I've been drawing for a long time, or then again I may never have drawn before. It's impossible for me to be sure for exactly how long because I can't calculate how long versions of myself have been drawing (or not drawing) in other dimensions and time lines. If you look at your reflection in a mirror in front of you and simultaneously a mirror behind you, you can see infinity.

This is a visual example of how long I have been possibly drawing: Infinity ... Or it shows how much I haven't drawn. Is the past still a reality? If not, then I've never drawn anything in my life. And if reality is an illusion (like in The Matrix) then I never really will draw anything ever. But to quote the great Conan, The Cimmerian, "... If life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.”

I drew a lot of circles as an infant. That is beyond my memory but I still do draw circles to this day. I try overcome self-doubt with regards to my work by drawing as I did earlier in my life: with a naive passion and intense enthusiasm for the subject matter. I get inspiration from comic books, Heavy Metal music, Dungeons&Dragons, epic Fantasy literature, pulpy Sword & Sorcery tales, exploitation cinema and pre-Renaissance Italian painters. I try to plan ahead as little as possible to allow space for my stream of consciousness to plant ideas.

I was born in Canada but my folks quickly moved us to the suburbs outside New York City when my pop finished off his schooling in science. I was nearly a year old.

I studied illustration at Syracuse University, where I spent a semester abroad in Florence, Italy. I received a M.F.A. in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts.

Since graduating from college, in addition to doing freelance illustration, I've worked in newspapers and new media design.

My other previous jobs have included: lifeguard, cashier at Toys 'R' Us during the holiday season, park ranger assistant, mover, bus boy and bartender.

I live in Brooklyn.

Domestic: Rolling Stone Magazine, Playboy Magazine, Radar Magazine, Paper Magazine, Nylon Magazine, Time Out Chicago, WK12 (Widen+Kennedy), Fuse Marketing, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Op-Ed Page, Philadelphia Citypaper, R5 Productions, McGraw-Hill Book Publishers, Gannett Newspapers, The Journal News, Rabid Rabbit, [Im]perfect Articles

International: Esquire Magazine (Russia), Voxer Magazine (Belgium), Large Magazine (Australia), Bongout Design Group (Germany), Code Magazine (Holland), Computer Blue (England), Bang Your Head (Belgium), Plin Tub' (Belgium), Zeke Bazaar (Belgium)

The Undiscovered Letter Finalist, The Art Directors Club, 2008
Gold or Silver Medal Finalist, Society of Publication Designers, 2008
Pro Show 4, 3x3 Illustration, 2007
Young Guns 5, The Art Directors Club, 2006
American Illustration 24, 2005
Society of Illustrators Student Show and Competition 1999

"Dollypop," World of Wonder Storefront Gallery, Los Angeles, 2008
"i am 8-bit," World of Wonder Storefront Gallery, Los Angeles, 2008
"The Undiscovered Letter," The Art Directors Club, New York, 2008
"Tree Trimmings," JFllynn Gallery, Costa Mesa, 2008
"i am 8-bit," Gallery 1988, Los Angeles, 2007
"Fumetto Internationales Comix-Festival," Fumetto, Luzern, 2007
"Plin Tub'," Brussels, 2007 (click here)
"Young Guns 5," The Art Directors Club, New York, 2006
"M.F.A. Thesis Show," P.P.O.W., New York, 2003
"Turning Page Book Show," AIGA, New York, 2002

ComicsComics, June 17, 2008
The Morning News, February 1, 2008
Lost at E Minor, November 16, 2007
Philly Edge, April 11, 2007
Graphic Design USA Magazine, February 2007
Code Magazine feature, Autumn 2006
8- Page Feature in Voxer Magazine, October 2005
Launching the Imagination, by Mary Stewart, 2002

I'm available for commissioned pieces.
Please email me for details.