Born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, Arvin Loudermilk hand wrote his first novel—a high school superhero fantasy based embarrassingly, and almost entirely, on himself—at the age of seventeen. As a young man he had moderate illustration skills, leading friends and family to believe he was good at drawing, when unfortunately, he was barely decent, at best. Despite this, his desire to create comic books was strong, yet without an able illustration hand, his potential was limited.
In May of 1989, Arvin met Mike Iverson, an illustrator and designer looking for part-time
work in a new and still unknown town. By the end of their first hour of conversation, Mike and Arvin had joined forces on New Guard, a Soviet era superhero comic. Sadly, the late lamented New Guard never found a publisher, despite numerous submission efforts. A second comic book concept, Vigil,
a crime fiction epic featuring a gun-wielding vampire vigilante, had better success, finding publication with Innovation in 1992. Twenty-one more issues of Vigil followed, from two more
publishers, ending its run at over a thousand pages.
A myriad of follow-up projects were juggled and considered, but Collective, a science fiction soap
opera, won the day. Collective’s first storyline saw four print issues, before Arvin and Mike, desperate
to see this specific work in color, shifted to the new and unstable ground of web publishing. The series' initial run was completed online, totally in at more than three hundred and fifty pages. Additional Collective stories were on the drawing table, but tragedy and the real world intervened.
In the years that followed, Arvin became more and more convinced that Collective and Vigil
would be natural fits in the world of prose. The development process to shift to this new creative platform was long and frustrating, but the end result, an assortment of novels and novellas,
began its long-term publishing schedule with the 2012 release of In a Flash.
Comic Book
Innovation Publications
March 1992
Comic Book
Innovation Publications
April 1992
Comic Book
Innovation Publications
September 1992
Comic Book
Innovation Publications
July 1993
Comic Book
Millennium Publications
May 1994
Comic Collection
Millennium Publications
August 1994
Comic Collection
Millennium Publications
October 1994
Comic Book
Millennium Publications
November 1994
Comic Book
Millennium Publications
December 1994
Comic Anthology
Millennium Publications
March 1995
Comic Book
Millennium Publications
July 1995
Comic Book
Millennium Publications
August 1995
Comic Anthology
Millennium Publications
May 1996
Comic Book
Millennium Publications
August 1996
Comic Book
Millennium Publications
October 1996
Comic Book
Duality Press
July 1997
Comic Book
Duality Press
August 1997
Comic Book
Duality Press
November 1997
Comic Book
Duality Press
February 1998
Comic Book
Duality Press
May 1998
Comic Book
Duality Press
August 1998
Comic Collection
Duality Press
August 1998
Comic Book
Duality Press
November 1998
Comic Book
Duality Press
February 1999
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Duality Press
May 1999
Comic Book
Duality Press
July 1999
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Duality Press
July 1999
Comic Book
Duality Press
November 1999
Comic Book
Duality Press
February 2000
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Duality Press
May 2000
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Duality Press
October 2000
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Duality Press
November 2000
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Duality Press
December 2000
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Duality Press
January 2001
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Duality Press
February 2001
Comic Book
Duality Press
March 2001
Comic Book
Duality Press
April 2001
Comic Book
Duality Press
May 2001
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Duality Press
July 2001
Comic Book
Duality Press
August 2001
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Duality Press
September 2001
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Duality Press
October 2001
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Duality Press
November 2001
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Duality Press
December 2001
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Duality Press
January 2002
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Duality Press
February 2002
Comic Book
Duality Press
April 2002
Comic Book
Duality Press
May 2002
Comic Collection
Duality Press
June 2002
Novel
The Concentrium
February 2012
Sourcebook
The Concentrium
February 2012
Novel
The Concentrium
February 2013
Novella
The Concentrium
October 2013
Novella
The Concentrium
October 2013
Novella
The Concentrium
April 2014
Novella
The Concentrium
October 2014
Novella
The Concentrium
March 2015
Novella
The Concentrium
June 2015
Novella
The Concentrium
September 2015
Novella
The Concentrium
November 2015