uring the eighties and early nineties Mike Stengl worked as a cartoonist and illustrator for both local and national newspapers and magazines including: Easy Riders, Sonoma County’s The Paper, Comic Relief, Culture Concrete, Plazm Magazine, Emergency Horse and The Steelehead Special among others. Turning toward the human figure he joined Hobart Brown’s “stable of artists” in 1997 and has been an irregular contributor to Arts Alive and Arts Arcata over the years. Currently working on a series of abstract cityscapes inspired by a recent trip to Mexico Mike is also available for commissioned portraits.