Born and raised in chicago and now living in oakland. peabe started drawing at a young age due to his grandfathers influence. as he grew, the still life wasnt exciting to him and having drawing wars with friends is what led to the nonsense of today. His early inspirations were from riding the "el" as a youngling to and from school and noticing the awesome graffiti around him. Annoyed at how the other train riders were ignorant of the awesomeness around them, he began to observe everyone was pretty much in a "zombiotic" state. this led to the early sketches of his zombies. his characters are emotionless zombies surrounded by a beautiful world that he hopes they will eventually wake up to, and some do.

My work is about people that don't realize the cool things around them. My zombies are either completely oblivious to the colors around them or a just initially noticing them and in a sense "waking up." With the few that start to wake up, i try to show their emotions waking up through their gestures. Everyone still has empty eyes because they are not completely aware of what surrounds them, but with time hopefully that will change.