Contact Bruce at bruceanliker@yahoo.com
An avid car guy, Bruce has been drawing cars as long as he could hold a pencil. Yeah, he was that guy in school drawing cars in the margins of his notebook when he SHOULD have been paying attention to the teacher.
It wasn’t long before friends started asking for renderings of their own cars, and viola, not paying attention in class started to pay off!
Bruce came by his love of cars honestly--his dad once had a collection numbering over 30 cars from Jaguars and Mercedes to Studebakers, Nashes and Kaisers. Many family vacations were spent on car “adventures” of all types--whether it was attending the Concours de Elegance at Lake Forest, IL in the family’s Jaguar Mk V drophead coupe (affectionately nicknamed "John Henry") or a long trek to drag home the latest restoration project, family life seemed to revolve around antique automobiles and antique car clubs.
Dad's 1950 Jaguar MkV Drophead Coupe "John Henry"
Bruce’s love of Mopar muscle cars was ignited when he bought his first car at age 17, a ’70 Challenger SE. Since that first exposure to Mopar iron, many other Dodges and Plymouths have graced his garage, including the ’71 440+6 Road Runner he’s now owned for over 20 years. And the Road Runner now shares the garage with his step-daughters’ ’67 Mustang coupe.
After graduating from college with a commercial art degree, Bruce moved to North Carolina to try his hand at graphic design. In corporate and freelance employment, he developed a client list that includes Carolina Biological Supply Company, American Medical Response, Goodrich, Michelin, Krispy Kreme, Labcorp, Adam & Eve, the State of North Carolina, and many others.
But his passion for automotive art remains, from his detailed but whacky big-tired cartoons, “in motion” drag car illustrations, art for the FAST Racing Series t-shirts, or his loony Ed Roth-esque characters driving equally loony looking cars.
Bruce now makes his home in Graham, NC with his wife Bobbie and her two precocious daughters, Melony and Bailey.
