Slampyak is an award-winning professional illustrator with more than 20 years of experience writing and drawing comic books, comic strips, storyboards, and illustrations of all types. He was the illustrator for the syndicated comic strip Little Orphan Annie for six years, and works on storyboards for movies and TV shows that have filmed in the area like Breaking Bad and Terminator: Salvation. Slampyak received his B.F.A. in graphic design and illustration from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University.