Cheyenne was born and raised in Hawaii, in the small North Shore community of Hale’iwa. Bitten by the art-bug at a young age, he began working summers at the town’s local newspaper North Shore News as a paste-up artist. It was there that his first cartoons were published in a Gary Larson-inspired strip called “The Wright Angle”.

Cheyenne went on to do a 2-year stint as a late night Radio DJ and minor celebrity working for the immensely popular experimental FM station “RADIO FREE HAWAII”, as well as doing some stage theater before realizing that–while he possessed the soul of Hamlet — he reflected the mien of Biker No. 3. Cheyenne put acting on an indefinite hiatus, and headed for the mainland to try his hand at freelance art.

Landing in Seattle on the Ides of March in 1992, Cheyenne set about making a name for himself. He attempted (unsuccessfully) to get in on this new Magic:The Gathering thing, but did eventually find work as an art assistant to the premiere freelance artists Phil & Kaja Foglio.

Cheyenne Wright now provides the beautiful colors for “Girl Genius”, the popular graphic textbooks on the life of Agatha Heterodyne, Which won the Hugo Award for “Best Graphic Story 2008″ and has been nominated in that same category again this year, He also is the new colorist for Buck Godot: Zap gun for hire - and spends his evenings as a freelance artist for such companies as Pinnacle Entertainment –creators/publishers of Deadlands and Savage Worlds, the award-winning Cheapass Games, Alton Brown, and the Star Trek Online MMO.

With the rise of podcasting Cheyenne has found an outlet for his old love of acting both as the voice of: “Othar Tryggvassen, Gentleman Adventurer!” for the Girl Genius radio plays. but also, as legend tells he lends his Buttery ManVoice to short stories for podcasts like Pesudopod, EscapePod, Podcastle, The Dreamers Thread, and the Drabblecast.

Recently he has begun to design his own line of “badges” for law enforcement agencies that never existed - the first one is a LoneStar-and-Gear shaped TESLA RANGERS badge.