Phil Gormley launched his career as an artist while strapped in a high chair, enjoying a diet rich in crayon-colored Gerber goo. While most kids were eating their Crayolas and drawing stick figures on bathroom walls, Phil was beginning to bring creatures to life on the page. Instead of lying awake fearful of lions, tigers, and dinosaurs (oh my!), he had the twisted talent to draw them with such realism even his parents would often flee the room, running for their lives.
Though quiet and quite reserved, he is possessed by a dark – even twisted – imagination, but with a sense of humour (Hey Phil, humor is spelled H-U-M-O-R pal; only one ‘U’ . . . ‘U’ know? Even my spell checker put a nasty little squiggle under it to show it is misspelled. Sheesh... those English people . . . thinking they know English).
Phil loves animals, especially tigers, and believes the grandest art is nature itself.
A lifelong fan of Batman and the Legend of Zelda, little has changed about Phil since childhood except that he is no longer vertically challenged and can therefore reach the cookie jar without a stepladder.
Phil lives in Northwest England, in case you missed it, in a quaint little town known as Wigan. Wiganers are affectionately known as "pie eaters" due to a kerfuffle over a mine and the resulting strike in the 1920's. So if you decide to visit, don't ask a miner for some pie. You might wind up getting an earwax removal by pickaxe.
Most of the Brits living in Wigan, even a proud Wiganer like Phil admits he is, just can't decide how to pronounce the name of their own town and often wage phonetic battle over whether it is "Wig-AN" or "Wig-UN". Some will even pretend they are from Arkansas by saying 'wuz' instead of 'was'. For example, "I wuz gonna ram thisyer pickaxe in yer ear till ya gimme ah piece ah pie."
An illustrator of crazy-awesome talent, he has a hard-wired love of anything fantasy, horror (monsters, mummies, werewolves and other beings capable of making the unwary wet & soil themselves). His favoured (Hey Phil, for the last time, drop the British 'u', step away from the keyboard, and no one gets hurt) art style, dark and haunted, makes him the perfect artist to bring
Charlie Parker & The World of WASGADs to life.
DISCLAIMER:
Hello Everyone! This is Phil Gormley. I DID NOT approve the preceding message... at least in its current form. Our writer, Heath, is from Arkansas, which, as I understand it, exists in a universe very different from normal reality. I constructed a masterpiece artist bio and sent it to my fruit loop – ahhh, Author – friend. What you see above is his twisted concoction.