Ed Mironiuk entered our world on Dec 11th.

His singular and strange nature quickly convinced his parents that one child would be

enough, as they never had another. He began drawing as soon as his tender fingers

could grip a pencil and put it to paper. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Frazetta, sci fi and comics

consumed his time and encouraged his fetid imagination. By the age of 12 he discovered

Alberto Vargas through an inherited collection of musty Playboys, perhaps the only pre-

pubescent to truly appreciate pornography on an esoteric level. This early admiration of

the female form would serve as the foundation of his later artwork. While normal kids

were drawing hotrods and wondering how to get into the girl next door’s pants, Ed was

memorializing what was actually IN the girl door’s pants through detailed illustrations.

After a decent run in high school, Ed hightailed it  and went straight to his

muse – NYC’s East Village. After 4 years at Parson's School of Design he came

away with a BFA. While Ed toiled away on animation jobs, he fed his head a steady diet of black metal,

Russ Meyer films, HP Lovecraft, latex fashion, ink and piercings of all natures and the absolute

vilest sectors of Japanese deviancies. These subcultures stewed in his brain and eventually merged

with his love of pinups, forming the basis of his unique brand of art; a hybrid of pop trash and

fetish culture kissed by Dr. Moreau himself. In 1993 he was anointed reigning illustrator for

Tattoo Magazine, a role he still kicks ass at. Ed’s illustration work has

been featured in everything from The LA Times to Equus Eroticus and used for bands as diverse

as The Genitorturers and SPiT LiKE THiS. Ed throws all this work into the world from his cocoon

in the boonies, where he lives with his loving wife and chihuahua.

PARTIAL PUBLISHING LIST:  Paisano Publications, Tattoo Magazine, Tattoo Savage, Los Angeles

Magazine, The Globe, Los Angeles Times, Miami New Times, LA Bizarro, Easyriders,

LA Weekly, VQ, Tattoo Flash, A Magazine, Tattoo Insider, Tabu, Tattoo Revue, Inked, Secret,

Frontiers Newsmagazine, SQP, Apocalipstick,Clinic, Lollipop, SPiT LiKE THiS, Bizarro Press,

Delerium Publications, LA Bizarro,Equus Eroticus, Cartattoos, Blue Blood, Marquis, Chaos Comics,

Eros Ezine, Flaunting It, Altporn, Fleshbot, 3xl, Devolution Magazine, Dark's Art Parlour,

Senze Mission Control, Draculina Publishing, Drawing Blood, Cthulhu Sex, Fringeware Review,

World of Fandom, Lobotomy, The Genitorturers