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Bill Lutz Credit: Ian Curry<\/p>\nWhen Bill Lutz isn\u2019t answering questions about printer ink or ringing people up at the register at the Staples store in South Burlington, he\u2019s drawing on a sketch pad he keeps handy \u2014 something that has caught the attention of many a customer.<\/p>\n
Lutz trained at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and while he works at Staples to help pay the bills, his talent is undeniable. Even his boss is a client.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe loves my artwork,\u201d Lutz said. \u201cI turned his niece into a Jedi Knight, and he got a movie poster out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bill Lutz Credit: Ian Curry<\/p>\n
Lutz, who specializes in illustration and cartooning, has been drawing since he was 6 years old and counts the classic superhero comics he grew up with in the 1980s as his biggest influences.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI realized I could do this, and I finally could tell stories by drawing,\u201d he said. \u201cThe most exciting part about it was, it was my world. I was creating stuff. It was one thing no one could take away.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lutz will draw anything and said he\u2019s always open to commissions. He gave Seven Days a glimpse of his portfolio, which included illustrations of pet dogs, Martian explorers and original superheroes. He hopes his current project will blow his clients away.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a couple that wants themselves turned into Viking superheroes in the Gothic age,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re going to display it at their wedding.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lutz is an artist with ambition. He\u2019s spent years writing and illustrating his own graphic novel, Frontiersmen: Pathways, which he hopes to publish next year. It\u2019s a genre-bending sci-fi saga spanning 500 pages that features dozens of original heroes and villains.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery character I\u2019ve created, somebody posed for me, so that\u2019s based on a real person,\u201d Lutz said. \u201cThe ironic thing about it is everybody wants to be a bad guy,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The original print version of this article was headlined \u201cOn Full Display\u201d<\/p>\n