John Clarke graduated from the Art Institute of Boston in 1991 with a degree in Illustration and has worked with clients such as Scholastic, IBM, the ASPCA and many others.

His influences range from Hieronymus Bosch to Hanna Barbera.

In 2006 he received the Virginia Press Association Award for Editorial Illustration.

He is also an avid painter and his work has been exhibited and sold in galleries in Massachusetts and Connecticut and hangs in private collections from Australia to Japan (the long way)