Aleister Gilgrim: Artist, Writer, Rotter for hire.
Born in the late 70’s in Anaheim CA, Aleister grew up with a strong fascination for horror culture, graffiti, old manga, comic art, Frankenstein monsters and terrible unicorns.
Graduating from Chapman University (2001), Aleister has worked in print comics, as a professional tattoo artist, a branding manager, VP of Creative Development, painter, freelance illustrator, clothing designer and concept artist/character designer. His print comic, The Cemeterians is available through SLG in a collected format. He has lived in the US, Russia and Japan.
Recently, Aleister was a freelance illustrator, character designer and concept designer for Disney Publishing’s “Disney English” Project. Along with hoping to begin work on a new series of gallery pieces, and is looking to get back into making comics for fun and profit. He has also begun work on a new Disney Publishing Project where he has been promoted to Senior Interactive Designer.
Aleister also (very occasionally) maintains a presence on the NR website, which is also shared with Kilian Heap and is the home of their joint-effort-webcomic of the same name:
Aleister lives happily with his fiancé Mary, and his son Salem Grey in an embarrassingly large secret lair hidden away and heavily fortified on the California coast.
Please note that Aleister does not have any real soc-net sites. He did at one time, but if you ever see one claiming to be him, it is simply not so unless it is Linkedin.
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Aleister can also be reached through his email:
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