Brad Teare

Who is Brad Teare?

Brad Teare is a fine artist, illustrator and comics writer/artist based in Utah.

Teare was educated at University of Idaho and Utah State University. He subsequently moved to New York City where he freelanced for the New York Times.

He is a landscape painter and noted woodcut artist. In 2006 his woodblock print "Rock Moss" won the Deseret Morning News $2,500 Purchase Award.

He has done book covers for James Michener and Anne Tyler. In 1992 he created a comic called "Cypher", later published as a book. A spin-off comic, "The Subterranean" has subsequently been created and released online. Teare currently works illustrating "The Friend,", children's magazine of the LDS Church.

He is married to the noted American trompe l'oeil artist Debra Teare.