San Francisco based illustrator Dan Cooney has been working professionally for over 10 years now. Cooney has done all aspects of producing comic books, sketch cards, and graphic novels -- writing, penciling, inking, coloring, lettering, and book design, all the way through pre-press for publication. A lifelong fan and prolific collector of comics, Cooney graduated with a BFA from New York's School of Visual Arts in 1998, where he studied under famed artists Walt Simonson, Klaus Janson, and Gene Colan. Cooney's client list includes illustration/graphic design work for Rolling Stone, Sony, Tower Records, WAMU, Marvel Trading Cards (Upperdeck), Aliens vs. Predator 2 (Inkworks), Heroes (Topps)and Image Comics, along with writing and illustrating his own stylish action comic thriller, Valentine, under the Red Eye Press imprint.