Education
He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1979.
He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1979.
He was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel for his 2005 book Siren Promised (co-written by Jeremy Robert Johnson). His book The Paint in My Blood was nominated for the "Best Art Book" for the 2005 Locus Awards. lieutenant was also nominated for the 2005 International Horror Guild Award for their "Non-fiction" category.
His artwork has been featured on many signed limited editions from Cemetery Dance Publications, Lonely Road Books, Subterranean Press, Earthling Publications, and many other publishers of hardcovers as well as illustrations on the covers and interiors of textbooks, children"s books, paperbacks, magazines and CDs.
He owns the publishing company, IFD Publishing (started in 1999). Mr. is listed in the newest edition of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary edited by Robert Weinberg, Jane Frank (McFarland & Company, 2009).
Pain & Other Petty Plots to Keep You in Stitches (a short story collection edited by Alan M featuring illustrations, novella and short stories by him and a few others) (IFD Publishing, 2003). The Blood of Father Time, Book 1, The New Cut (co-authored by Alan M, Stephen C Merritt, and Lorelei Shannon).
The Blood of Father Time, Book 2, The Mystic Clan"s Grand Plot (co-authored by Alan M, Stephen C Merritt, and Lorelei Shannon) (Five Star Press, July 2007).