Eli Neugeboren is an award-winning artist, illustrator, writer, and professor living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He is an Associate Professor, with tenure, at City Tech (CUNY), where he's been teaching in the Communication Design Department since 2010. His work has been included in both the American Illustration and American Photography annuals. He has been drawing since he could hold a crayon and does his best to draw every single day. His work is primarily figurative and humanist, with an interest and focus on storytelling. Storytelling both in single editorial images that imply a greater narrative, and also sequential work. 

"Whatever Happened to Frankie King", Eli's first full-length graphic novel, will be out in November 2024 from Graphic Mundi, an imprint of Penn State University Press. Researched and written by his father, Jay Neugeboren, this is the story of a Brooklyn basketball phenom who was supposed to play college ball at the University of North Carolina, but never did, Instead he wrote over 40 so-called cat msyteries under female pseudonym, worked as an enforcer for the Gambino crime family, lost all his teeth, and more. (Link when pre-order is available.)

Past projects include #drawingthenews, Sharkary vs Tsunami Crab Volume III, The Long Shadows, and The ABC's of Ultimate.In his career he has worked as an illustrator at a product development company creating licensed goods, a designer in the exhibition department at the American Museum of Natural History, and a digital retoucher for international ad campaigns for clients such as Maybelline and Redken, along with being the in-house retoucher for SPIN Magazine for nearly four years.