Charley Parker is a freelance web site designer, illustrator and cartoonist living in the Philadelphia area. He started Argon Zark! with the intention of simply having fun doing a comic story the way he wanted, with no art directors, editors, or publishers telling him what he could or couldn't do.

He's been intentionally self-indulgent in allowing himself to write a story that would let him draw whatever he likes (robots, dinosaurs, attractive women, bizarre landscapes), and even rewritten pages to accommodate his whims to play with a new piece of graphic software. The strip is full of references to stray bits of stuff that he finds interesting or fun.

Argon Zark! has been a labor of love, although sales of the hard copy, help defray the cost of maintaining the site and allow him to devote more of his time to it.

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