This is about the ILLUSTRATOR slash.

As an illustrator his works have appeared in various advertisements, most notably for The Round House Theater. Mr. Dimes has designed logos, letterheads, business cards and greeting cards. His works have been proudly displayed across the chests of various peoples via T-shirt designs, and he has actually sold his renderings from the walls of restaurants, coffee houses and bookstores throughout Washington, more specifically: Borders Books and Music (in Arlington and DC), Soho Tea & Coffee, and The Tom Tom Club in Adams Morgan.

He has also illustrated several original graphic novels and a book of fiction that features his illustrations.

Most notably:

In the year 2000, he created his own publishing imprint, Bhatari Asid Ltd., where he wrote and illustrated a book of fiction entitled Tales of Home, an 88-page humor/fantasy about a Chaplinesque black gentleman named Home as he makes a rather perilous, and hilarious journey to self-discovery while beset by Pretties, and visited by sagely Speculuminaries. Several years later, in 2007 his novel The Rites of Pretending Tribe would feature the character Home as its leading hero/protagonist.

In 2001 he published two more works: Le Tarot De J’heralt and Fowler Still.

Le Tarot De J’heralt is a 98 page illustrated story in rhyming verse of a gay magician so tired of his homosexuality that he performs an arcane spell that will provide his “gayness” with a corporeal form so he can murder it!

Fowler Still is a 52 page illustrated tale done in rhyming verse, of a bitter and disgruntled chicken during the early Italian renaissance. Like Foghorn Leghorn from the Warner Bro. cartoons, he expounds rather stridently in faux, yet convincing intellectualism. So convincing is he that he shakes the convictions of a priest and several innocent bystanders--that is until he meets his match in the form of a comely lady moor.

About Tales of Home
“Beautiful and uniquely John Dimes.....”
-Elizabeth Richards, author of Rescue and Everyday

About Tales of Home:
“Playful.... a successful interplay of wonderful images, and text.”

About Fowler Still:
“Thought provoking, wonderfully drawn, and it seems to contain a lasting truth.”
-Reviews from Writers Digest Magazine

About Le Tarot De J’heralt:
“The premise is sly, the wit is wry, and the writing is extremely clever. ‘Le Tarot...’ could be and should be produced as theater.”
- Writer’s Digest Magazine

About Le Tarot De J’heralt
“Arty, well-executed fiction and comics....”
-A Reader’s Guide To The Underground Press