On May 19th, 2009, I quit my 25-year-long job in Information Technology to make a living writing, drawing and publishing comic books. It's been a long journey to this point, but I'm trusting that the journey has really just begun.

I was born December 4, 1961, in the American province of Columbus, Ohio; one day earlier, a half a world away, The Beatles had attended their first business meeting with Brian Epstein.

Inspired by Carl Barks' Disney comics, EC comic books, and a Tintin graphic novel given to me by my father, Ronald, I began drawing my own comic books around the age of 9. In 1972, I was exposed to the work of genius cartoonist Jack Kirby, forever inspiring me to want to write, draw and publish comic books.

After winning a Governor's Award of Excellence from Ohio Governor James A Rhodes, I attended the Columbus College of Art and Design, augmenting my education by attending showings of Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch films at local art theatres, as well as directing my own short films. In the mid '80s, I began writing, drawing, and self- publishing a series of digests and mini-comics, as part of the New Wave or Small Press movement. Two of my series, This Eternal Flaw and Pictures of Benevolence, won critical acclaim, and my The Get-A-Lifes #1 was named best mini-comic of the year by Small Press Feedback magazine.

I also began to produce freelance penciling, inking and lettering in the early '90s for such comic books as AMF's Cosmic Waves, and entered the field of art design with my logo and CD cover art for the indie group Dark Dixie ("The Manson-Nixon Line").

In 1995, I began a three-year long stint lettering for the internationally published cartoonist-provocateur Paul Pope/aka Pulp Hope (THB, Heavy Liquid, Batman: Year 100, 100%), contributing to his One Trick Rip-off graphic novel serialized in Dark Horse Presents, as well as various THB-related stories published by Pope's own Horse Press.

I then began producing and submitting my own work. Two comic stories, "I Was a Scapegoat for Love" and "Victorian Dream", were accepted and published in issues 39 and 46 of Caliber's Eisner and Harvey award nominated anthology series, Negative Burn.

In 1999, my fifteen page noir drama, "A Greater Honor" (loosely based on a true story from Herodotus' Histories), was published in Amazing Montage's Murder By Crowquill mystery anthology book; proceeds from the book's sale were donated to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

Early in 2000, I published the Quacky Pig and Friends Coloring Book, featuring the debut of Quacky Pig, Lovey Dovey, Psychoid, and Sally Mouse. Later that year, I began writing, drawing, and publishing online (with the assistance of startup capitalists Enter Polonius) a serialized, satirical Quacky Pig and Friends comic strip, culminating in a Quacky Pig graphic novel which remains unpublished. A line of Quacky Pig clothing was also released during this time.

My Reactionary Tales #1 was self-published in 2001, a psychedelic superhero comic book which was nationally distributed to comic book and pop culture stores. This book was funded by a grant from the Xeric Foundation, and featured the debut of Larvae Boy, Emperor of the Insect World, the first three chapters of This Eternal Flaw, a written and drawn introduction by Paul Pope and the first appearance of The Signifiers Universe.

I returned to the mini-comic format soon after with Michael Neno's Dream and The Toy Box, had work published in Cracked Magazine, and wrote and drew "Big Blue", an homage to Golden Age cartoonist Fletcher Hanks, published in Fightin' Fun's All Fist Comics #1. I also colored a Beetle Bailey drawing for charity, drawn by Mort Walker, wrote and drew the cover story for Juan Ortiz' Siver Comics #8, and illustrated Sirianus' satirical book, The Lost Quatrains of Nostradamus, available now on Amazon.

In early 2010, the next chapter in The Signifiers Universe epic was released: The Signifiers #1. The wacked out psychedelic epic garnered excellent online reviews and tweets! My illustrations for a western short story were recently published in the critically acclaimed novelist Van Reid's new fiction anthology series, The American Zig-Zag.

An El Muerto pinup in Javier Hernandez' new Comic Pop anthology was published in 2011. Also, so far this year, I've penciled, inked, colored and lettered a short story for Ken (Evil Empire) Eppstein's new Nix Comics Quarterly (a rock'n'roll/horror anthology) and designed characters and retro-psychedelic artwork for Columbus Symphony Orchestra Principal Clarinetist David H. Thomas' new website.

I've also created 12 frames of art for the animated video for indie band Times New Vikings' new "No Room to Live" single, available for viewing on YouTube now. Check it out!

On tap for the rest of 2011: The Signifiers #2, available for pre-ordering soon on Kickstarter.com, The Mesh #1, Landlark, the Heat-Seeking Dwarf #1 and Reactionary Tales #2. I'll be curating a gallery presentation of my work at Wild Goose Creatve in October and helping to organize a 24-Hour Comics event there this Spring.

In addition, I'm continuing to create the online comic strips The Mesh and Freak Cave and will be submitting a Cloud Buster story for Silver Comics and penciling, inking, coloring and lettering a story for Nix Comics Quarterly #2. I will be at the Small Press Alternative Comics Expo in Columbus, Ohio this March, with mucho merchandise and cool stuff for perusing and sale.

I'm also available for other con appearances and signings and do take commission requests for spot illustrations.