Welcome to Draft Nine.

Draft Nine is the creative home of Joseph Mazzaro — a writer, designer, content manager, and creative systems builder.

Joe makes books, comics, visual stories, and workflow experiments that explore how creative ideas become finished things. His work spans self-published books, illustrated narratives, digital publishing, production templates, and practical experiments with emerging creative tools.

The site is part portfolio, part archive, and part workshop: a place for stories, systems, process notes, and long-running creative projects.

Here you’ll find Joe’s books, an ongoing unofficial history of Pixton Comics, and a growing collection of projects about storytelling, creative production, and making complicated creative work feel a little more manageable.

Joe also — occasionally — refers to himself in the third person.