As his parents have told him many times, ever since he was able to walk Adam would make little drawings. These little drawings turned into cartoons and a huge interest in comics took over. He grew up reading MAD Magazine, Skip Williamson, R. Crumb and Bill Waterson to name a few. He and his buddies would always make silly comic books and sell them for a dollar at the comics store in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan. This hobby turned into an everyday activity.

While in college Adam started to admire more fine art. He looked to Schiele, Basquiat, Bosch, Steadman, Rauschenberg, Klee, Bacon and many of his fellow students and teachers for creative influence. He started to realize that he got more of a response when he didn’t actually try to conform to any stylistic boundaries. Rather, Adam just sits down on the floor in the middle of the night and starts gluing things together. Adam welcomes criticism of any kind and he wants his audience to either really disagree with his methods, or embrace its dirty real-ness.

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