Mr. Mike Cressy

I started out as an animator at various animation studios in L.A., Graphic designer for Los Angeles Theater Alliance, then became an illustrator, concept artist, designer, game artist and children's picture book author/illustrator.

Clients included L.A. Times, L.A. Weekly, Wells/Rich/Green, Foot/Cone/Belding, etc....

Moved studio into the larger Group West studio that included several famous illlustrators. Client list included: US Air Force, Camel Cigarettes, AARP, Readers Digest, Playboy magazine, L.F.P., Hughes Aircraft, KNBC, Disney Studios, Paramount Studios, CBS, Peterson Publishing, Grolier, Simon and Schuster, Transamerica, Grosset and Dunlap, etc....

Moved to Seattle in early 90s and started doing art for software companies that include: Manley and assoc., Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Filter Talent, Creative Assets, Art Source, Merwyn Creative, Sierra Entertainment, Big Top Games, X-box Kinect, Amazon Game Studio, JetPak Studio and The Pokemon Company.

Illustrated 10 children’s picture books, writing, illustrating several picture books in various stages of development and published 12 art books; "Carrots are Screaming" "Dragon My Butt" "Sketch31" “Monito Hermoso” , “The Book of Doodles Vol 1" “The Book of Doodles Vol 2” “The Book of Doodles Vol 3” "Super Alphabet" “New Century Abstracts Volumes 1 and 2”, "Seattle Reflections" (A photo tour of Seattle) and "Emerald Lens: Photos of the Pacific Northwest".

Since 2021 I have been publishing my graphic novel memoir "Enatai Beach" with each chapter as it's own book. In 2025, All chapters of my graphic novel Enatai Beach is available in one book.

Currently I am working on a novel that has drawings, called "The Distance of a Year"