Below is my basic bio. But here's a little something about this site. Started in 2002, this site was a way for me to feel like I was getting work out into the world. For years I had made mini-comics and left them around, but I grew tired of that format, and, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do anymore. I knew I wanted to draw and write, but how that would manifest was undetermined. In a way, it still is, which is why I keep this site. It's been almost 6 years that I've been posting a weekly here, and in that time I've also done comic pieces and photo essays for book collections, spot drawings and illustrations for magazines, and shown original works 3-5 times a year. I've worked with many organizations, including 826 Valencia to make a Literary Map of San Francisco, and the National Parks Conservancy to do an iconic image of the Warming Hut and Golden Gate Bridge. I also created All Over Coffee, now in it's 4th year in the San Francisco Chronicle, now collected and published by City Lights books. And still, I wonder what I'm doing with words and pictures. I always come back to this site, though. I never think of not posting on it. The weeklies allow me to wander between styles and ideas. I can do gestural single panel cartoons, or cartoony comics. I can post figure drawings or weird art pieces. I believe that what ever next thing I make that goes on to have a life of its own, will probably have its beginnings on one of these weekly posts. This site is a sketchbook, of a sort. And a way for me to look back and see what I've been up to. -p 01 23 08 Here's the standard bio: Paul Madonna, born 1972, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, USA. In 11th grade I began attending Saturday pre-college courses in drawing at Carnegie Mellon University. I continued on at CMU to become a college freshman. In the winter of my senior year, I interned at MAD Magazine. MAD had never had an art intern before, so in lieu of pay, they offered me the title of "first art intern." I accepted. We arrived to work late, stayed late, drank wine in the office, and went to parties at the Society of Illustrators. After graduating in 1994 with a BFA, I moved to San Francisco and made mini-comics. I spent most of my time in cafes drawing and writing, and left my books everywhere for free. I didn't want to do anything else, refused to get a full time job, and was often broke. People send me e-mails and letters about my work, and in the spring of 2000, my future wife contacted me. A year later we were married. The charm of having met through such circumstances has followed us through our lives. In 2002 I began this site, posting a new cartoon each week. In 2004 the San Francisco Chronicle and SFGate.com picked up my strip All Over Coffee, which continues to run in the Sunday Datebook section, and in 2007 City Lights Books published the first collection of the strip. Other work of mine has appeared is various books and magazines and I consistently show prints and drawings. For more information on shows or publications, go to the events page. I still welcome correspondence from readers, so write to me if you have something to say. paul madonna