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Biography

Romas Brandt Kukalis (also known simply as Romas; born in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian-American painter best known for his work as a cover artist for books of speculative fiction, including the Animorphs Chronicles. Kukalis also illustrated seven cards for the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game. Three were created under the name Romas Brandt Kukalis and five were created using only Romas for the Portal set.Kukalis was raised in Connecticut, and trained at Paier College of Art (from which he was graduated in 1978) in Hamden, Connecticut. He now lives in Keene, New Hampshire. He is married to Allison Barrows, a cartoonist, author, and advertising illustrator. They have a daughter and a son.Romas graduated with honors from Paier College of Art in New Haven, Connecticut. Directly after graduation, he went to work for many book and magazine publishers and advertising agencies in New York City. Romas has illustrated a variety of subjects for such diverse clients as TV Guide, Readers Digest, Red Herring, Omni, Marvel Comics, the D.C. Comics Batman Masters Series, Union Carbide, Seagrams, Hasbro, The Bradford Exchange, The Danbury Mint. Romas has been featured in Science Fiction Age and Advertising Age magazine and on the Central Connecticut State University Pioneers television series featured on Connecticut PBS. Some of Romas's best known sci-fi and fantasy covers include Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series, Anne McCaffrey's The Rowan series, and the wildly popular Chronicles specialty books related to Scholastic Books Animorphs series.He is currently working on SuperEgo, a graphic novel project with his wife, Allison Barrows. Returning to a childhood love of comics and superheroes and the freedom of schedule is the ultimate fantasy.