Born: September 11, 1984 (North American Continent, Earth)
Died: June 27, 2056 (Time Travel Accident, Low Earth Orbit)
    
    Tommy McLaughlin is an image maker from Denver, CO.  He studied printmaking at the Metropolitan State University of Denver and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in December 2016.  His practice consists mostly of printmaking and painting, with an emphasis on the hand-drawn image and pre-digital techniques.  Tommy began drawing and writing while still a small child, as an attempt to avoid speaking and vocalizing at all costs.  Early exposure to images of Renaissance paintings and comic books gave Tommy an obsessive appreciation for images, and a sense of bewilderment that others seemed to take them for granted.  In 2005, Tommy had a chance encounter with a doppelganger that instigated a psychic arms race to see who could create the most powerful weaponized images.  The original cartoons for the resulting paintings were subsequently destroyed, lest they fall into the wrong hands.  The five paintings were scattered around the globe, and scholars believe that at least two are cursed and one is haunted.