Chris Giarrusso  Chris Giarrusso is a graphic novel author/illustrator best known for the all-ages series "G-Man" at Image Comics and Andrews McMeel Publishing and "Mini Marvels" at Marvel Comics. Chris Giarrusso is a native of Upstate New York, and comes from an artistic family. His mother actively pursued arts and crafts as a pastime, his father enjoys photography, his brother Matt is a musician, and his older brother Dave, like Giarrusso himself, enjoys drawing. Giarrusso looked up to Dave in particular, and names him as the primary creative influence on his art style and career. As a child, Giarrusso, an avid fan of Marvel Comics, would go to a comics shop every weekend with his mother, although his father was not as pleased with his son's choice of reading material. Giarrusso also enjoyed drawing, but did so intermittently, because he lacked confidence in his abilities, often becoming frustrated with his work and destroying his drawings. He was also influenced the newspaper strips he and his brother read, most notably Charles Schultz's "Peanuts". Others included "Garfield", "B.C.", "For Better or For Worse", "Heathcliff", "Marmaduke", "Dennis the Menace" and "Beetle Bailey". His first comic book was "Transformers", which he began reading when he was 9 or 10 years old. Giarrusso attended Binghamton University. During Giarrusso's last summer of college at Binghamton University, he worked an internship at Marvel Comics, performing tasks such as making photocopies and addressing envelopes. This led to a position in the company's production department, where he worked on scanning art and assembling and formatting files for print. Giarrusso created the all-ages "Mini Marvels" in 1999 for Marvel Comics, which star child-sized versions of notable Marvel characters. "Mini Marvels" eventually became a regular feature of Bullpen Bulletins pages seen in nearly every Marvel book. The first "Mini Marvels" digest, "Mini Marvels: Rock, Paper Scissors", was released in July 2008, and after selling out, required a second printing. Giarrusso is also known for writing and illustrating "G-Man", an all-ages series by Image Comics featuring a young superhero who gains the powers of super strength, super endurance, and flight when he wears a magic cape.