Randy DuBurke grew up in New York, where he lives today. He has been drawing ever since he can remember, and at the age of six announced to his mother that he was going to be an artist. As a kid, he loved storytelling, movies and comics - the comics, it seemed to him, were simply films on paper - and his first illustrations were of Batman and Star Trek. Later he was influenced by N. C. Wyeth and Howard Pyle, still later by Maurice Sendak. Randy's illustrations have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Mad Magazine, D.C. and Marvel comics, and science fiction magazines such as Galaxy Publication's Forbidden Zone. This is his first book.