Jay Sage

Jay M. Sage was born in Socorro New Mexico on the twenty-fourth day of May in the year 1988. As a child, he would stare at the back of cereal boxes and recreate what he saw. His mother, Melissa, recalls him being able to capture the pirate ships and other various backgrounds in complete and perfect detail by the age of five, but laughs as she tells this story because he could never draw the people and would always have her draw them for him. The humor in this is that she can barely draw a stick figure; however, Jay says that at the time, he was envious of her mad skills. Jay’s father left him when he was very small and his mother struggled with alcoholism and a drug addiction, causing his home life to be stressful and chaotic. This is what he believes drove him to strive harder with his art. He worked hard to make something of himself and DO something with his art to better take care of his parents, but mostly, to never BE them.