Born, raised, and currently residing in the Southwest Chicago area, Darren Alejos subsists on a diet of drawing, art, design, Apple type products, comic books and graphic novels, Nintendo Wii and DS, animation and anime, that wacky internet, (almost) all kinds of music, and bubble tea.

Some of his favorite things currently include Eisley, Blankets by Craig Thompson, Mario Kart Wii, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, The Food Network, Denison Witmer, Fables by Bill Willingham, Owly by Andy Runton, Spirited Away, Fruits Basket, The Uncanny X-Men, Mean Girls, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Lost, The Simpsons, Brian K. Vaughn, Joss Whedon, As Tall As Lions, and blue pens.

Please visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/violintide for more of his art and goodies.

And now some quotes he enjoys for one reason or another:

"Not knowing everything is all that makes it okay, sometimes." -Neil Gaiman via Delirium

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." -Theodore Roosevelt