Eli is an award-winning artist and illustrator with more than 25 years of experience in the creative industry, including working as a designer at the American Museum of Natural History, being in charge of all retouching and post-production at SPIN Magazine, and more. In addition to that he is a tenured Associate Professor in the Communication Design Department at City Tech (CUNY) in Brooklyn, where he has taught for the past 14 years. His illustration work has been selected for the American Illustration annual multiple times and his first full-length graphic novel will hit shelves in October 2024.