Welcome to the New Melee Comics website, expect regular updates of Tales from the White Pony as well as full free comic books posted all at
once as soon as they are finished.







Melee Comics is an "independent" comic book publisher, that publishes free comics primarily in the digital/online format. The company was founded in 2005 by Nathan Staples & Ben Dewey but the two have been producing comics together since 1998.

In addition to being the production company for Ben Dewey & Nathan Staples work Melee Comics is actively seeking new unknown talent to work with to create the same high quality original stories that it's fans have come to expect.

Nathan Staples is a freelance writer living in Cleveland, Ohio. He pushes the edge of graphic storytelling by taking familiar subject matter and putting it into a new context. Nathan has been a featured panalist at Harvard University and his work has been published by Skinner House Books and in Synapse Magazine. Nathan went on to become editor of Synapse Magazine. He is currently working on his first novel.

Ben Dewey is an internationally published freelance artist living in Portland, Oregon. As a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art he brings a traditional sensibility informed by his training as a painter to comics. As a student he won both the prestigious Mary C Page Traveling scholarship & Sue Wall Painting Scholarship.

Ben started drawing sequential graphic narratives in 3rd grade and then developed an obsession with superhero comic art which continues to this day. He is currently a member of Periscope studio where he as worked on projects for Marvel, Dark Horse, IDW and other noteworthy clients.

He loves and derives inspiration from; his beautiful girlfriend Lindsey, guitars, cats, board games, roots music, hot cereal, coffee and science of all types.