Tareq Mirza has been creating since his parents bought him his first lego set at the age of three.  For hours each day throughout his childhood he would build whatever came to his mind and create a story to go with it.  Lego was eventually replaced by a love of comic books and a desire to create his own characters and content.  He received his BFA from George Mason University in studio art and computer graphics and went on to work in the  visual effects industry. After several years in Los Angeles working on television visual effects and animation, Tareq relocated to the San Francisco bay area to work at Industrial Light & Magic on Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. His other credits include Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolutions, Pirates of the Caribbean and Van Helsing.  In recent years Tareq has turned his attention back to his original passion of drawing and writing.  Currently he attends the San Francisco Writers Workshop and has his first short story published in the anthology, SNAPSHOTS: This Afghan-American Life.  He is also working on his first graphic novel, Afsana, which he is both writing and drawing. Tareq is currently teaching at the Academy of Art University in the Visual Effects and Animation department.
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