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Born in Thailand and raised in Kenya for thirteen years, Boonthanakit describes a colorful pre-comics life that included professional ballet dancing and musical theater with the Kenya National Theatre, an off-Broadway acting role, and commercial illustration in New York. He came to comics only after winning a Draw-Off competition at the Atlanta Fantasy Fair, where Lamar Waldron recruited him; MICRA #1 was the first comics story he ever drew. He credits his theater and dance background with giving him strong grasp of anatomy, staging, and character expression.

A Nairobi-raised commercial artist who built his career doing storyboards for films (*Freejack*, Fried Green Tomatoes) and advertising (Kellogg's Tony the Tiger, Coca-Cola, U.S.M.C. commercials), Boonthanakit discusses his upcoming multi-part Wolverine story for Marvel Comics Presents, written by Dwight Zimmerman. He reflects on balancing the lucrative commercial market with his long-held desire to do mainstream comics, and expresses admiration for Crying Freeman and Modesty Blaise alongside Jim Lee's Marvel work.

Boonthanakit describes his background in commercial illustration and his transition into comics work, with particular focus on an upcoming Wolverine project and the technical challenges of adapting his commercial style to sequential storytelling.

DAK's editorial describes his initial skepticism about MICRA's commercial prospects — a female lead in a science-fiction comic — and explains why he agreed to publish it: confidence in writer Lamar Waldron's organizational track record and the stunning painted artwork of Ted Boonthanakit, for whom MICRA #1 was his first-ever comics story.