Biography

Bill Krupinski started drawing when he first crawled onto a roll of shelf paper with a crayon clutched in his sticky little hand.  He hasn't stopped since.

Claiming his ideas come from "living in my head while going out of my mind", he draws from a deep inner wellspring clarified by his experience as a self-made artist.

Early on, Bill hustled his own gigs drawing posters for rock bands and doing illustration, cartoons and ads for the alternative press.  Plenty of ink and many tears were shed in the screen-printing industry.  Later, he learned the arcane secrets of the pre-computer sign trade.  He ran his own sign shop, The sign Wizard,  for 20 years before closing it forever in 2000.  Read the story "Brush To Judgment" to find out why.

With superior command of the traditional, hand-rendered disciplines, Bill nonetheless has kept apace with 21st Century technology in his work.  However, he sees no need to carry a cell phone on his person at all times, either.