Background
Saenz was born in in Chicago, Illinois.
Saenz was born in in Chicago, Illinois.
He is the creator of Shatter, as well as an early adult video game, MacPlaymate. Reactor produced Spaceship Warlock, Virtual Valerie, Virtual Valerie 2, Virtual Valerie: The Director"s Cut, and Donna Matrix. The comic book Shatter was written by Peter Gillis and illustrated on the computer by Saenz.
lieutenant was initially drawn on a first-generation Macintosh using a mouse, and printed on a dot-matrix printer.
lieutenant was then photographed like a piece of traditionally drawn black-and-white comic art, and the color separations were applied in the traditional manner of the period. After a brief career as a professional comic book artist for hire, he went solo and continued to innovate in the fields of comics as well as computers.
He developed ComicWorks, the first computer program for creating comics. He later went on to develop Iron Manitoba: Crash (Marvel Comics, 1988).
In 1993, Saenz created Donna Matrix, a computer-generated graphic novel with 3-Doctorate graphics, published by Reactor Press.
Saenz also created the cover for Chicago punk band Naked Raygun"s first album Throb Throb.