Bill Carman was born on the floor of a house in Seoul, Korea. He was 11 pounds 14 ounces and had a banana-shaped head. He was the second-fastest kid in Monta Loma Elementary School in Mountain View, California, and had the second-longest standing broad jump in Kennedy Junior High School. In high school, Bill took an art class taught by a football coach who couldn’t draw, played in a band, and fished. He received a BFA in Visual Communications/Illustration and an MFA in Painting from Brigham Young University, taught in and chaired the Department of Art at Cardinal Stritch University, and now teaches at Boise State University. And he fishes.

Bill’s clients include Random House, LucasArts Entertainment, Group One, Quality Inn Hotels,Avid Publications, Atari, SSI, TSR Inc., SETI Institute, Boise Weekly, the Susan G. Komen Foundation, the Arthritis Foundation, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Timpanogos Singer Songwriter Alliance, Boise Contemporary Theater, Opera Idaho, and the Idaho Historical Society. His work has also been seen in the Society of Illustrators New York annuals, where it received a gold medal; American Illustration; RSVP; and the Spectrum annuals. Bill was awarded bronze, silver and gold medals from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

He has a family. His mother was a Korean smuggler, his father a top secret government agent, his wife is a P.I., and he always feels like he’s being followed. He hikes, he reads, he fishes.