Bill Krupinski started drawing when he first crawled onto a roll of shelf paper with a crayon clutched in his sticky little hand. He hasn’t stopped since. Claiming his ideas come from “living in my head while going out of my mind”, he draws from a deep inner wellspring clarified by his experience as a self-made artist.

Early on, Bill hustled his own gigs drawing posters for rock bands and doing illustration, cartoons and ads for the alternative press. Plenty of ink and many tears were spilled in the screen-printing industry. Later, he learned the arcane secrets of the pre-computer sign trade, running his own sign shop, “The Sign Wizard”, for 20 years.

After a near fatal carbon monoxide poisoning, Bill was advised to depart the sign biz—for good! Since then, he has taken to expressing his interest in experimenting with various media and themes, featuring his lifelong joy using bright colors and often whimsical takes on everything from aliens to koi fish and “Visionary art”.

Prolific and thoughtful artist, concerned citizen, “The People’s Cartoonist” and even fun musician are all terms that can apply to Wm. J. Krupinski, the diligent, forward-thinking creative juggernaut whose friends simply call him Bill.