Josiah Leighton has a degree in painting and a certification in secondary English. His illustrations have been published in the Abercrombie & Fitch Quarterly. After spending time in New Haven, New York, New Orleans and Neo-Tokyo, he currently resides in the hinterlands of Northern Maine with his fiancée, his dog and her two crippled cats. He writes an educational blog concerning the creation of comics at consequentialart.wordpress.com.