Noah Brown is a multidisciplinary artist, musician and writer based in Leeds, UK. He makes paintings, illustrations and comics, as well as having a varied background in other disciplines. He is/has variously been: a music/culture writer, a rapper (in the briefly notorious mid-00s act Yes Boss), a techno/house producer and DJ (as Ford Foster), a punk singer (in Normal Man and other bands), an event promoter, a noise musician/performance artist, and many other things he can’t quite remember.

Entirely self-taught, Noah drew obsessively throughout his childhood, initially wanting to be John Buscema, then Berni Wrightson, then as he entered his teens, Robert Crumb. He had his first professional illustration jobs in 1990 at age 16 and over the next three decades would make a variety of work , including small press comic strips, toy design/illustrations for a pet toy company, illustrations for a music video, fanzine work, record covers, gig posters and t-shirt designs, all the while trying to hold down crappy jobs and dealing with periods of unemployment. He is now a full-time working artist. He enjoys getting commissions, working to a brief, and the learning and discipline that entails, as left to his own devices he usually works wholly from imagination and very rarely uses reference.

His influences include Tanino Liberatore, Raymond Pettibon, Antonio Lopez, Simon Bisley, Egon Schiele, Bill Sienkewicz, expressionism, surrealism, Gary Panter, art nouveau, Ghanaian movie posters, Enki Bilal, 1st/2nd generation Dungeons & Dragons artists, Mark Beyer, Rory Hayes, Savage Pencil, the first 500 or so 2000ADs, Richard Corben, Jim Mahfood, Josh Bayer, Jim Burns, Lorenzo Mattotti, Zap comics, Weirdo and Raw. He enjoys working in a variety of different styles, using a variety of media, as his main goal is keeping himself inspired and not getting rusty or stuck doing the same thing over and over. His non-art influences include magick, anarchism, porno, pulp novels, exploitation cinema, skateboarding, bodybuilding, music, old computer games and cheap toys. Noah has combined ADHD and ASC (very late diagnosis), and is a trauma survivor.