It all starts with a story. In the fall of 2007, Rebecca Kirkland was working as an independent producer of Film, TV, and Theatre in Hollywood, California. At the same time, in the mountains of Tennessee, Dwight was a full-time comic writer, college student, and single dad after having served 14 years in the Army. One day, as Rebecca was browsing the new titles at her local comic book shop, Meltdown Comics, she spotted the graphic novel, Dead Men Tell No Tales, by writer, Dwight L. MacPherson. A phone call to the publisher to inquire about property rights led to a phone call with the writer himself, and, fast forward two years to May of 2009, they were married. Rebecca became a wife and mother to 3 young boys on the same day. After their marriage, Dwight went on to win DC Comics' Zuda webcomic competition, adapt American McGee's Grimm for IDW, and write a couple of stories for Gene Simmons of KISS. But Dwight still had so many more stories to tell, and he wanted to tell them his way. So when he was approached by a professor at Texas Tech to use his young adult book, Kid Houdini and the Silver Dollar Misfits, in their curriculum, he knew that his stories had educational as well as entertainment value. He heard from parents that their reluctant readers loved his books and that got him thinking about how he could leave a larger footprint in the world.

“Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.” - Art Spiegelman

“Comics [the medium] is the marriage of art and literature.” - Dwight L. MacPherson

Comic Books are books. Graphic novels are books. Both can be used as teaching tools in the classroom.

In January of 2017 his idea of an indie publishing company became a reality with the launch of Hocus Pocus Comics . Dwight and Rebecca MacPherson are passionate about the value of comic books in the classroom and with Hocus Pocus Comics, they can equip educators to discover this rich and unique resource to add to their classroom curriculum and libraries. But, above all else, our goal is to create timeless tales that stir the imagination. Recipients of the 2019 Maker of Note Award from The Lakelander Magazine, their mission is to foster the next generation of writers and TV/Film visionaries. Winners of the 2021 Poe International Festival’s Saturday Visiter Award for Original Works, Hocus Pocus Comics feels the future of education is through informative content combining pictures and art. Graphic novels are the embodiment of this concept, and Hocus Pocus Comics is excited to be at the forefront of this new wave of education. Not ones to stop at comics, they have officially launched Gold Bug Studios: a production company whose only boundaries are that of imagination. It is the intersection of stories, art, and curiosities. It will propel Hocus Pocus Comics beyond the world of comic books and house their development of animation shorts, videogames, film, TV, and much, much more.