The Heroes of Audio Land began as an idea in 1988. I was in high school in Anacortes and I began playing around with ideas for a super hero team that would be a bit off the norm. Audio Man was born a year later. I had graduated and returned to run the sound booth for the school's model United Nation. The rules were that only ambassadors and pages could be on the gym floor, which we used as the floor of the United Nations. The teaching staff took on the ambassador roles from the fictional Lower Slobovia. We in the sound booth became the People's Democratic Republican Kingdom of Audio Land.

My friend Brian Pierce (ambassador to the Byellorussian SSR) and I began trading notes through pages which began with him innocently calling me Audio Man. I drew a quick sketch of the hero and wrote back "I'm not Audio Man! This is!" He drew a villain and I drew Audio Man defeating him. Silliness ensued.

On Wednesday night of the United Nations it is opened for the general public to view from the balcony. I wanted to do something special by dressing a Ken doll up in an Audio Man costume. Unfortunately it was impossible to find a Ken doll on short notice. So I made a costume for my brown teddy bear, Possibles, instead. Thus was born Audio Bear. There is a reason he is drawn more like a teddy bear than a grizzly!

I spent the next day hastily drawing Issue 1 of Heroes of Audio Land which I photocopied and sold at cost. I sold 25 of them which was pretty awesome. These hasty drawings are #1-17 in the online series.

In 2006 I ran into Brian again online and low and behold I still had the original Heroes of Audio Land book and the one that was done for the UN the following year. I scanned them and put them up as a side page to my regular comic strip, Action Figure Cinema. I got positive feedback and started drawing new strips. Before long Action Figure Cinema was done and Heroes of Audio Land was on its way to where it is now.