I was born in 1960 and have been an obsessive image maker for as long as I can remember--I began my professional endeavors early, selling drawings of hot-rods and monsters to my classmates for twenty five cents per commission.
This kept me supplied with candy and comic books. As the years gathered behind me I continued to study and practice, spending long hours at the local library(s) educating myself about any and all approaches to making artwork. Along the way I experimented with painting in as many media as I could afford to try, and earned money cartooning for a local newspaper, punctuated by an occasional commission from neighbors or friends of my family.
I knew I wanted to earn my living through my love of drawing, though I loved stories and reading almost as much, so I set my sights on becoming a comic book artist. When I achieved this goal in 1981, I reasoned (and it proved to be true) that this field demanded daily constant drawing of any subject that a writer or I could dream up, and offered constant challenges of staging exciting melodrama. I worked like a maniac for the next fifteen years, creating thousands of story pages and illustrations for publishers including:
Marvel, DC, Dark Horse and others, dramatizing the adventures of Batman, Superman, Spiderman, the X-men, the Hulk, Star Wars, The Dark Crystal, and countless other fantasy characters and realms. I treated each script as an opportunity to stretch my skills and learn, and received a fantastic education in the disciplines of draftsmanship, composition and visualizing imagination.
In 1996 I was ready for a change, and found it in the field of television animation. I began contributing storyboards to Warner Brothers' Superman cartoons, and have since worked on full seasons of Batman, Batman Beyond, Static Shock and The Justice League of America, along with occasional episodes of X-men for Film Roman, as well as Tarzan and Atlantis for Disney.
Fantasy and storytelling are just facets of my picturemaking passions, though--I've always loved to draw and paint from life, and in the last few years have found more time to explore the more subtle challenges and pleasures to be found in this direct response to nature. My unscripted artwork is displayed at The Arts Prescott Cooperative Gallery in Prescott, Arizona, and on sections of this website.