Vic was born and raised in South-Central Pennsylvania in a small village near the city of Altoona. Being creative all his life, he grew up always interested in art. As a child, he was constantly drawing various characters and cutting them out and putting them in a shoebox to play with later. He created a comic strip while he was still in grade school and received his first 'commission' from his grandfather, creating a landscape watercolor of Dunning Mountain in Pennsylvania. He started doing portraits in pastel and graphite while in high school of his friends and...more