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*Bio from www.comicspace.com*
I’m an American artist, who’s worked freelance primarily in comics, animation, gaming, and film.
I’ve worked in the comics industry for such companies as Blackthorne, TSR, Malibu, Eclipse, Antarctic Press, and Tundra/ Kitchen Sink Press.
My artistic influences, past and present, range from Jim Steranko, Masamune Shirow, Kevin Nowlan, Kenichi Sonoda, Alex Toth, Bruce Timm, Dave Johnson. And you can never go wrong with Jack Kirby or Will Eisner. I’m currently enjoying the work of guys like Darwyn Cooke these days.
Influenced at an early age by the U.S. versions of anime classics such as Speed Racer and Star Blazers, (Space Cruiser Yamato) I was one of the earliest U.S. artists to work in the anime/manga style. I did covers in this style for Shiruken, Lensman, and Zetraman. I was a co-artist on the 1989 Eclipse Comics parody book, Adolescent Black Belt Hamsters Massacre The Japanese Invasion. I did a manga-style version of Larry Welz’ Cherry Poptart in the Tundra/ KSP book, Cherrie’s Jubilee, drawing two stories for the book (writing and drawing a risque Speed Racer parody).
Here’s an interview conducted by Lisa Jonte on Sequential Tart about my working in the manga style.
In 1994, I co-published the Sambu Gassho Special , with Shepherd Hendrix & Edward Leuna. The book was a 40-page, squarebound black & white anthology with each artist writing and drawing a segment with a character they each created. Printed in Japan, this was a Doujinshi for the 1994 Summer Comiket, (or Comic Market) which was attended by Hendrix and Leuna. The book was later put into distribution in the U.S. comic market where it quickly sold out print run of 3,000 copies.
I recently contributed to Jimmie Robinson’s Bomb Queen II: Queen Of Hearts series for Image Comics. I also recently self-published a Curious George parody called The Drunky Wunky Monkey.
From 1998-2000, I worked for Berkeley, CA-based, Midland Productions as a production illustrator and art department manager/ production coordinator on Midland’s attempt at a CGI animated film, Robots of Mars. I recently received a production illustrator credit for the 2005 CGI animated ride film, Robots Of Mars 3-D Adventure . In 2005, I did storyboards and acted in the indie film, Usher , directed by Roger Brown. I played a drunken, obnoxious theatre patron (no jokes about typecasting). I recently produced some promotional art for the 2006 indie horror film, Blood Gulch, which stars Debbie Rochon.
My notable art credits in the gaming field are for the classic Arduin Grimoire RPG books and game modules for David A. Hargrave & Grimoire Games, the space-faring RPG, Star Rovers for Archive Miniatures, (box art and many interior illustrations) and the Worlds Beyond game supplement book for Otherworld Games. I contributed many of the most memorable covers and interior llustrations (close to 80 pieces of art) to the Arduin series. This was some of the earliest paying work I got.
Though I prefer the manga look, I work in diverse styles (dial-a-style). I grew up in the sixties reading Lee & Kirby, and my work is informed by a lot of genre movies & TV shows I watched as a kid.
Born in Auburn, CA, in 1960, I’m currently residing in Alameda, CA (where they kept the nuclear wessels) with my lovely wife and two cats.
I’m currently at work on a graphic novel for Image Comics, with writer Derek McCulloch (Stagger Lee, Comic Book Tattoo).
(11/24/08) I just completed two covers for Emperor’s Choice Games for their upcoming Arduin Trilogy hardcover.
