Key Personnel

Marc H. Miller, Founder and Director

Prior to founding Ephemera Press, Marc H. Miller worked as a museum consultant, writer and educator. Dr. Miller was project director for Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy a touring exhibition and catalogue sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities which traveled to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC, the New Orleans Museum of Art and other venues. Miller's publications include: Lafayette, Hero of Two Worlds: The Pageantry of His 1824 Farewell Tour of America, and Remembering the Future: The 1964 World's Fair. Miller has been a columnist for the East Village Eye, on the Board of Directors of the lower east side art gallery ABC No Rio, and an early principal in Art/ New York, an educational videotape series on contemporary art. From 1985-1991 Miller was curator at the Queens Museum of Art. He has a Ph.D. in art history from NYU's Institute of Fine Arts.

Miller's new website 98bowery.com presents a personalized chronicle of the art and music scene in New York from 1969-1989.

Tony Millionaire, Illustrator

Millionaire is the illustrator of both the Queens Jazz Trail Map and the Harlem Renaissance Map. Versatile and prolific, Millionaire is equally adept at producing detailed sketches of architecture and gentle caricatures. He has contributed to the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker and New York Magazine. Millionaire's weekly cartoon strip "Maakies" is carried in papers throughout the country including the New York Press, The Cleveland Scene, and Ft. Lauderdale's New Times. "Maakies" has also been featured as an animated segment on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" and a collected version of the strip has been published by Fantagraphics Books. Readers of the New York Press have voted Millionaire "Best Cartoonist" four out of the last five years.

James Romberger, Illustrator
Marguerite Van Cook, Illustrator

Romberger and Van Cook are the co-illustrators of the East Village Map. Romberger's pastels of East Village life have been shown at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Grace Borgenicht Gallery and are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum. Working with artist David Wojnarowicz, Romberger provided the illustrations for Seven Miles a Second, an acclaimed comic book autobiography written by Wojnarowicz shortly before his death from AIDS. Romberger's drawings have appeared in World War 3, Redtape, and Paradox Press' Big Books. Van Cook has worked as a musician (once opening for the Clash) and a rock journalist. Her paintings have been exhibited extensively in both New York and London. Van Cook's limited edition books are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. In the 1980s, Romberger and Van Cook ran the seminal East Village art gallery Ground Zero.

Kevin Hein, Art Director

Hein is the art director for the Harlem and East Village maps. After graduating from School of Visual Arts, Hein worked at Raw Magazine where he helped Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly produce the illustrated maps of Soho that initially helped finance the magazine. He has extensive credits as a freelance designer including an extended stay as the art director for a well-known weekly newspaper. Hein has long been a part of New York City's community of illustrators where he is respected for his knowledge of graphic design history as well as his savvy with new computer technology.

John Morton, Webmaster

Morton has designed websites for cultural institutions, book publishers, and various music industry ventures. Back in 1972, he founded the Electric Eels, now celebrated as Cleveland's first punk band. As a visual artist he has exhibited extensively in New York and most recently in Cuba.