James Cherry

James Edgar Cherry III writes both fiction and non-fiction. His non-fiction works include "Loco For Lizards," the chapter "1960s to The Present Day," in the September 2015 release, "King of the Kustomizers: The Art of George Barris," and the soon to come book "Autofutura," an examination of mid-20th Century attempts to imagine the car of the future. He's written for TV pitches, newspapers, magazines and websites.

Cherry served as a senior editor at Citysearch.com and editor-in-chief at AZInsider.com.

Two of his novels are currently listed on Amazon, "2048: A Diary," a sometimes humorous tale of a future Londoner's tortured path to rock 'n roll stardom, and "Coronado," a week in the lives of six characters struggling towards redemption in Phoenix, Arizona's underground during the early 1990s.

Cherry worked as an illustrator in Manhattan where his futuristic paintings were commissioned by: GQ magazine, Heavy Metal magazine, Rolling Stone, New York Times, HBO, NBC, Arista records, Columbia records, Warner Bros., Atlantic, Business Week, and Seventeen magazines, along with animations for MTV and USA Networks, book covers for St. Martin's Press and Harper & Row, bus shelters and a Sunset Strip billboard for Lois Jeans. His work was featured in Grafis, Art Direction, Zoom, and B.A.T. (France), in the books: "Outstanding American Illustrators 2," "Vintage Tee Shirts," "Album Cover Album 2," "Fame 2," and was included in the Society of Illustrators' show The New Illustration. Cherry's design for Yello's "Claro Que Si" album has appeared in several published collections of album cover art, including the 2014 book "Rock Covers," published by Taschen.

Cherry met with Andy Warhol while designing the only tee shirt personally approved by Warhol for a show of his work.

"Transitioning from graphic artist to writer has proven to be a creative blast."

"My coolest experience as a writer was trading signed books with Ray Bradbury."