History Creator / TomBeland

Beland has also worked in other comics. His favorite character is Franchise/SpiderMan, and he also wrote a ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' miniseries where the heroes come to Puerto Rico to investigate the mystery of the {{Chupacabra}}. In 2014, he wrote and drew a graphic novel for IDW called Chicacabra, about a girl (inspired by his wife) who get's a Chupacabra merged with her body.

Beland is from Napa Valley, California, where he used to work as a cartoonist for a local newspaper. Then he was sent to cover the opening of [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disney World's]] Animal Kingdom theme park for the paper; while there, he met Garcia (who was also covering the opening) while both were waiting for a bus. They hit it off so well that they started a long-distance relationship, but neither was convinced about moving to the other's country until hurricane Georges struck Puerto Rico, causing Beland to worry about Garcia's safety. Beland then decided to move to the island and live with Lily. Adapting to life in another country where he didn't speak the local language, much less finding work there, was pretty difficult but Tom eventually managed.

* BerserkButton: The only thing that gets to usually cool-and-wise Lily is... her mother.
* DeadpanSnarker: Tom, sometimes.

* NewAge: Lily has some beliefs like these. It used to baffle Tom, but he got used to it.
* SamaritanSyndrome: Lily is a genuine help-people-for-its-own-sake kind of person.
* StarvingArtist: Tom, at one point.
* TalkShow: Lily hosts one.

Beland has also worked in other comics. His favorite character is Franchise/SpiderMan, and he also wrote a ComicBook/FantasticFour miniseries where the heroes come to Puerto Rico to investigate the mystery of the {{Chupacabra}}. In 2014, he wrote and drew a graphic novel for IDW called Chicacabra, about a girl (inspired by his wife) who get's a Chupacabra merged with her body.

Beland has also worked in other comics. His favorite character is SpiderMan, and he also wrote a ComicBook/FantasticFour miniseries where the heroes come to Puerto Rico to investigate the mystery of the {{Chupacabra}}. In 2014, he wrote and drew a graphic novel for IDW called Chicacabra, about a girl (inspired by his wife) who get's a Chupacabra merged with her body.

Beland was later convinced to publish his comic telling his personal life story independently (though it has also been published by Creator/ImageComics.) It has gathered its own loyal following, even from superhero comic book geeks thanks to their seeing Beland as "{{one of us}}".

Beland was later convinced to publish his comic telling his personal life story independently (though it has also been published by ImageComics.) It has gathered its own loyal following, even from superhero comic book geeks thanks to their seeing Beland as "{{one of us}}".

Tom Beland is an American comic book artist/writer best known for his autobiographical comic series '''True Story Swear To God'''. In turn the series is best known for telling the story of Beland's romance with Puerto Rican TV personality Lily Garcia.

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[[caption-width:180: Tom and Lily, as drawn by him]]

Beland is from Napa Valley, California, where he used to work as a cartoonist for a local newspaper. Then he was sent to cover the opening of [[{{Disney}} Disney World's]] Animal Kingdom theme park for the paper; while there, he met Garcia (who was also covering the opening) while both were waiting for a bus. They hit it off so well that they started a long-distance relationship, but neither was convinced about moving to the other's country until hurricane Georges struck Puerto Rico, causing Beland to worry about Garcia's safety. Beland then decided to move to the island and live with Lily. Adapting to life in another country where he didn't speak the local language, much less finding work there, was pretty difficult but Tom eventually managed.

Beland has also worked in other comics. His favorite character is SpiderMan, and he also wrote a ComicBook/FantasticFour miniseries where the heroes come to Puerto Rico to investigate the mystery of the {{Chupacabra}}.

* ForeignCountryPopularity: Tom and Lily trade places as the "celebrity of the family" in each others' country.

Beland has also worked in other comics. His favorite character is SpiderMan, and he also wrote a FantasticFour miniseries where the heroes come to Puerto Rico to investigate the mystery of the {{Chupacabra}}.

Beland is from Napa Valley, California, where he used to work as a cartoonist for a local newspaper. Then he was sent to cover the opening of [[{{Disney}} Disney World's]] Animal Kingdom theme park for the paper; while there, he met Garcia while both were waiting for a bus. They hit it off so well that they started a long-distance relationship, but neither was convinced about moving to the other's country until hurricane Georges struck Puerto Rico, causing Beland to worry about Garcia's safety. Beland then decided to move to the island and live with Lily. Adapting to live in another country where he didn't speak the local language, much less finding work there, was pretty difficult but Tom eventually managed.

* SamaritanSyndrome: Lily is a genuinely help-people-for-its-own-sake kind of person.