Michael T. Gilbert was born on May 7, 1951 and attended the State University of New York. He graduated from SUNY at New Paltz in 1973, and had his first comic stories printed that same year (in his self-published underground, New Paltz Comix.) He began drawing for several Star Reach and Kitchen Sink titles; a mix of underground comix (Slow Death, Bizarre Sex, American Splendor by Harvey Pekar) and ground-level comics such as Star*Reach and Quack!. He also did script and artwork on Aardvark's Strange Brew, Tiny Terror Tales and Wraith (a parody of the famous Will Eisner character The Spirit.

He worked on the celebrated Elric series with P. Craig Russell, and is best known as the creator of Mr. Monster, which has been published by Pacific Comics, Eclipse Comics and Dark Horse Comics since 1984. He has also worked on Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor, Heavy Metal, Legends of the Dark Knight, Marvel Double-Shot (featuring Dr. Strange) and in 2000 wrote and illustrated a Superman graphic novel, Mann & Superman. In recent years he has written or drawn characters as diverse as Superman, Batman, Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse. He has been a scriptwriter for Disney comics since 1990, as has his wife Janet Gilbert. He has written and drawn Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, which reflects, in a very creative way, on sixty years of Batman adventures.

Comics work includes:

• A1 (Atomeka Press)
• Airboy (Eclipse Comics)
• Airboy/Mr. Monster Special (Eclipse Comics)
• Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (DC Comics)
• Blast! (John Brown Publishing)
• Dark Horse Presents (Dark Horse Comics)
• Doc Stearn... Mr. Monster (Eclipse Comics)
• Elric (Pacific Comics)
• Imagine (Star*Reach)
• Quack (Star*Reach)
• Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Gladstone)

Interviews

• Douresseau, LJ (2004). Interview with Michael T. Gilbert