Jared Cullum was born in 1985 in Johnson City, TN. He is a cartoonist-writer and painter of things living in Pittsburgh, PA with a deep passion for connecting with people through visual story-telling. Between developing stories he teaches traditional painting and anatomy and spends his days exploring the lessons that can be learned from 19th century painting and how they can be used to innovate in story-telling. He has also written and painted stories for Boom!-Archaia and Jim Henson Productions working on titles such as: Planet of the Apes, Labyrinth, Fraggle Rock, and Storyteller.