John Patrick Green

[from illustrator's website]
Like many children of the late seventies, one of my biggest influences was Star Wars. I grew up reading comic books so it was just inevitable that I'd end up in the field.

I went to School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, where I majored in Graphic Design. During college I met Dave Roman, and we soon formed Cryptic Press, the company we publish our comics Quicken Forbidden and Teen Boat through. Upon graduating I became Assistant Art Director of the now defunct Penthouse Comix. Shortly after I went on to become the Comics Consultant at Disney Adventures Magazine. After a brief stint as an Assistant Editor, I went freelance. In addition to handling layout and production of the comics that appeared in Disney Adventures, I wrote, colored, and lettered a number of them. Other comic work includes layout and production of graphic novels for Scholastic and First Second Books.

I've done a lot of work in the video game industry, from writing narratives for virtual worlds, designing multiplayer mini-games, to doing background art and animation. Teen Boat has since been collected into two volumes from Clarion Books, and my latest graphic novel is Hippopotamister — my first as both writer and artist — from First Second Books.