ABOUT

Cliff Galbraith is a man of many talents but has chosen to waste them making comics and other silly images.

At the tender age of 19, he started one of the first screen printing shops in the NYC metro area.  In 1986, he created Shopasaurus and Partyasaurus, followed by hundreds of other Saurus characters that became a worldwide licensing phenomenon.  In 1996, Cliff launched Crucial Comics and the first issue of Rat Bastard, which was optioned by Ron Howard’s Imagine Television in 1999 for a groundbreaking TV series that never aired. In 2004, he returned from Los Angeles to New Jersey to once again take the reigns of his T-shirt company. After three successful years, he fell ill with Lyme disease and had to liquidate the company. After several years of treatment, he launched a small comic event in Asbury Park in a punk rock club. The Asbury Park Comicon grew into a large show at the legendary Asbury Park Convention Hall. It eventually moved to the event to the Meadowlands Exposition Center, where it was rebranded as the East Coast Comicon.  ECC became a wildly successful annual event until it was forced to cancel at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. During the lockdown, Cliff wrote his first novel — a 567-page sci-fi space opera entitled Jagged Worlds -- to be released in 2025.