James Burns is an illustrator, graphic designer, and animator who lives in Avondale Estates, Georgia. As a graphic designer for television, James has created 3D animations for clients such as CNN, TBS, and various television stations around the country.

In 2002, he was diagnosed with a detached retina, which threatened his eyesight. After recovering, and at age 45, he wrote and drew his first comic book, Detached, about the experience and the fear and doubts connected with it. Since then, James has been doing commercial illustration, as well as creating the weekly comic strip Grumbles, which has been running for the last four years in Atlanta's Sunday Paper. He was also included in the last two editions of the comic anthology Not My Small Diary and the recently published Big Book of Fashion Illustration.

His first non-autobiographical comic, Daemon Process, is best described as a supernatural tale of death, love, computers, and an ancient, evil book. He's also recently finished a large anthology entitled Real Magicalism which contains 12 stories from 14 contributors.