Tim Foley was born in Flint, Michigan in 1962, spent most of his school years in the nearby town of Durand, Michigan, and attended college at the Kendall School of Art in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
His first job was working as a graphic designer/pasteup artist for a small family owned print shop in Flint in the summer of 1979, and spent most of the 80s working as a typesetter/graphic designer and eventually art director for a print shop with 3 locations in Grand Rapids. He set out on his own as a freelance illustrator in 1989, the same year his son Keenan was born.
Over the past three decades, clients have included magazines and newspapers around the world, including The Wall Street Journal, The American Bar Association, Highlights for Children, Legal Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Far Eastern Economic Review, Barrons, Cricket, New York Newsday, LA Weekly, over thirty years of illustrations for the fiction digest Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. Focus has switched to book publishing in recent years and clients have included MacMillan, First Second Books, Llewellyn Publishing, Skyhorse Publishing, Dover and over thirty titles in the best selling “Who Was” series from Penguin Books.
After working on the graphic novel adaptation of Dan Rather’s book “What Unites Us” (2022), an urge to draw more comics led to self publishing a daily webcomic “Mose Goes Walkies” about his dog Mose and their daily walking regimen, that is now in its third year of operations.