Through the entirety of life being an artist creating ideas one has seen how beautiful  and frightening this world could be born and raised in New York City during the high crime graffiti laden era of the 1970's, 80's and 90's. A decrepit period in the inner city. Art, music and cinema was an escape to go deep into the imagination projected visually and orally as a form of informative expression. The fascination of a person's excitement towards seeing and listening to the world's created drives the thrill of illustrating then writing stories. As a self thought student of art, literature is very important for research and reference and it has kept the ideas turning all  these years from reading GI Joe comics and Fangoria  magazines with it's fantasy, fiction and horror themes to National Geographic, Popular Science and soldier of fortune editorials. A writer of poetry at first has given the style a rhythm to tell a flowing story which Star Trek was an early influence of the interaction between characters and their perspective in a challenging  role. There is a purity in becoming consumed with one's own passion to create, it shows in the product. That is the objective to spawn generations of bold innovators. I am Andy "Solo" Estevez, a freelance illustrator and writer of horror, science and historical fiction.