Michael Terry Gilbert was born May 7th 1951, and lived in NY until 1975. He graduated from SUNY at New Paltz in 1973, and had his first comic stories printed that same year (in his self-published underground, New Paltz Comix.) He began his career in the mid 1970s drawing for several Star Reach and Kitchen Sink titles; a mix of underground comix (Slow Death, Bizarre Sex, American Splendor) and ground-level comics (Star*Reach, Quack!). He also did script and artwork on Aardvark's 'Strange Brew', 'Tiny Terror Tales' and 'Wraith'. In the mid-eighties he was a speaker at the Starwood Festival, run by the Association for Consciousness Exploration, and through them was the first professional comic-book artist to offer classes to the Neo-Pagan community. (He also contributed to their magazine, Changeling Times.)
He worked on the celebrated Elric series with P. Craig Russell, and is the creator of the 'Mr. Monster', which has been published by Pacific Comics, Eclipse and Dark Horse since 1984. He has also worked on 'Rat Hater', 'Mr. V.', 'Wacky Squirrel' and Fantagraphics' Critters and Prime Cuts. In recent years he's written or drawn characters as diverse as Superman, Batman, Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse; he's been a scriptwriter for Disney comics since 1990, just like his wife Janet Gilbert. He has written and drawn 'Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight', which reflects, in a very creative way, on sixty years of Batman adventures.