Steam Crow is a Phoenix, Arizona company that creates quirky, imaginative characters and strange stories for people with a monster imagination.

Founded by Daniel and Dawna Davis in 2005 after attending the San Diego Comic-Con, Steam Crow has been traveling the West Coast comic convention circuit hawking their monster-based characters and products like a goblin circus.

To date, they have illustrated and published 3 books under the Steam Crow Press brand: Caught Creatures, KlawBerry: Good Girl, Bad World, and After Halloween.

In mid-2008 Daniel began work on the Steam Crow Monster Commute, a free webcomic about the endless daily commute of a robot and a beast, stuck on a monster highway. Inspiration for the project comes from the Davis' 3+ hour daily commute in the blazing Arizona sun, along with Daniel's real psychosis surrounding driving (fiery death, getting lost, etc.).

Daniel Davis

Mr. Davis has been abducted by monsters on 318 occasions throughout his life, beginning in the pine forests of the Inland Pacific Northwest. While he has managed to escape every instance physically unscathed, he has been deeply touched by these encounters with odd creatures "from the other side." Everything that he creates reflects these traumatic experiences; Mr. Davis cannot stop drawing monsters or telling their tales.

An amateur Monsterologist, Mr. Davis is also the proprietor of Steam Crow, an organization dedicated to creating stories, artwork and products with a monster imagination. To date, Mr. Davis has illustrated, written and published 4 books about mytical beasties, all crafted in his vintage style. His most recent release, Monster Commute Book 1, is a compilation of comics from his MonsterCommute.com webcomic.

Mr. Davis is also passionate about the possibilities that the internet creates for entrepreneurial artists. He is also the founder of Tiny Army, a Phoenix-based illustration group dedicated to bringing together local illustrators to share strategies for success.

It has been said that he is rather fond of armored hats.

Daniel shares his exact birthday (day and year) and birth location with comedian Patton Oswalt. It's kinda weird, huh?

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Dawna Davis

The whole concept of the Steam Crow company came from Dawna, who is an arts educator of high passion. She creates all sorts of handmade plushies and monsters bags, which can sometimes be found in the Steam Crow stores. Dawna is a photographer, seamstress, and ceramicist, and she also enjoys drawing, cartooning, watching movies, and reading.

Together, Daniel and Dawna make a great monster-wrangling team. You should meet them.

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