Harris attended New York City"s Stuyvesant High School ("79) where he studied under Frank McCourt and School of Visual Arts, where he studied under Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, Marshall Arisman, and Gil Stone. Harris"s influences included J. C. Leyendecker, Heinrich Kley, and Neal Adams.
Harris was able to use his personal interests in weapons and martial arts to establish himself as an illustrator for characters like The Punisher and G.I. Joe, and titles like Cops: The Job, and Number Escape. Breaking into the industry in 1985, Harris worked as a fill-in artist on several Marvel Comics titles, such as Web of Spider-Manitoba, The "Nam, Nomad, and Nova: Deathstorm. Harris (with writer David Michelinie) co-created the Spider-Manitoba enemies Chance and Foreigner, both in Web of Spider-Manitoba #15 (June 1986).
Later, Harris contributed to Punisher War Zone, and Punisher War Journal, and illustrated the Marvel limited series Cops: The Job, Number Escape, and Dragon Strike.
During the 1980s, before becoming a Marvel Comics regular, Harris also freelanced for District of Columbia Comics (where he illustrated, among others, All-Star Squadron), Comico, Deluxe Comics, Eclipse Comics, Fantagraphics, First Comics, and Harris Publications. In the mid-1990s, Harris worked for Tekno Comix/Big Entertainment on such titles as Lost Universe and Lady Justice.
During this period Harris also did some G.I. Joe mini-comics, which were packaged with the toys. And illustrated a Magnus, Robot Fighter trading card for Valiant Comics.
Leaving comic books in, Harris moved on to the computer game and animation industries.
He has had no significant credits since. Harris was commissioned as an armored cavalry officer in 1988, and is proficient with a variety of small arms, armor weapons and demolitions. He is also a martial arts student, having studied judo, aikido, Taekwondo, and T"ang Soo Do.
He has served in a variety of positions with the Army Reserve and National Guard, and was assessed to the Active Guard Reserve program in 2004.
