Tony Breeden is an artist and author from from West Virginia, home of Mother's Day, the Mothman, the Flatwoods Monster and Gray Barker, the fellow who likely invented the Men in Black. He credits his late aunt Sharon for giving him the writing bug; she helped him make his very first book about dinosaurs, loving illustrated in crayon. His spirit animal is Ray Harryhausen, whose work gave him a love for the strange and wonderful worlds of fantasy and science fiction.