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I was born in the small town of Geneva, New York in 1969. Grew up enjoying scary stuffed animal toys and a big collection of real animal skulls and fish in jars that my science teacher father gave me. Also ugly stickers and wacky packages were a influence on my young artworks. In '79 the whole family (mom, dad sister and new baby brother) moved to FL. As a teen in nineteen eightys I would find myself getting harrased by cops on my bike or walking down the street and later pulled over in my car. I was being profiled because I had long hair and was young. I ended up putting a life like plastic human skull faceing out my back car window with blue lights in the eyes that light when breaks are hit. I would tell the pigs it was my grandmas skull and this was her last wish. I loved my grandma. I had been involved in making art since a child but now started to think about the social problems in my surroundings like the molesting priests and how the cases were swept under the rug. Also at age 13 I discovered reprints of the old EC horror comics and soon after underground comics of the seventys. In my last couple years in high school I started to draw comics in mind to print myself. Some storys were about teachers we didnt like and I would pass these around the class for a laugh. In '87 after high school graduation me and a friend made a comic book called HVUYIM we didnt know what the title meant or how to say it but the idea was to make it like a mystery. We made the book at his printing job on a real old time press. After that I made copy machine comic books Angelfuck #1-#3 , Slaughterhouse comix #1 - #2, Boiled Angel #1 - #8 also a number of mini comic books along the way.