John Tompkins started out as a baby and grew from there. Strongly influenced by Saturday morning cartoons, Walt Disney feature animation, newspaper strips and a heavy dose of Bronze-age Marvel comics he shunned art classes in school because they focused on macaroni necklaces and sculpting paper weights. He taught himself to draw by borrowing elements from other artists. By high school he was doing political cartoons and t-shirts for dchool groups. In college he drew his first comic stories for local church youth groups. In 2005 he was called by artist Fred...more
