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Brett Cantrell was born in Lubbock, TX from a highly successful architect and pilot father and a bright, athletic school teacher mother with two talented older brothers that formed a wonderful family.

A graduate of Monterey High School Brett earned his BFA degree in Design Communications from Texas Tech University. Since the fourth grade, Brett has created and drawn numerous comic book characters and developed stories related to them. In the ‘80’s, he created a super team called Enforcers, Inc. inspired by the Avengers and Justice Machine. During his college years, he acquired a part-time job in screen printing, design, and later management at Hub City Graphics. He later earned an art department staff position at Lubbock Avalanche Journal. After one year, Brett left the newspaper business and served in the U.S. Navy as a signalman on board the U.S.S. Nimitz during Desert Storm. In 1991, he created Navy Man, Landshark, M.I.K.E., the Executor, and the Stars of Freedom, based on the signalman crew.

After 4 years of service with an honorable discharge from the military, Brett enrolled in a one year program in desktop publishing at the Art Institute of Seattle. He graduated in 1994 and worked briefly in animation, screen printing, and delivery work. In 1996, Brett formed Apex Grafix, a one man comic book company on a limited budget. He published his first comic flip book, Executor/Femme Fatale #1. In 1997, #2 came out with limited success and no distribution. In 1998, he created, written, and drawn Madame X and Nicholei’s Star. The book was packaged together as Apex Golden Age and sold limited copies at conventions and through friends, family, Cartoonists North West members, and strangers who liked comics.

In 1999, Cantrell and a good business associate hired 3 beautiful models to dress as members of the Femme Fatale and Brett donned the cowl of the Executor. They all rented a van with books, artwork and models in tow and drove from Seattle Washington to Eugene, Oregon and were an instant smash success at the Eugene Comic-Con!

In 2000, Brett’s mother’s 50th high school reunion of the Coleman Blue Cats came and the creation of a one-time comic book, Apex Grafix Presents: Blue-Cat #1 was published. It was a success at the reunion and was sold on mail order. 2003, the Succubus of Liberty was published in extreme limited run. In 2011, the 70th Anniversary of Timely’s (Marvel) USA Comics #1 and the unpublished USA Defender was produced. Early 2012 came the year of All-American Force and the birth of the American.

After this book’s publication, Brett will produce various unpublished stories and create new and exciting work for readers to enjoy.

If you are sick, tired, and angry about the lawlessness of our government, then this book is for you!

If you’re not, then enjoy this book anyway.

Hello! Welcome to my first, widespread distribution of my published work: The American vs. Amabo.

I had never been a political kind of man, until our nation has been gradually falling apart before our eyes. Since early 2012, the fire in me was set in motion and I needed to create a patriotic hero who truly represents the Constitution, American hard workers, law abiding citizens, and people who care about America.

This hero does not represent any race. He symbolizes the red, white, and blue. This American defender is needed to stand up to an outlaw president and a crooked government out for political greed and whose henchmen would step on innocent Americans, whom would get in their way. He is neither Democrat, Republican, nor Libertarian and does not belong to any political party. This patriotic mystery man upholds the American Constitution, defends the oppressed, and protects the defenseless.

Ladies and gentlemen I welcome you…the American!

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United States, Franklin, Virginia 
Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Headline: Brett Cantrell Brings Back the Classic Comics in the Relaunch of His Compelling Book, “The American vs Amabo”

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