About me

Iam a member of the neurodivergent community and an American color artist for comic books, a career which began in 1991. I’ve worked for most of the larger comics publishers in the United States during my career but have worked mostly for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Vertigo, Dark Horse and Image.

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In Makarska, Croatia in 2012.

Over the years, I’ve worked on Preacher, Wytches, Hawkeye, Death: The Time of Your Life, Grendel Tales, Earth X, Daredevil, Hellboy, Tokyo Ghost, Batman: White Knight, Little Bird, Iron Fist, SuicidersWe Stand on Guard, Catwoman, The Wake, The Filth, Thor, Punisher, Wolverine and many, many more comics.

My current gigs are Precious Metal (with Darcy Van Poelgeest, Ian Bertram, and Aditya Bidikar) and Love Everlasting (with Tom King, Elsa Charretier, and Clayton Cowles) for Image Comics and Captain America (with J. Michael Strazcynski, and Jesús Saiz) for Marvel Comics.

From 2004-2006 I took a break from comics to work on visual effects in Los Angeles, working on 7 films including Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Surf’s Up, Serenity and Superman Returns at Stan Winston Digital, Rhythm and Hues and Sony Pictures Imageworks. I worked mostly as a texture painter but also did some lighting and effects animation.

In 2006, I returned to comics work with the series The Eternals with Neil Gaiman and John Romita Jr., quickly followed by a return to Daredevil. That same year, I left Santa Monica and moved to Croatia and have lived here ever since. I live in a small town called Samobor with my amazing family and our furry friends.

In 2012, I co-founded the first competition for homebrewed beer in Croatia. I was head beer judge for Croatia for 7 years and we trained beer judges over the years who later opened commercial breweries and sparked the craft beer revolution here in Croatia.

In my free time, I still brew beer as I have since 1997, occasionally doing a commercial beer at Pivovara Medvedgrad in Zagreb, Croatia.

I spend most of my free time writing prose, and have one story published by Tales from the Moonlit Path, with another story soon to be published by Interzone.

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