ABOUT VOZ MIKE VOSBURG - "I like to draw pictures that tell stories!” So besides designing and building VOZART.COM what else has this guy done. There’s his favorite project: TALES FROM THE CRYPTt: Originally hired to do concept drawings for the wraparound sequence, Voz also storyboarded the title segment as well as illustrating EVERY cover used in the 93 episodes. One of the job perks was to shoot reference photos of the hundreds of guest stars including Wendy Malick, Kirk Douglas, Mimi Rogers...the list goes on. He also found time to fill in when needed as a storyboard artist on some of the shows.. To top it off, he also appeared twice in a cameo appearance, thus fulfilling a childhood acting fantasy. LA’s MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE was a real labor of love. Voz created a series of oversized comic book panels for a wall display as well as creating a series of large revolving murals and several other drawings for displays. Mike thought it might be his only chance to hang in a museum. Cover done for HBO's TALES FROM THE CRYPT. A really FUN show to work on! FILM is another area Mike has worked in over the years, storyboarding scenes for a number of well known directors including John Frankenheimer, Bob Zemeckis, Allen Arkush and Gil Adler...on projects as diverse as David Mamet’s The Water Engine, The Elian Gonzalez Story, Prince Charming and Demon Knight. LORI LOVECRAFT and his comic book projects still draws him back to his roots.. Just don’t ask Mike to name his favorite comic character at Marvel Comics-he doesn’t have one. After years of trying to be a square peg, Voz left traditional comics toTpursue his own creations, including Off-Castes, Lori Lovecraft, Mummy’s Boy, and the upcoming Retrowood- the last two being projects desiqned specifically for the web. While the money has always been bad, drawing comics is still his first love. Never having the opportunity to attend art school, Vosburg learned his craft from the help and guidance of many of the artists he’s worked with through the years: Howard Chaykin, Joe Kubert, Alex Toth, Leonard Starr and so many others. The REELART paintings that Voz has been creating the past few years reflect the influence of illustration. N.C. Wyeth, Dean Cornwell, Charles Dana Gibson, J.C. Lyendecker, Rockwell, Coby Whitmore, Austin Briggs, Noel Sickles, Bernie Fuchs, Drew Struzan, Bob Peak and especially Bob McGinnins and Robert Fawcett have been his sources of inspiration. (Inspiration was once defined by the late, great Wally Wood as: Never DRAW what you can COPY, neverCOPY what you can trace, and never TRACE what you can XEROX. Wally would have loved Photoshop...and used it beautifully.) Still not bored yet. Well here’s even more about Voz! A resident of Los Angeles who loves the sunshine and mountains, this native Californian was kidnapped at infancy and forced to live the first 37 years of his life in the cold gloomy confines of Michigan. Vosburg kept his creative spirit alive by staring at N.C. Wyeth illustrations in the local library and reading Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu stories and anything else that would send chills down his spine. While TV was banned in his household for many years he found his solace at the local cheap movie theatres; his favorites were Alfred Hitchcock thrillers and Bob Hope comedies. And of course, he read every comic he could lay his hands on. The original plan was to be a writer of particularly eerie and salacious material. His school chum Fred suggested he add some pictures to spice them up. ( Fred was abmitious enough to have drawn literally hundreds of his own homemade comics). Voz quickly realized drawing stories was a lot more fun than writing them. As a teenager, Mike wrote, edited and occasional contributed artwork to his very successful comicbook fanzine,Masquerader. But living in the car capital of Michigan, the idea of making a living as a cartoonist seemed a fantasy....much like living in a land where the sun shines every day. It wasn’t until after working as a custodial engineer (janitor) , manufacturing consultant (assembly-line worker), sports idol (basketball coach), and fascist prison guard (schoolteacher) that Voz discovered all his cronies from his fanzine days were making really BIG BUCKS drawing comics for Marvel and DC. Mike followed them. The BIG BUCKS never materialized, but after getting his first professional job, Vosburg decided it was time to REALLY learn how to draw and spent all his spare time trying to catch up on his shortcomings. Unaware of other opportunites where artists could actually make decent money, Mike continued to work in comics, polishing his drawing and storytelling skills and generally having a great time. Or so he thought. Frames for ABC KIDS promo presented by Creative Domain. Profoundly affected by George Orwell, in l984 Mike married the beautiful and vivacious Anna Moon, who suggested that for their honeymoon they move to: CALIFORNIA!!! The Golden West seem like home to Mike from the moment he entered the state. Opportunities in film and animation he had only dreamed of were now suddenly available. Voz swears the only way he’ll ever wind up back in the cold midwest is if he’s kidnapped again.
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