About the artist

ARNIE BERMUDEZ is an independent cartoonist/illustrator . He is a lifelong artist and a full-time goofball. He likes to read comic books, listen to the Cure, draw, read more comic books, run, snowboard, skate, draw some more, and enjoys being a smart-mouth. He also likes to go to schools and tell kids to say no to drugs, go to college so they can draw and become artists instead of doctors and engineers. If you would like to contact God, err, Arnie, you can e-mail him at [email protected]. Or you can stalk him on-line or in the real world which he finds quite flattering.

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Bio

I was born and raised in Yuma, Arizona and moved to Tucson to go to college. I grew up on both sides of the border and speaking two languages.  I attended the University of Arizona and graduated in 2004 with a Bachelor's of Fine Arts.  In my college years I worked for the school newspaper The Daily Wildcat. During my time at the Wildcat I worked as a cartoonist writing and drawing a daily cartoon strip called Sarape's Grill which ran for 4 years and was a semi-finalist in the MTVU college cartoonist contest. During my time with the Wildcat I also began freelancing with The Tucson Citizen Newspaper providing them with illustrations and political caricatures. Eventually, my freelancing lead to full-time employment with the Citizen where I enjoyed working as a staff artist and being the youngest member of the editorial board for 2 years, until the demise of the print edition. During these years I produced a weekly cartoon strip by the name of Coyote Wash as well as countless graphics, illustrations and caricatures for the oldest continuously published newspaper in Arizona, until 2009.

Currently I am a freelance illustrator and cartoonist.