About

Max Bare and Melissa Sue Stanley are a husband and wife team living in Chicago.

Together they create unique illustrative projects that breathe life into brand experience.

Collaborations include design, branding, illustration, murals, and comics. Most often their work is some strange and wonderful blend of all of these things.

Max is an illustrator, designer, comic creator, and exhibiting artist. Currently he's working on the comic series, "Scally-Ho!", created by children's book author Alex Willan. Max's work can be found at maxbareart.com.

Melissa is an artist, illustrator, and comic creator. In addition to painted and printed work, she also sculpts and stitches together a world of creatures called the Woolbeasts. Melissa's work can be found at melissasuestanley.com and woolbeast.com.