Geoff Shaw was born and raised in Mt. Vernon, Iowa and received his Bachelors in fine arts from the University of New Mexico in 2007 and a Masters in Sequential Art from The Savannah College of Art and Design in 2011. During graduate school, he worked on several professional projects including- the Batman annual 2011 and Grim Fairy tales Hook' #5. After placing in the Walt Disney Imaginations' competition, he recieved an internship in Los Angeles. In Imagineering he worked on projects ranging from concept design to line art for Disney's mobile app comic "Habit Heroes", before leaving to persue work in comics. His prior works include pencil art for Pacific Rim- Tales from Year Zero, line art on the four issue mini-series 'Buzzkill' with writer Donny Cates.