John D. Escu

John D. Escu is a Romanian-born tattoo artist and musician living in Germany. Raised in a military family, John was fascinated as a child with his parents’ stories regarding events occurring throughout Medieval Europe, WW1, WW2 and the Romanian Revolution of 1989. Where his father would focus on warfare and military conquests, his mother would terrify him and his sister with tales and legends of Romanian folklore. Vampires and Strigois rising from their graves, roaming the streets under the full moon, gave them both sleepless nights, as they both feared what could be lurking outside their windows. Fascinated with comic books, Saturday morning cartoons, and early ’90s anime, John began drawing and developing his own stories at an early age, creating characters, places, and events that later on could only be presented through the form of novels. When he is not writing, tattooing, recording music or drawing, John can be found mountain biking in the wilderness of Franconia in Germany.