ANTÔNIO DELÉO-STUBBE

Born in the late 1900s in San Juan, this smooth Willem Dafoe-lookin’ sumbitch has been drawing and cartooning since probably before he could even talk, a skill he has kept to this day, not so much out of choice, but because he truly isnt good at anything else (seriously, ask all his short-lived restaurant bosses). He has been a Disney World Park employee, a bartender, a waiter, a restaurant host, a TV show host of a short-lived show from a very obscure TV channel only seen in Santo Domingo for three months, a flower deliverer for funerals, a for-hire ordained Minister of the Universal Life Church, an actor for local and US TV, Movies and Voiceover work, a hotel front desk agent, a motel security guard, and a free-lance beauty school masseuse. He is currently in works to become an adult dancer for blind and deaf women, prefferably those with both conditions because at this point, wth right? That last sentence might not be entirely true, but all the ones before it are.

But there were In-Between moments too! Like when he graduated from The Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA in Drawing and Illustration, or when he worked as a freelance graphic designer for projects involving both ad agencies and private clients, as well as doing book illustrations for published authors, or when he’s building and designing art toys for all the good little Whos in WhoVille (more commonly known by scientists as “People”), or when he’s helping beginners create paintings in his current part-time job at a Sip-and-Paint Studio, or when he’s training to become a profession dancer for blind and ok thats enough of that one. When he’s not doing any of this you can catch him as a traveling musician playing harmonica and singing for different genre bands across the Metro Area and surrounding bars, or raiding another Starbucks with his furry baby and partner in crime, Gigi. Gigi is his pet tiger. Sure she may look like a Shitzu-Bijon Frisée mix that doesnt know how to bite or attack anything to save her life, but dont let that fool you- she’s “A Lean-Mean Lickin’ Machine”. Which is, coincidentally, the title of my Memoirs some day.

Cheers!