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Matt McClure is an artist, writer and educator. After working as a journalist for several years, McClure was hired as The Publisher and Adviser to The Communicator, the weekly college newspaper of IPFW. Since being brought on, the publication has garnered several regional and national awards in content and design.

Works
In 2004 he launched lullabyart, an online gallery featuring a series of original ink drawings and short fiction dealing with religion and growing up. After dismantling the site in 2006, Matt shifted his focus to writing and illustrating original "picture novels," and short graphic novels. Between 2008 and 2010, he illustrated the covers of the Fort Wayne literary zine Transient. His published work in small press includes The Death of Kiera and Davey and the adventures preceding their demise (illustrator), Little Uglies, and Mope volume one.

Mope: (2009-2011) The comic blog Mope narrated the mishaps of an unnamed human named  Mope. Also alias "angst lice" and Sad Robot. (2011-present), Sad Robot became the primary character in the series; an unnamed human, the angst lice that act as the voice of the reader, and sad robot. Unlike the other characters, his stories often end with the punch line "sad robot, you ruin everything.” Occasionally, McClure broke from the traditional sequential form to offer parodies of pop culture and brief autobiographic reminiscences. These include parodies of The Giving Tree, Peanuts as well as the short stories “Blue”, “The Fall”, and “Interlude 1” and “Interlude 2”.

The Sketchbook Project : (2010-2011) McClure collaborated on The Sketchbook Project. Selection were published online including work from his personal sketchbooks (robotic fiction and landscape)