Creator of Trilomonk and Treebird for the Neo-Kaiju capsule series, Kathy Staico-Schorr has long been a part of the underground art world. Kathy graduated the Philadelphia College of Art. She moved to New York City in 1977, where she found work as a commercial illustrator for clients such as Electric Company Magazine and Fortune Magazine. She also worked for various publishers doing book covers, greeting card designs, album art and product and advertising illustration. In 1986, she moved to rural Connecticut to focus on her own painting and she began showing alongside artists such as Mark Mothersbaugh and Gary Panter in galleries throughout the world. She moved to LA in 1999 and has since been featured on the cover of Juxtapoz magazine and as a house artist at the Merry Karnowsky Gallery in LA. She is currently working on a book of her own paintings.