Paul Kirchner  Paul Kirchner (born January 29, 1952) is an American writer and illustrator who has worked in diverse areas, from comic strips and toy design to advertising and editorial art. Paul Kirchner was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He attended Cooper Union School of Art but left in his third year, when, with the help of Larry Hama and Neal Adams, he began to get work in the comic book industry. He penciled stories for DC’s horror line and assisted on "Little Orphan Annie" for Tex Blaisdell, who took over the strip after the death of Harold Gray. In December 1973, Ralph Reese introduced Kirchner to Wally Wood, for whom he worked as assistant for several years. In the mid-1970s, Kirchner wrote and illustrated the surrealistic comic strip "Dope Rider" for "High Times". For "Heavy Metal" he did an equally surrealistic monthly strip, "the bus" (1979–85). These strips were collected in a book published by Ballantine in 1987. A new edition has been released in 2012 by French publisher Tanibis. Paul Kirchner also wrote and illustrated occasional short features for "Heavy Metal" and "Epic Illustrated". Most of them were collected in the book "Realms" (Catalan Communications, 1987). In 1981, through his brother Thomas Kirchner, a Zen Buddhist monk, Paul Kirchner met the Zen practitioner and author Janwillem van de Wetering. Together they produced a graphic detective novel, "Murder by Remote Control" (Ballantine, 1986). In 1983–84, Kirchner did the licensing art and in-pack comic books for the Robo Force robot toy line from CBS Toys. From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, he wrote and drew comics features for "He-Man", "GoBots", "ThunderCats", "G.I. Joe" and "Power Rangers" magazines, published by Telepictures (later Welsh Publications). He illustrated a surreal cartoon for "VQ Magazine" and the long-running "Jack B. Quick" feature in "Sports Illustrated for Kids". Paul Kirchner stopped doing comics from the mid-90s to early 2010s. Between 2013 and 2015 he drew new episodes of "the bus" which have been published in various magazines in US and in Europe. He also relaunched "Dope Rider" for "High Times". He is currently doing a comic strip, "Hieronymus & Bosch", which is featured in the comics section of the Adult Swim website.