer based out of Portland and New York City. He served as the photography, live music, and comic book editor at Paste Magazine for four years. He’s also served in other editorial and marketing in-house roles at Image Comics and Z2 Comics. The latter role included marketing collaborations with musicians and celebrities including Major Lazer, Jason Derulo, NCT, and Emily Hampshire (among others), as well as directly managing and editing projects alongside Broken Social Scene and Angels & Airwaves. He’s contributed journalism and photography to copious publications including The Atlantic, Playboy, NPR, and Stereogum. In 2017, he wrote Art of Over the Garden Wall, an exploration of Patrick McHale's Emmy award-winning Cartoon Network miniseries. The book is sold out of all printings to date. Sean was also a product photographer for Uber for three years.
Sean is writing his debut novel, The Lost Causes of North Broadway, slated for…some time in the future.
Sean is the founder of CoyDog Collective, a boutique creative agency that specializes in publicity, communications, design, and media. He’s currently the Senior Marketing Director of the new creator-owned comic publisher, DSTLRY, and its multi-publisher digital comics spinoff, Neon Ichiban. He enjoys studio and fashion photography.
Sean adores the following in no particular order: books that weigh more than five pounds, Werckmeister Harmonies, Swiss design, Harvard Case Studies, ampersands, The Muppets, '70s leather jackets, Gotham typeface, Gattaca, autumn, Tycho, Markus Zusak, Double Fine Productions, boxing, the way old paper smells, and empathy.
