Craig Cummings:  

Life So I graduated and got sent to Oklahoma for their prestigious art program but failed every class because I couldn't function away from California. Well, every class but English, which allowed me to spit out my woes to a cathartic degree and opened my eyes to the therapeutic joy of writing. So I came back to Cali and got my AA from Cypress and then learned massive skills at CSULB but the school was so impacted I transferred to CSUF and graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design. All was not well, however, because I was plunged into the digitally dominated graphics world and the meager computer classes I took at school didn't really prepare me enough to land a graphics job in the outside world. Actually, I should have applied myself more but I was intimidated by the computer for some stupid reason. Anyway I was all bummed out and my head was spinning and I was too sick of school to go back and I remembered my CSULB painting teacher telling me to bail on the Graphics and go with Fine Art and crap like that. I continued doing art for underground punk and metal bands like Hirax, DRI, Metallica, etc., and decided to pursue fiction writing because I had, ironically, began reading books for the first time in my life towards the end of my college career, none of which being school related (I faked all my book reports throughout my entire school career, including the grueling "Book-a-Week" b.s. in Ms. Nilsen's 6th grade Reading class). I digested the original tales of Dracula, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, the weird works of Poe, everything by H.P. Lovecraft, only the classics. I regurgitated a story called "Grandma" and an illustration in accompaniment and both were accepted and published in 1994. Pretty stoked, but that's not going to pay the bills, so I decided to go full time "temporarily" a...Expand for more