Valeri gorbachev biography books

As long as I can remember my self I liked to draw. When I was 14 years old I had to choose my future occupation. My father wanted me to study math but I wanted to draw so I enrolled in to specialized art school.

When I have graduated it I was admitted into Ukraine art academy.

Valeri gorbachev biography books

Even before I have graduated from the academy I have started to work as freelancer for the cartoon magazine name “Perets” (Chili Pepper). After graduation I went to work as cartoonist for “Chili Pepper” full time. In 1979 I unsuccessfully tried to leave USSR and immigrate to US.

As the result of it I was fired from “Chili Pepper” and was unable to find work as artist for long time as all jobs in USSR were controlled by government. So I spend a few years just doing oil paintings in my studio. And slow as time has passed by I realized that I did not wont to go back to do cartoons any more and what I really wanted was to write and to draw children books.

I end up making over 40 published books in USSR before I fi