"I was born with a pencil in my hand, drawing advanced stuff at an early age. I think because I grew up reading a lot of the books drawn by Al Williamson, Bernie Wrightson, and Frank Frazetta. Al, in particular, was a huge influence on me. I get compared to him a lot, which probably is the nicest thing anyone can do, really. Later in life, when I was a teen, I saw the art of Drew Struzan for the first time on an Alice Cooper album, and studied how he drew faces and such. Drew has been ahuge influence on me as well. So, I would say, Al Williamson and Drew were the biggest influnces on me as an artist, as both guys focused, when working on film related projects, on making the people they drew look exactly like the actors portraying them."

Gerry spent his first eight years between Phoenix, Arizona and Charleston, Illinois. His father took him to Fredericksburg, Virginia, where spent the rest of his childhood and adult life, before the army. An alumni of James Monroe High school, class of 1982, Gerry left school, and began honing his artistic skills. Thanks to his childhood friend Virginia Johnson, and her amazing husband Steven, Gerry's professional career as an illustrator and comic artist started back in 1986, working as staff artist for America's #1 sales and marketing magazine Personal Selling Power Magazine. At the age of just 22 he was developing motivational comic strips working with Selling Power's publishers Laura and Gerhardt Gschwandtner, as well as world renowned self help guru, Dr Wayne Dyer. Gerry recalls the strip, saying, "I remember the fist strip I did was of this guy honking his horn in traffic, when Dr Dyer's disembodied head magically appears above him, floating over the car, telling the guy that honking his horn won't make traffic move any quicker, it only serves to increase his and everyone else's stress. It was so funny drawing this magical floating Dr Dyer head." One of his strips Gerry drew was so popular, it was picked up by the AP Newswire, and carried in their internal newsletter.

His dreams of being an illustrator and comic artist were happening. He got his first professional comic gig in 1989. However, his dreams would take a back seat to his calling as a patriot, when he walked away from his art career and volunteered at the age of 26 to serve as an Army Combat Medic during the first Gulf war. "I served, and that's all I did. But, what I didn't get to do in the military, I have tried to make up for as a vet, by focusing on telling respectful stories about soldiers and vets. That is why I started Charlie Foxtrot Entertainment with combat vets like Dale Dye, John Del Vecchio, Ernesto Haibi and Doug Esposito. I am honored to have worked with those guys, and they know it."

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After the army, Gerry's career shifted again. Though he still did illustration here and there, as well as painting book covers, he really focused more on design and commercial art, working as staff artist and designer for several internet companies and ad agencies, and kept doing that type of work for nearly 20 years. However, even after he won several awards for his design work, his love for illustration began to overshadow the steady pay of a staff artist job. Then in 2009, thanks to