The Ancient Marquis Dwarfs the Doofus Archiving and Presages the Demise of the Scribble Academy Drawing

Born in 1971 in Hancock, Michigan, Daniel C. Boyer spent his childhood in nearby Houghton, with the exception of 1981-82, when the family lived in London, Ontario, Canada. In 1987, after chancing upon Andre Breton's "Manifestoes of Surrealism" in a college library, he made his first automatic drawings and paintings. He would join the Surrealist Movement in the United States in 1992. In 1994 he moved to Waltham, Massachusetts; the same year his book "The Octopus Frets: political poems" (for which he also did the frontispiece) was published. He graduated in 1997 from Curry College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics and History, after which he studied at Harvard University. He then moved to Concord, New Hampshire. In 1998 he moved briefly to Medford, Massachusetts before returning to Concord; this same year he made his first entopic graphomanias. In 2001 he returned to Houghton. In 2003 his artist's book "The Tailgating Spinster" was published by Fiji Island Mermaid Press. In 2005 he was named an Academical Knight of Verbano of the Ordine Accademio Internazionale "Greci-Marino". In 2008 his book "The Peloponnesian Snows," perhaps the first-ever book published in the webdings font, was released; he also designed the cover. Later that year he designed the dust cover of his exclusively large-print book "What Snow Disrupts," published by Idealist Press International, Ltd. He is an honourary alumnus of The Johns Hopkins University. In 2012 he moved to New York City.