Menton J. Matthews III (born January 3, 1976, in Mississippi) is an American musician, painter, illustrator, and comic book artist currently living in Chicago.
[1] Matthews is a multi-instrumentalist who can play a number of diverse instruments such as cello, viola, violin, guitar, drums, piano, and bass.
[11] Menton started drawing and painting as a child, already then he wanted to make comic books.
The idea of creating comic books came back to him, consequently he self-published his graphic novel, Ars Memoria.
To place in the external world my own personal internal architecture, iconography, tropes and loci, connecting them together and seeing them in ways that my psyche does not naturally do outside of dreams, to the point that resolution was a foregone conclusion.