Mike Carroll Jr.

Born in San Diego, Mike Carroll Jr. [http://www.cestcop.com] is well known in the San Francisco Bay Area for his photo-realistic canvas art. "Santa Clara Valley in The Fabulous Fifties" [http://www.cestcop.com/SCV.htm] was a set of paintings by Carroll showing Santa Clara Valley , CA, now known as the Silicon Valley, from the late fifties to the early sixties. Some of this original work is on permanent display at the Mountain View, CA, public library [http://www.mountainview.gov/city_hall/library/default.asp] .

In 1985, Carroll began the comic strip, "Cest the Cop" [http://www.cestcop.com/cestin.htm] . A weekly series ran in the Santa Clara American, Penny Cest was a San Francisco police detective assigned to solve a string of murders. As the series progressed later into the online story, A Travel Through Time [http://www.cestcop.com/TheSagaContinues.htm] , Cest teamed up with "Cindy Taylor" [http://www.cestcop.com/cest8.htm] , a computer guru from the original series.