Hal grew up in Burlington, Vermont, and Hudson Falls, New York, and majored in art at Skidmore College. He has been a freelance editorial illustrator for the past twenty-five years and works out of a studio over the garage attached to his home in East Montpelier, Vermont. You Can see more of his work at www.mayforth.com

Source: An Illustrated Life

The Tools Artists Use is an interesting blog that looks at the tools used by artists to create their work. It features interviews with the artists themselves.

I found the site on drawn.ca. Picture is from jenn_jenn

Update: Review of the English edition book is here:
https://www.parkablogs.com/content/book-review-monster-hunter-illustrat…

Paul grew up jut outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, majoring in drawing. He now lives in San Francisco, where he is an artist and writer. He publishes a weekly piece in the San Francisco Chronicle called "All Over Coffee," and primarily makes his living from the sale of the original pieces, which he shows two to five times a year in galleries, museums, restaurants and cafes.

Seems like GRAFUCK Volume 4 art book will be having an art exhibition at Nucleus. Check out more information at gallerynucleus.com.

Other interesting upcoming events I found on the site includes Graphic Narrative Course with Kazu Kibuishi and another exhibition for the book Ancient Book of Sex & Science

Kazu Kibuishi is the artist who puts together the Flight comics anthology, online Copper comics, and other comic books. You can check out his work at boltcity.com.

Ancient Book of Sex & Science is put together by Don Shank, Lou Romano, Nate Wragg and Scott Morse. I know some of them are Pixar artists.