Ever since I was a little kid housed on remote army bases, I've been a big science fiction and horror fan.
Between building tree forts, biking all over the local towns, and playing soldier with fireworks as weapons in the abandoned training grounds littering the nearby woods, I've always had my head in the clouds. Dreaming of far off worlds, making up fantastical stories, and reading every comic or book I could get from the local library or used book store.
As a punk rocker in high school, I painted all my friends leather jackets, and illustrated their fanzines and album covers. Finally rising from the homelessness my religious parents left me in, I attended art school on my own dime, and then moved to NYC in an attend to kickstart a career.
Depressing interviews with an almost bankrupt Marvel and DC Comics helped push me into illustrated novels, and it's proved to be the ideal format.
I do illustrations and painting for everything from books, magazines, and bands, and now I've just released my third novel, "The End of the World.