Spencer Shefts
Retail Operations & Merchandising Consultant
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The Analog Master in a Digital World is a personal essay and visual narrative about adapting decades of relationship-based retail experience to a world increasingly governed by algorithms, apps, automation, and databases.
My father, Allen Shefts, taught me to pay attention,...
THE UNDERSTUDY is a visual memoir created in memory of my father. It traces an inheritance from the segregated New York poolrooms of the 1960s, where my father learned beside billiards legend Cisero Murphy, through my own decades at Jerry’s Artist Outlet, and finally to an empty...
The Round-Headed Beneficiary is a seven-page graphic memoir combining psychedelic fable, noir sequential art, disability narrative, and fiduciary satire. Inspired by Harry Nilsson’s The Point!, I developed the concept, script, characters, dialogue, page structure, and visual...
For years, Jerry’s Artist Outlet built a temporary home inside New York Comic Con. The booth took days to assemble, survive, and tear back down.
But the convention floor was never the part I remembered most clearly.
The real memory began after the crates were sealed.
THEE AUTASTICS is my independently created comic about a group of disabled and neurodivergent misfits from Orange, New Jersey. They don’t have superpowers—they have special needs, sharp instincts, and their own strange ways of solving neighborhood problems.
I created the original...
