Born: March 23,1958 in Patterson, NJ. At the tender age of four I found a stash of crayons and began my life's work. I learned to draw by using my bedroom walls as a canvas. My artwork soon spilled out into the nearby hallway. Several years later, having run out of wall space, and with the help of my dad's ladder, I began to decorate the hallway ceiling. It was then that my mom called me her 'Little Michelangelo. While my parents encouraged my drawing skills I discovered, having returned home from the military, that most of my artwork had been painted over.John Palamidy is a cartoonist who, from his first published cartoon in 1981, has never laid his pen down. While enjoying the rigors of cranking out comic strips, he often changes gears and comments on daily affairs by turning his pen toward editorial cartoons. You can check out his latest offerings on JohnPalamidy.com.My comic strip 'Coogie, ' which ran in the University of Houston's Daily Cougar student newspaper for twelve years, is the longest running comic strip in the paper's history. From those strips, mostly about campus life and squirrels, I self-published 'Basically Coogie' in 1998.John was the editorial cartoonist at The Pasadena Citizen for eighteen years, with 1200 drawings published.