Thomas L. Floyd (Tecumseh, Nebraska) is a multimedia graphic artist with Nebraska Educational Telecommunications and the creator of Captain Spectre, a pulp style web comic. Tom earned degrees in drawing and painting, and art history from Texas Tech.
Growing up in rural West Texas in the 1950s, his strongest influences were his dad and the characters from comics, movies, novels, and television.Captain America, Tarzan, Doc Savage, and Roy Rogers were all weekly visitors to his world.
He states, “The lessons learned when we are young leave the strongest impression.Even the youngest viewer quickly learns about good guys and bad guys.Honor, duty, and integrity were common themes interwoven with action and adventure. Carrying forward the tradition of Alex Raymond, Jack Kirby and Milton Caniff, my art carries on the tradition of storytelling. My time in Vietnam was a meeting of principles and reality, a chance to prove my worth.My artwork explores the feelings and emotions that arose from those experiences.”His body of work, Principles and Reality, will be featured in the Osborne Gallery.
