Aaron Gombar (born on
February 281982, in
Wheat Ridge, is an American cartoonist and
modern pop artist.
Aaron Gombar has spent most of his life in
Boulder,
Colorado. A graduate of
Quest Academy in Boulder, he attended the
University of Colorado at
Boulder in 2000. He also spent two years as a student at the
San Francisco Art Institute in
2001–2002. He currently resides in
Orlando,
Florida.
He is best known as the creator of the comic strip
NORMAN. He began drawing
NORMAN in 1994, when he was a 5th grader at Kohl Elementary School
in
Broomfield, Colorado. NORMAN has been
published in many newspapers and magazines nationwide, including
REACT
magazine (a PARADE magazine publication),
The Mighty Sun Comix,
The Broomfield Enterprise,
and the
Boulder Daily Camera.
A couple
years ago, Null Skateboard Company
NULL SKATEBOARDSĀ©
released skateboard decks that were designed by Aaron himself, and
has done a few more since then. He has also designed t-shirts,
hats, and skateboard wheels featuring his cartoon characters.
In
2007 Aaron was featured in the first issue of VOLCOM's "Volcomics."
He has had his fine art exhibited in gallery shows including,
"A Cute Overdose" in Denver, CO in 2001, "Follow The Leader" in
Orlando, FL in 2005, and most recently in "Versus The World" in
Orlando in 2007.
He is scheduled to appear in "Volcomics" issue
2, due out later this year(2008) and is also preparing for his next
solo gallery show, titled, "Shock and Aww" which is scheduled to
open in Tokyo, Japan in 2008.
AARON GOMBAR is also working on an
autobiographical novel, titled, "The Life of Leisure" which is
scheduled for release in fall of 2008.