ARTIST'S BIO (Patreon)

Also requested by the gallery is an "Artist's Bio":
Bio 1-23-19

 Graduated from BOCES Cultural Arts Center (Syosset, N.Y.), then took a  few college classes in art at Hofstra University (Hempstead, N.Y.) while  beginning a freelance art and writing career. 

 Left home at seventeen, ekeing out what some would call a semi-living  at my crafts while enjoying a lovely semi-homeless existence on  Manhattan's waterfront. Finally landed in a Brooklyn brownstone where I  spent seven waterbuggy years. 

Did everything I could, I wasn't  particular. Wrote and drew comic books and comic strips for magazines  and small newspapers, illustrated, designed record covers, posters,  candy and T-shirts, and exhibited paintings and drawings, the major  gallery being Psychedelic Solution in Manhattan. Spent the 1980's on the  outskirts of the "radical art scene" of Greenwich Village. A  challenging time, if not always a happy one. 

Labor on Ninja  Turtles comics allowed me to get up a grubstake to move to Los Angeles  in 1991, lured by prospects of a more healthful existence. There  followed a riot and a few earthquakes while working in animation as a  designer, animator, and debuting as a director thanks to my good friend  Felix the Cat (and yes, I did a spot of work for Disney). My work in the  print media continued until that market petered out thanks to computers  and The New Dark Ages.

To retain my sanity (HA), I work on a  stream of independent projects, which have included a first novel,  independent animation, and the painting.

Became a Bloomington resident in June of 2018.