Mike Cavallaro is originally from New Jersey, where he attended the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon & Graphic Art. He began working in the New York comics and animation industries in the early 1990's. His clients include Valiant Comics, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Image Comics, BOOM! Studios, First Second Books, IDW Publishing, MTV Animation, Warner Brothers Animation, Cartoon Network and others.

Mike is a member of the online webcomics collective, ACT-I-VATE.com, where he contributes free, weekly webcomics including the superhero-sci-fi epic, "LOVIATHAN", and the true-life historic memoir, "Parade (with fireworks)".

"Parade" was nominated for a 2008 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for “Best Limited Series” and for the 2010 Young Adult Library Services Association “Great Graphic Novels for Teens” list.

Other graphic novels include "The Life And Times of Savior 28", a collaboration with writer J.M. DeMatteis, cited as "one of the finest superhero stories of the decade" by comics news site Newsarama.com.

"Foiled", the first graphic novel by legendary author Jane Yolen, is a Junior Library Guild selection, a 2011 Young Adult Library Services Association “Great Graphic Novel for Teens”, The Graphic Novel Reporter "Best of 2010" selection, and a 2011 Amelia Bloomer Project Recommended Reading List selection.

Mike is a member of the National Cartoonists Society and a founding member of Deep 6 Studios in Brooklyn, where he currently resides.