Sketch Turner, a ' starving artist' and freelance rock musician living in New York City, is working on his newest comic book, Comix Zone. Plot Screenshot from the first 'page' of Comix Zone It explores how the gameplay and the comic book elements would blend in.

The concept for the game originated from a 1992 demo video for the Amiga titled 'Joe Pencil Trapped In The Comix Zone', animated by Peter Morawiec. This style is in previous video games, for example Ocean Software's Batman: The Caped Crusader in 1988, but Comix Zone stretched the idea to such an extent that Sega applied for and was granted a patent for a 'videogame system for creating a simulated comic book game'. It is set within the panels of a comic book with dialogue rendered within talk bubbles and sprites, and backgrounds possessing the bright colors and dynamic drawing style of superhero comics. Comix Zone is a 1995 beat 'em up video game developed and published by Sega for the Genesis.