Born in 1955 in Oakland, CA and currently residing in Berkeley, CA. Graduated from Mills College with an MFA in painting. Richard Sala writes, draws, and animates along a gothic theme.

Comic and magazine credits:

Buzz
Drawn and Quarterly
Escape
Evil Eye
Night Drive
Raw
Rip Off Comix
The Chuckling Whatsit, appearing in Zero Zero
The Ghastly Ones
Thirteen O'Clock
Twist

Animation credits:

Bad Day on the Midway, available on CD-ROM.
Freak Show, available on CD-ROM.
Invisible Hands, with Charles Burns, appearing on MTV's Liquid Television.

His illustrations have also appeared in Esquire, Newsweek, Playboy, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and The Village Voice.