Ed Mironiuk entered our world on Dec 11th, 1969 in Buffalo, NY.

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

enough, as they never had another. He began drawing in 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 out of Central New York and went straight

to his muse – NYC’s East Village. He drank his way through 4 years at Parson's School of

Design and managed to come away with a BFA, despite his predilection for tequila. 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. It was during this time that Ed met Kristin Tercek,

the only woman who could kick the tequila bottle out of his hand so he could use it to craft his

art. They quickly married and started Cha-Pow!, an animation ink and paint company that is

still thriving and well known for its work on MTV, Nickelodeon, and Saturday Night Live. Since

then, they’ve expanded their empire into custom made dolls and 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 boondocks of Jersey, where he lives with his loving wife and chihuahuas.

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

Magazine, The Globe, Los Angeles Times, 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