Max is currently a student at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (UPJ) as a history major, and has recently become the cartoonist for the school paper, The Advocate. Since he can remember, Max has been drawing and developing his style of cartoon and sketch art. When he was seven or eight, his Grandmother gave him his Uncle's old comic books of the "Peanuts," and he instantly fell in love with the strip. A lot like Schulz himself, Max has been inspired by the simple humor and innocence of the 50 year comic strip. In heart and spirit, Max will forever be a kid. The idea of "Max 'n Max" was developed after a conversation about the best dog names, one of which being Max. The model of the dog Max was his late beagle Bagel, whom will be missed and forever remembered in the strip.

Max is currently in the process of learning banjo, harmonica, and keyboard. He is a lover of music and has begun collecting Frank Sinatra records (do not slander Sinatra in his presence).

For five years now, Max has been a volunteer at the Oliver Miller Homestead, a Whiskey Rebellion landmark and reenactment site.

Max is a fervid believer in "carpe diem" and, to borrow a phrase from Peter Pan, believes that "To live would be an awfully big adventure." To quote Thoreau: "I went to the woods because I had wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life, and not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived."