He is also a writer who makes graphic texts on-line and in self-published chapbooks and pamphlets. He has a BFA in painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art, where he primarily studied with Julian Stanczak and Edwin Mieczkowski, and an MA in philosophy from Cleveland State University. From 2009 through 2010 his studio blog (newcleanblog.blogspot.com) was the site of Art Bum Comics, and miscellaneous texts, drawings, sculpture, and works in progress appear there more or less weekly. "