Ansis Purins is a cartoonist and illustrator, born to Latvian refugees in Boston, Massachusetts.

He attended the School of Museum of Fine Arts where his concentration was in illustration and printmaking. As a child he was deprived of Godzilla movies by his parents. Thus creating an unhealthy obsession with monsters and Japan, which continues to corrupt his soul to this day.

He loves Jamaican and punk music.

His influences include Gary Panter, Osamu Tezuka, Herge, Go Nagai, Sergio Aragones, his rusted Vespa motor scooter, and the essays on aesthetics by Lord Buxburry Nichols III.