Bruce Zeines

Born in Brooklyn, raised in Queens, NY, my life has always been one of creative enterprise. The first real influence on my work was my older brother (who later became a sculptor,) who drew really cool space ships and aliens. Soon I made my way to the comic book collection we shared and began copying images of Superman and Flash. As my crazy teenage years came upon me, my interest in doodling in my notebooks turned into a full scale dedication to the art of cartooning, inspired by the underground comic movement.

After high school, I attended the School of Visual Arts (SVA.) The environment opened me up to many ideas and possibilities that I had not seen before. It gave me the opportunity to work with Burt Hasen, Jerry Moriarty, Barbara Nessim, Marshall Arisman and Irwin Fleminger.

After I left art school, I needed to find paying work and found it more reasonable to work as a graphic artist than to carry boxes in a warehouse. As I progressed, my skills multiplied. I have worked as a designer, art director, retoucher and illustrator. My drawn illustrations and collages have been published in The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, trade publications, magazines, local newspapers and comic rags. My first and only comic strip, "...