Born in 1962, Greg Capullo is a self-taught artist who first went into commercial advertising. His first comic work, Gore Shriek, was published by a local comic shop in Albany, New York. Shortly thereafter, Capullo started at Marvel and worked on What if?, Quasar and X-Force. After leaving Marvel, Capullo began to pencil Spawn at issue #26, where he has been since. Capullo has also worked on various other projects including the award-winning Korn CD jacket for Follow the Leader and his own successful three-issue mini-series, The Creech, which he wrote and pencilled.