Attoboy is the website of Calgary based illustrator and designer, Derek Mah.

The presentable stuff is organized into individual galleries in the Showcase. Experiments, sketches and the like are tucked into Diversions. What little is known of Attoboy is here in Atto Info.

So have a look around. Feel free to poke stuff and be careful of the cats. Send your feedback via the Contact page.

It all began with comic books. Comics have always been one of those things for me, like Battlestar Galactica or Saga. Back in the day I was working on self publishing a minicomic and needed an imprint for the cover.

Several working titles came and went before Attoboy materialized. I won't bore you with the details. Bottom line is it fit and the rest is history.

A supporting website followed which over the next few years evolved from a single user folder hosted by the legendary Cadvision into a full fledged website under its own domain.

Attoboy generated some positive attention from the web-celestia of the day and was responsible for attracting a fair run of gigs from 1996 through 2002. It was all good, but the success of that busy time also prevented me from updating my own website (that's my story and I'm sticking to it) for almost four years. Attoboy entered the twenty-first century gamely wearing the same old content like a pair of tattered Sperry Topsiders:

Sometime in late 2000 (right around the time Telus completed its buyout of Cadvision) I moved the site to a new host and rebuilt it with the dark blue Client Access frontpage. This short lived version of Attoboy was a client-only site containing restricted access development materials and website prototypes. There was no publicly accessible content. Everyone hated it.

So I decided to retool Attoboy for content. "A weekend's work, tops," I thought, "maybe I'll do something with the interface, too."

A mere sixty-odd weekends later Attoboy v2 was born - and here we are! Yay! This version of the site includes a deeper cross section of work and is better organized. The code has been updated to current standards and should work consistently in most browsers.

Windows users encountering problems should reinstall Windows, reverse polarity, increase the phase variance of the transfer bus, and add more neon to the motherboard, in that order. Ahh, I kid because I love...

Thanks for coming by!