Ron Zalme

Ron Zalme was born in The Netherlands, but emigrated to the United States as a toddler. He began his professional career as an assistant production manager for Marvel from 1978 to 1985 and was soon freelancing for many other major clients in various markets while maintaining his staff position with Marvel. Apart from production work like spot illustrations, promo art and lettering, he provided comic stories for Marvel's humor magazine Crazy. He then went entirely freelance to illustrate in the publishing, advertising, and merchandising markets. Since 2002 he has been the illustrator of the long-running 'Timbertoes' feature in Highlights for Children magazine.