Ted Naifeh has been working in comics and related fields since 1990. He has drawn for most of the big companies, such as Dark Horse, DC/Vertigo and Marvel/Epic. He worked on several self-published and unpublished projects before he got a larger readership with 'Gloomcookie' in 1998. His first work was for Innovation Comics, drawing an adaptation of the sci-fi novel 'Shadow of the Torturer'.